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MIARD Talks: The Dreamer and the Dreamed + Broken Nature

April 13 and May 25 For the 2023 guest sessions organized by Andrea Bagnato within the Critical Strategies course, Danny Giles (course director Master Fine Arts) and Sharmyn Cruz Rivera (coordinator of theory at the Willem de Kooning Academy) will present their joint artistic research project on Josephine Baker and…

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MIARD Talks FOUR: Mark Wigley

In a workshop with students of the Master Interior Architecture: Research + Design, Mark Wigley will discuss the contemporary relevance of Constant’s vision of networks – and the long life of the New Babylon project.    The workshops are part of a larger program organized by Kunstinstituut Melly…

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MIARD TALKS | THREE: Engagement

For the latest iteration of MIARD TALKS – a lecture series organized by Andrea Bagnato – three guests were invited to present their recent work to first-year students. The goal of this session was to think together about the ways designers and architects can engage with the conditions around them…

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MIARD TALKS | TWO: Agency

MIARD TALKS | TWO: Agency October 29, 2020 14:00 – 17:30 CET In the Spring 2020 major protests, spurred by racist killing at the hands of US police officers, took North America and Europe by storm. Compared to previous BLM actions, public consensus has now significantly broadened, and…

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MIARD TALKS | ONE: Natures

On May 7, 2020, MIARD invited three leading practices – Formafantasma, Cooking Sections, and Counterspace – to take part in an online symposium with the first year students. Each of the three was asked to present a recent project, after which the students had the opportunity to engage in a…

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Talk: Jane Rendell (postponed)

Site-Writing: A Critical Spatial Practice Jane Rendell (BSc, DipArch, MSc, PhD) is Professor of Critical Spatial Practice at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where she co-initiated the MA Situated Practice and supervises MA and PhD projects. Jane has introduced concepts of ‘critical spatial practice’ and ‘site-writing’ through her authored books: The Architecture of Psychoanalysis (2017), Silver (2016), Site-Writing (2010), Art…

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Talk: Space Popular

The Global Home, 18:30, Wijnhaven 61, 3011 WJ Rotterdam. Space Popular develops research and architecture across the physical and virtual realms. In this lecture they will present their work concerning architectural issues of value, communication, representation and interaction in the age of the virtual. Founders & Directors Lara Lesmes and…

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Talk & Studio Visit: Alessandro Bava

Alessandro Bava is an architect and writer based in Naples, Italy and London, UK. He runs a studio in Naples making exhibitions, installations, interiors and architecture projects. From the academic year 2019-2020 Bava teaches a history and theory of architecture course at the postgraduate master B-PRO at UCL Bartlett in…

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Talk: Shumi Bose: Showing and Telling

Shumi Bose is a teacher, curator and editor based in London. She is Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of Contextual Studies in Architecture at Central Saint Martins in London. She is also a curator of exhibitions at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). In 2017, Shumi curated Pablo Bronstein: Conservatism, or The Long Reign of Pseudo Georgian Architecture at the RIBA. With Finn…

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Talk: Laura Herman

Laura Herman is a curator and writer whose work focuses on spatial infrastructure, organisational models, and affective architectures. She is currently a curator at La Loge, a space in Brussels dedicated to contemporary art, architecture, and theory. Laura graduated from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College in New York. She regularly writes for Mousse, Frieze, Spike and other magazines, and has recently co-curated the…

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Talk: Cooking Sections

Performative Lecture: Cooking Sections on the Geopolitics of Food Wednesday 7 March, 18:00, Ground Floor atrium, Piet Zwart Institute, Wijnhaven 61, 3011 WJ Rotterdam Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe are a duo of spatial practitioners based in London. Cooking Sections was born to explore the systems that organize…

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Talk: Federico Martelli

The Master of Interior Architecture: Research + Design is pleased to announce a new lecture for its 2018 public programme. Federico Martelli is a researcher and exhibition designer at AMO/OMA in Rotterdam, where he led the design of Elements of Architecture at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, and more recently of Stedelijk…

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Talk: Simone C. Niquille

  The Master of Interior Architecture: Research + Design is pleased to announce a new lecture for its 2018 public programme. Simone C. Niquille is a Swiss designer and researcher living in the Netherlands. Her studio Technoflesh investigates the representation of identity without a body, the digitisation of biomass, and the increasingly omnipresent optic gaze of everyday objects.

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Talk: Hilary Sample

We are delighted to announce the first lecture of the new public programme for 2018. Hilary Sample is an award-winning architect and cofounder of MOS Architects, an architecture firm based in New York City. MOS won the MoMA PS1 competition in 2009, and have subsequently built…

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Talk: Suzie Attiwill, Re-Posing ‘Interior’:?Interior

Susie Attiwill will present research where questions of interior and interiority are posed in relation to contemporary conditions of living, inhabitation, subjectivity and pedagogy through: a practice of designing with a curatorial inflection attending to arrangements (and rearrangements) of spatial, temporal and material relations; a practice of supervising PhD creative practice…

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Talk: Point Supreme, Rooms and Cities

Point Supreme’s stubborn commitment to reality ends up in the production of accurate and constantly updated lists of things including all sort of elements: islands, chairs, fruits, animals and mountains. These visual lists operate at all scales, making no difference between rooms and cities, trees and forests, stones and mountain ranges.

