Design Academy Eindhoven
Design Academy Eindhoven is one of the most creative design institutes, it is located in Eindhoven in the Netherlands.
The invisible studio is one of the BA programs that DAE currently offers and the introduction of the studio is as below.
- In The Invisible Studio, we work with the invisible processes behind the material world, from manufacturing, prototyping, tools, resources, economics, and policymaking to material science, engineering, particle physics, living, self-maintaining systems and self-designing potentialities.
We also work with the invisible processes behind creativity and innovation, using body consciousness and practicing mindfulness. Through the observation of visible patterns we study symbols, images, myths, archetypes and eschatologies.
Our inspirations are systems and ecological design, lo-fi theory and permaculture principles. We prototype and develop production tools. We are open to feedback in every phase of the process. We constantly exercise improvisational skills to help reframe mindsets. Transdisciplinarity and biodiversity are our sources as well as our aims.
Design practice has reoriented. Traditionally, design was linked to objects and to technological change, to the individual, to the market and to being carried out by experts. But over the last decade it has turned towards a user-centred approach – situated, interactive, collaborative, participatory, focused on the production of human experience and life itself.
Particles are a useful metaphor to help us understand how this shift affects our understanding of ourselves as designers. Invisible to the human eye, particles constitute the continuum of our reality: light, the realms of the subatomic, atoms and molecules, proteins, crystals, sand. Deeply interconnected, they mutually interfere, manifesting a quality in space, forming complex systems and displaying swarm behaviour.
As designers, we are also agents of these energies – part of these invisible patterns at work, influenced by and influencing each other and the world around us. Developing an awareness of this and using it to realise our own visions, prevents us from being trapped by our ego and allows us to create in union with the anima mundi. By listening to and observing our surroundings, we place ourselves in the service of collectivity.
Reference : Design Academy Eindhoven 2021