3
—Hélène Aarts is working as a visual artist and assistant professor
in drawing at the faculty of The Built Environment at Eindhoven Uni-
versity of Technology (TUE). She also developed new drawing cur-
ricula for the faculty of ‘Industrial Design’ at TUE and before she
was assistant professor at the faculty of Industrial Design at Delft
University of Technology. In drawing classes, in recent papers and
in lectures she focuses on idea generation, experiencing space
and research by drawing.
—Sarah Westphal is a visual artist based in Belgium and Germany.
In her multidisciplinary work, including installation, photography
and sculpture, sheexamines the historyofa placeand takesas her
point of departure mankind’s impact on his or her surroundings to
materialize the phenomenon of memory.
What the body does remember
How to become …?
Hélène Aarts / Sarah Westphal
Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE) /
Studio Sarah Westphal
Harry Potter, Superman, Wonder Woman & co; What they all have
in common is their special abilities to overcome struggles and
grow through given challenges in life. The super heroes do this by
invisibility, elasticity, transformation, time travel, duplication,
changing size, telepathy, speed, flight, high sensitivity, special
healing abilities, to rise from the ashes. Resilience is that quality
which allows people to be knocked down and come back stronger
than ever. This seems even more necessary in these times, where
the world is shocked by manifold sources of violence, social con-
flicts and natural disasters. The complexity and high speed of
change confronts uswith our responsibility how tocopewith this.
In the workshop we will step away from measurable plans and
models. Instead, we will bring Resilience to a personal level,
searching for how much you can handle and where is your break-
ing point. How much resistance do you have and how much coun-
ter-activity can you develop? And is this resistance functional,
helpful or just counteracting? Resisting a virus is functional. But
also ‘breaking’ and getting fever builds up resistance and thus in-
creases resilience. We will work with an old object that has sur-
vived time and is specially chosen by you. By means of different
media such as
drawing, photography, film
and
installation,
we will
search for the identity of the object and its user. How does it
change its character in relationship to you and to the other (ob-
jects) in the group? Which dynamics can we develop by exchang-
ing our thoughts and come to a co-creation?
01
WORKSHOPS AND LECTURES
MASTERS
architecture
interior architecture
heritage studies
product development
urbanism and spatial planning