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Talk: Tamar Shafrir, Matter in Flux

Matter in Flux: An Alternate Narrative of Design, Tamar Shafrir From the first written records of design analysis until the recent past, the discussion of design has revolved around the relationship of form, function, and interpreted meaning. Meanwhile, material was seen as something neutral that merely awaited the application of a…

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Talk: Koen Deprez, Fictions and Invisibles

Talk by Koen Deprez, A Few Words about Fictions and Invisibles in my Architecture Work Koen Deprez (Kortrijk, 1961) graduated in 1984, from what was then the St. Lukas School of Art and Architecture in Brussels. He subsequently collaborated with OMA (Rotterdam) and Studio Alchimia (Milan) and, enriched by these academic…

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Talk: Ernst van der Hoeven, MacGuffin – Life of Things

A lecture about making, personal stories, unknown relationships, unexpected experts, serious joy. Ernst van der Hoeven is an art historian, landscape artist and publisher. In 2002 he established EVDH, studio for the urban landscape. With his Amsterdam based studio he designs landscapes, curates exhibitions and makes works of art. In 2008 he co-founded…

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Talk: Carolyn Strauss, Slow Reading

The lecture Slow Reading a Complex, Interdependent World will introduce an expanded field of inquiry and experimentation that is the work of Slow Research Lab, a multidisciplinary research platform based in the Netherlands.  The work presented – traversing the fields of architecture, art, material research, and urban design – offers alternative visions…

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Talk: Toon Koehorst, Moving Places

Information machines and the rhetorics of space and page. An exploration of news set design, pope-mobiles through the ages, (architecture) books and how all of these are relevant to exhibition design. Toon Koehorst is partner of Koehorst in ’t Veld, an editorial design practice that concerns itself with exhibits. Koehorst in ’t…

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Talk: Niels Schrader, How to Measure Data Relevance

In his work, Schrader plays the role of both a mediator and a designer. He considers communication to be an interactive process that requires participation through questioning. Schrader’s projects frequently challenge the audience to experience the very means of communication by providing insights into the complex methods of information exchange.

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Talk: Jeroen Barendse, LUST

LUST is a multidisciplinary graphic design practice established in 1996 by Jeroen Barendse, Thomas Castro, and Dimitri Nieuwenhuizen, based in The Hague, Netherlands. LUST works in a broad spectrum of media including traditional printwork and book design, abstract cartography and data-visualisations, new media and interactive installations, and architectural graphics. Moreover, LUST is deeply interested…

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Talk: Penny Sparke, Californian Modern 1945 – 1970, Nature Inside and Out

The lecture addresses a case-study that will appear in Penny Sparke’s new book ‘Nature Inside: Plants and Flowers in Modern Interiors’. The focus is on the ways in which plants were used in sunny post-war California to blur the boundaries between the interior and exterior spaces of many of the innovative modern homes…

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Talk: Erik Rietveld, Affordances & Architecture

Dr. Erik Rietveld is a Senior Researcher at the University of Amsterdam (AMC/Department of Philosophy/ILLC/Brain & Cognition) and a Founding Partner of RAAAF [Rietveld Architecture-Art-Affordances]. RAAAF makes site-specific work at the crossroads of art, architecture and philosophy. Erik Rietveld was a Fellow in Philosophy at Harvard University and a Visiting Scholar…

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Talk: NOMAN Studio

On Friday February 19, NOMAN will give a public talk and have design critiques at our department. The lecture and design critiques are part of the Thematic Design Project of trimester 2. NOMAN studio was founded in 2011 to create a platform of common interest for fashion designer Selina Parr and…

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Talk: Ed van Hinte, Living Light

In his talk, Ed van Hinte will explain principles of lightweight design and the reasons behind them. He will show what thinking in lightweight structures may imply for building and architecture with an extra focus on interior design. The most important question: how to circumvent architectural conventions. Ed van Hinte…

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Talk: Khurtova / Bourlanges

Marie Ilse Bourlanges and Elena Khurtova will present their practice as a visual artists duo, zooming into various projects and processes. They will also introduce their current research, entitled “The Sky is on the Earth”, subject of a residency at Atelier Holsboer in Paris, with the support of the Mondriaan…

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Talk: Hilbrand Wanders, Neutelings Riedijk Architects

Public Interiors and Design Strategies by architect Hilbrand Wanders of the international award-winning office Neutelings Riedijk Architects. Neutelings Riedijk Architects is specialized in cultural buildings. The last ten years several Museums, Concert halls and Libraries has been designed within the office. In the designs of Neutelings Riedijk for public buildings the urban…

