Design Academy Eindhoven, Social Design MA
PROJECTS | 2021
Dirty Playground
Manuel Steitz, Coltrane Mcdowell, Serina Tarkhanian
The project reimagines playgrounds as a public space to curate a multi-generational community holobiont. Over time, the playground soil becomes microbially diverse.
Finalist Team
Bacterial Skin Carrier
Josephine de Fijter
Bacterial Skin Carrier uses the waste from local kombucha growers to create a biofilm with binding properties that are non-irritating, non-toxic, edible, biodegradable, and skin safe. This bacterial, engineered tissue can be used as a carrier for probiotic skincare.
Instructors - 2021
Maartje Dros and Eric Klarenbeek
Maartje Dros (right, https://www.maartjedros.nl/) and Eric Klarenbeek (https://www.ericklarenbeek.com/) form a designer duo combine social design with technology. Their aim is to challenge and explore the use of space by connecting history, crafts and new technologies in archetypical objects to invite and evoke new use of space. Eric Klarenbeek graduated in 2003 at DAE. Since then he has designed for clients such as Droog Design, Marcel Wanders's Moooi, Lidewij Edelkoort, Makkink Bey, Eneco and the Ministry of the Netherlands. He is founder of the ArTechLab at the AKI ArtEZ art academy. His projects have been exhibited and published extensively.
Maartje Dros, also a graduate of DAE, acts on the use and dynamics on the periphery of space and borders. It forms the base of her work that explores possibilities on use of space and our common grounds. The outcomes requests collaboration between user and space rather than it is giving stage to a sole object. Not only the hardware of a city is being questioned and integrated her designs, the physical outcome can be seen as an expression of social structures.
Dros and Klarenbeek are both tutors at the Social Design MA at DAE and run the BioLab at the school.
Marina Otero Verzier
Marina Otero Verzier is an architect based in Rotterdam. She is Director of Research at Het Nieuwe Instituut (HNI) and department head of the Social Design MA at Design Academy Eindhoven. At HNI, Otero works to give visibility to research projects, practices, and initiatives that depart from established modes of thinking. Examples include Automated Landscapes (focusing on emerging architectures of automated labour) and BURN-OUT. Exhaustion on a planetary scale (instigating other forms of coexistence and care for multispecies, collective bodies). She was previously Director of Global Network Programming at Studio-X in New York. Otero was a member of the Artistic Team for Manifesta 13, and Curator of WORK, BODY, LEISURE, the Dutch Pavilion at the 16th Venice International Architecture Biennale in 2018. With the After Belonging Agency, she was Chief Curator of the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2016. She studied at TU Delft and ETSA Madrid and Columbia University GSAPP. In 2016, Otero received her PhD at ETSA Madrid.