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​For the Graduation Show 2016 at the Design Academy in Eindhoven 10 graduating students were chosen to be interviewed about their final projects. The selected students all showed a high level of research with varying approaches and methods. The stories can be listened to as a podcast and as an audio tour.

Interviews Gert Staal
Editor in chief Jennifer Pettersson
Editing Jennifer Pettersson & René van Es
Music Bart Vermeulen and others
Coordination Olle Lundin & Liesbeth Fit
Commissioned by The Knowledge Circle of the Design Academy Eindhoven

Wouter Corvers

Wouter Corvers

Scale 1:1.16

If you are an average length person, you probably walk through life not noticing how amazingly well public space fits you. Wouter covers confronts us with the standardised solutions that hinders diversity in the public space domain through his basic, but genius intervention. More

Gali Blay

Gali Blay

A journey through Panicutopia

Gali Blay comes from Israel and started to study the Iron Dome, a military defense system that intercepts rockets from outside the country. During her research Blay realized that the power of the Iron Dome manifests itself a lot through the believe in it which reinforces the current political strategy. Blay questions this by handing us a scenario of the future that takes this stance further. More

Henrique Nascimento

Henrique Nascimento

Guidelines to the human factor

Henrique Nascimento proposes a new kind of working. Robots and humans interacting through an intricate language-based production cycle. More

Olle Lundin

Olle Lundin

Body behavior

How does high fashion advertising present our bodies? The fashion world has an idea of itself to be innovative, always on the edge of what is coming, Olle Lundin is opening up a discussion about stereotypes in fashion. More

Jing He

Jing He

Tulip Pyramid

The tulip vase is a 17th-century Dutch invention. However, its form, motifs and material all imitate Chinese porcelain pagodas. Jing He uses this history in ‘Tulip Pyramid’ to explore her identity as a Chinese designer. She also uses the current copy culture in China. In this context, what does it mean to be original? Can copying also be creative? To try and find answers, she continues the process of replicating and transforming. More

Maxime Benvenuto

Maxime Benvenuto

The ministry of humanism

Designing lamps and couches, or designing peace and justice? Maxime Benvenuto dived into the systems that define the work towards peace in the United Nations and designed a new law! More

Isabel Mager

Isabel Mager

Design is / as war

What are the similarities between the mechanisms of war and design? Isabel Mager invites us to look beyond the beautiful objects and ask questions about labour conditions and production methods. Mager also proposes design as a tool to change destructive ways to produce objects and create a better future. More

Chen Jhen

Chen Jhen

The island of strangers

When Chen Jhen came to the Netherlands she started to question her Taiwanese identity. Through her research into 3 different objects (graduation photos, statues and palmtrees) she shows the complex Taiwanese history and the dilemmas of its people. More

Anastasia Kubrak

Anastasia Kubrak

A guide to satellite surveillance

Who owns the information that satellites produce? Can we trust the information or the people and institutions claiming it’s authenticity? Kubrak elaborates on why we should be concerned who produces our information and where it ends up. More

Naama Agassi

Naama Agassi

A calendar of Affects

How come we don’t have a wider perspective on what time is in todays society? Naama Agassi shows us different ways to read and experience time. More