tuesday
14.02
Mathijs Provoost
wednesday
15.02
Alexandra Deschamps
Sonsino
Designing for others
We live in a society that is very cen-
tered on user needs, but a particular
user. Alexandra will talk about design-
ing for society and culture and the role
a designer needs to take in a space
that is more and more challenging and
requires a real sense of entrepreneur-
ship.
thursday
16.02
Dries Rodet &
CharlotteTruwant
Space & Place
The young Swiss/Belgian office(s)
Charlotte Truwant & Dries Rodet archi-
tects share an important part of their
work. Although not all the projects are
the fruit of a reciprocal collaboration,
they have a common interest and
responsibility to define their position
as architects operating in a fragile and
complex environment.
Both are continuously investigating
the confrontation between the build-
ing/the object and its specific sur-
roundings. Their projects are abstract
spatial ideas that crystallize as com-
pact architectural objects in dialogue
with their environment. They believe
that architecture is no longer the fore-
ground and landscape the back-
ground, but both are continuously
searching for a possible equilibrium.
They will present projects that attempt
to formalize the encounter between
the universal and the specific, the
abstract and the specific, space and
place.
friday
17.02
Stefano Mirti &
Fosca Salvi
Teaching
in the age of Instagram
In our current world, to know how a
digital community works it is quite an
interesting skill / knowledge. Dynam-
ics, tacit and explicit hierarchies, con-
tent production, relational issues…
...design in the age of social media, or
better: teaching in the age of Insta-
gram.
We will present our experience with
digital communities and MOOCs (mas-
sive on-line open courses). Online
courses born as experiments in which
teachers together with the students
wanted to learn how to conceive and
develop a course only using social
media and digital tools.
LEMI: Nonverbal stories
of Long-Distance
relationships
Nonverbal communication (NVC) is the
richest way for people to emotionally
express themselves. However, in com-
puter-mediated communication (CMC)
NVC is underused. People in long-dis-
tance relationships (LDRs) already
have adaptive behaviour through
CMC. What if you don’t have a story to
tell? While CMC is considered to be
less ideal, LDRs still have a tendency to
disclose more intimacy, closeness and
relatedness to each other than non-
LDRs. As CMC has been mainly de-
signed for business purposes, there is
an opportunity to target relatedness
experiences and a challenge to find
inter-relatedness of the daily activities
of LDRs while living in displacement.
CMC can empower people to possible
new communication experiences rath-
er than providing simulations of actual
reality or just being mobile devices on
an experiential level. The presentation
includes a broad range of meaningful
experiences and stories, achieved via
adaptations to nonverbal CMC, about
feeling related at a distance.
Lunch
lectures
aula
"Dieperik"
12.30 –
13.00
