Timeline

Sunday, 6 Nov

17.25h Arrival of Design Academy Eindhoven students and team

20.00h Welcome dinner for Design Academy Eindhoven students and tutors

Monday, 7 Nov

10.00h, Visit to Ethnographic Open-Air Museum of Latvia

15.00h, Riga Bourse worklab, discussions with craftsmen, notes on first impressions, generating of first ideas

Tuesday, 8 Nov

10.00h-16.00h, Workshop at Riga Bourse worklab

16.00h-17.30h, daily review and discussions with tutors

18.00h, Museum of Decorative Arts and Design:

Lecture by Rihards Funts, designer, partner at the Latvian design studio Rijada (LV)

‘As a matter of craft …‘ , lecture by Daphnee Lanternier, designer at Studio Makkink-Bey (NL)

19.00h PechaKucha Night, traditional crafts of different countries worldwide presented by the Design Academy Eindhoven

Wednesday, 9 Nov

10.00h-16.00h, Workshop at Riga Bourse worklab

16.00h-17.30h, daily review and discussions with tutors

18.00h, Art Museum Riga Bourse atrium:

‘Drawn from Clay‘ Lecture by Lonny van Ryswyck, designer, partner at Atelier NL (NL), part of the team of Master Department Social Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven.

‘Industrious/Artefacts‘, Lecture by Rianne Makkink, architect and designer, partner at the internationally renown Dutch design office Studio Makkink-Bey (NL), part of the team of Master Department Social Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven.

Thursday, 10 Nov

10.00h-16.00h, Workshop at Riga Bourse worklab

16.00h-17.30h, daily review and discussions with tutors

18.00h, Art Museum Riga Bourse atrium:

‘New definitions of design‘, lecture by Jan Boelen, critic and curator of contemporary art and design, head of the Master Department Social Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven and founder and director of the Art Museum Z33 (Kunstcentrum Z33) in Hasselt, Belgium.

Friday, 11 Nov

10.00h-18.00h, Workshop at Riga Bourse worklab, finalizing design products, graphic material and work models.