PCA's 4th Edition of About *Design*
Join us for the 4th edition of About *Design* that will be held on Thursday and Friday, March 17th and 18th.
Discover and discuss what *Design* could be. A collaboration between Communication Design, Interior Design, Fashion Design and Design for Social Impact departments.The talks and presentations are open to everyone – on campus and online.
The exhibition Material Research will open on Friday, March 18th, and stay on display until Monday April 4th.
Responsible *Design*
Recycled Paper Presentation by Fedrigoni
Fedrigoni produces and sells special papers for packaging and graphics, and premium solutions for the world of self-adhesives, so as to support and strengthen brands and their clients’ creativity. Their story of hard work and a passion for paper is a story they share with Fabriano. It has taught them to focus on quality and innovation to be able to serve all their clients, starting with extraordinary artists such as Michelangelo, Raffaello, Beethoven and Francis Bacon.
During the presentation Fedrigoni will introduce their collection of recycled papers.
Gallery
Thursday March 17th
12pm
Spatial *Design*
Sustainable Beauty
Ophélie Herranz and Paul Galindo
Ophélie Herranz and Paul Galindo practice in Madrid under the name of NOMOS, after working for 10 years as PYO.
Together with Katrien Vertenten and Lucas Camponovo, they run a two-headed studio, based in Geneva and Madrid. They work on projects of all scales, from furniture to masterplanning, with great interest in cultural context and the environment. Using drawing primarily to shape their ideas, they explore new ways of creating community through buildings that seek opportunities within constraints. They approach each project with enthusiasm, care and curiosity; always striving for sustainable beauty.
NOMOS has been shortlisted for the 2020 AR Emerging Architecture awards and longlisted as Emerging interior design studio of the year at Dezeen Awards 2020.
With their project “La Nave” in Madrid, they have won the Dezeen Award 2020 in the apartment interior category and the FAD Opinion Award 2020 for Interior Design. “La Nave” is also a finalist project at Simon Architecture Prize 2020. “Bombar” in Geneva has been longlisted in the restaurant interior category at Dezeen Awards 2020 and nominated at Simon Architecture Prize 2020. Their medical center in Kaya in Burkina Faso has won the Premio COAM 2019 for Exemplary initiatives in relation to architecture and has been nominated for 2019 Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Recently their project ‘El Garaje’ won the AR House Award 2021.
ONLINE and room 406
Thursday March 17th
1pm
Zoom ID: 739 416 5220
Password: 642698
Responsible *Design*
Eco-materials from Recycled Waste
Material Presentation by Marius Hamelot – SAS Minimum / Le Pavé®
Le Pavé® from SAS Minimum was instigated by a team of people committed to contributing to a desirable future, using plastic waste as a resource to produce sustainable and sensible materials, with multiple applications. SAS Minimum is committed to bringing people together, testing materials destined to be thrown away to imagine the eco-materials of tomorrow. As part of the transition to a circular economy, determined to change our perception of waste, SAS minimum collaborates with local actors willing to adopt and promote more responsible practices, partnering with designers, architects, cooperatives, associations and schools to create the next generation of sustainable products.
A range of sample materials will be introduced during the presentation.
Gallery
Thursday March 17th
2.30pm
Fashion *Design*
Fashion, Nature, and ‘New’ Materials in an Ever Changing World
Sho Konishi
Sho Konishi is a fashion designer living and working in New York. He has a Master of Fine Arts in Fashion Design from PARSONS Fashion Design and Society (2019 Honors),Master of Arts in Fashion Design from Paris College of Art Haute Technology and Haute Couture Fashion Design (2017 Honors) and a Bachelor of Arts from Tokyo Mode Gakuen College of Fashion and Design (2015 Honors). His ideology of fashion is that fashion design is a tangible representation of human existence. He uses clothes as a way to design life.
ONLINE and room 304
Friday March 18th
12pm
Zoom ID: 995 2451 0141
Password: L45dni
Graphic *Design*
Novo Typo Offgrid: a DIY Proposal for Creating a Self-sufficient Graphic Design Studio
Mark van Wageningen
Based on the core idea that a typographic design studio that designs and produces its own letters should also be able to make its own ink and paper, Novo Typo Offgrid will show how we can produce our own locally sourced paper and plant-based inks, in order to create our own tools and methods. On the background of this exercise lies the need to face a global overly complex system of production, supply chains and restrictive industrial standards, that have shown their dangerous disruptive effects during the pandemic.
By independently selecting the raw materials for the production of paper and ink, a new and bespoke standard is defined. In the process, the designer and the artisan should be one and the same person, free to choose how to produce and visualize their designs, thereby regaining control over their end product.
The entire project is documented in the book Novo Typo Offgrid.
Mark van Wageningen is the founder of Novo Typo, a typographic design studio / font foundry based in Amsterdam. As a self-proclaimed ambassador of multi-colored typography, van Wageningen lectures at a number of international design conferences and festivals. Before Novo Typo Offgrid, Mark van Wageningen published Typewood, Novo Typo Color Book and Type and Color which received several international design awards.
ONLINE and Gallery
Friday March 18th
1pm
Zoom ID: 513 136 3082
Password: 155722
Color System *Design*
Workshop Novo Typo Color Ink: a DIY proposal for Creating a new colorsystem
with Mark van Wageningen
During this workshop we will design and print a new color harmony model based on plant sourced pigments such as Indigo, Madder or Saffron. We will make our own ink based on the three primary colors Red Yellow Blue and define and produce a new harmony model for printed context (forget CMYK, forget Pantone… ). This Do-It-Yourself workshop is open for anyone who is in for some serious experimenting with colored ink and is not scared for getting your hands dirty. Off grid towels are provided and Amsterdam Pulp Soap will be available afterwards. You are invited!
Mark van Wageningen is the founder of Novo Typo, a typographic design studio / font foundry based in Amsterdam. As a self-proclaimed ambassador of multi-colored typography, van Wageningen lectures on the work of Novo Typo at a number of international design conferences and festivals. Before Novo Typo Offgrid, Mark van Wageningen published Typewood, Novo Typo Color Book and Type and Color which received several international design awards.
Printmaking Lab
Room -108
Friday March 18th
2pm—5pm
Material Research
An exhibition featuring a selection of innovative and sustainably conscious materials, from fabrics to papers to building materials, extracts from the Tissuthèque and Materials’ Libary, student research and ongoing projects, as well as Design for Social Impact students’ Manifesto for responsible design and the results from the NovoTypo workshop.
Gallery
Friday March 18th – Monday April 4th
Vernissage Friday March 18th at 5.30pm