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Talk: Brenden Cormier, City Life Takes Place Inside

Talk: ‘City Life Takes Place Inside’ by Brendan Cormier A talk by Brendan Cormier from Volume Magazine, Rotterdam. The lecture will be held in the realm of the history and theory module at MIARD. Chair: Füsun Türetken, MIARD tutor. Brendan Cormier will talk about his essay, ‘City Planning the Interior’ and…

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Talk: Tanja Smeets, Invade Spaces

In the work of Tanja Smeets intangible, furtive growth processes play a prominent role. Her amorphous sculptures nestle in places where they don’t belong. She has a distinct preference for industrial materials or goods from daily life: lentils, dried beans, polystyrene balls with a sand coating, foam strings, concrete spacers, tied up…

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workshop with T.J. DEMOS: RADICAL FUTURISMS

WORKSHOP WITH TJ DEMOS FOR MASTER STUDENTS OF PIET ZWART INSTITUTE AND 4TH YEARS BACHELOR STUDENTS OF WILLEM DE KOONING ACADEMY Is all coming to an end – ecosystems, democracies, and civilization as we know it? Art historian and cultural critic T.J. Demos proposes strategies of temporal re-orientation towards the…

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Professional Practices Program

The Piet Zwart Institute Masters courses offer a program intended to provide year-2 students with practical knowledge for their current and future professional practices. Each month, we’ll offer workshops that provide resources for transitioning from school to the professional realm and insights into practical issues faced by designers and artists.

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Terraria Subterraneus

‘Terraria Subterraneus’ is a collection of terraria that encourage building new relationships with subterranean ecosystems. The world‘s largest land reclamation project, Flevoland, acted as the main context of investigation and is often illustrated as the ultimate terrarium. A human attempt to recreate a ‘natural’ environment where flora, fauna and…

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Collective periscope

Pipes are used in agricultural and urban systems for the flow of water. I’m bringing them from the underground to the surface to talk about the community of Oosterwold and its dynamics when it comes to building  public space, roads and water systems and the conflicts they entail. Pipes become…

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The Master Interior Architecture: Research + Design, MIARD at the Piet Zwart Institute is a post-graduate international program that is part of the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. MIARD is a nationally accredited course with a focus on practice-based research and critical spatial strategies in the field of interior…

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← → ↔ archive Spatial practice binds the collection. Projects are rooted in current issues; climate crisis, social justice, artificial intelligence, post-colonial practice, materialism, gender politics, global health, and post-humanism, to name a few. The search portal gives…

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Multiple Media Lecture Series: DATA

Data can serve to understand our society, it makes the invisible visible and diffuses it. We can perceive data as a new material, which we can accept, reject or cope with. Can we imagine life without data? The Multiple Media lecture series 2021 is led by Daphne Heemkerk…

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Hands in the deep ground

Focusing on the human-made island Marker Wadden, we were fascinated by the aspect that they are built out of materials from many places accumulated due to different forces over time. At this present moment, you can step on dry ground because humans have influenced the way of deposition of sediments.

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Multiple Media Lecture Series

As part of the Multiple Media focus of MIARD and to deepen the discourse on media, we are pleased to introduce a series of annual lectures by Dr. Ephraim Joris. Lecture I: Representation of Space on March 12, 6pm We will look at space as defined by the empiricist; as…

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Ariadne & the mythical grid

Ariadne, a young interior designer, is guiding us in a virtual journey while she narrates her personal story. She talks about how designing and experiencing (interior) spaces has changed in the digital era that we live. The whole story is plotted on the axis of the mythical grid, this powerful…

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Shallow Density

This study was initially inspired by the film Stalker by Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky. I was attracted by the uncanny and magical qualities of “The Zone” – It spoke to a constant and ungraspable shift between the material and immaterial. Logical and illogical experience seemed to exist very near…

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Interstices

I started from a poem by Fernando Pessoa that does not speak about art or architecture, that uses the term interstices to talk about God and esotericism. It is interesting to observe how different disciplines can overlap and merge. This is what I tried to do, describing space with poetry…

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Interior Portraits Vol II: Sonneveld

The Sonneveld House in Rotterdam is one of the supreme achievements of Nieuwe Bouwen, the Dutch branch of the International School of Modernism.  As Modern architecture widely explored the relation between interior and exterior, I approached the Camera Obscura technique in order to stress this relation by visually merging…

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Excursion: The Transdisciplinary Studio, Berlin

The international excursion is part of the current project theme at MIARD titled Spaces of Labor, The Transdisciplinary Studio. The trip is part of the theory seminars with Andrea Bagnato and Füsun Türetken. Based on our reflections on contemporary spaces of creative (studio) work and their settings, i.e. architecture offices,…

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The New Union

In this project the trade union is updated to fit the freelancers’ need for a collective physical space to meet face to face, regroup and regain the sense of community. Trade unions have historically been ways of collectivizing and generating political action for the well being of workers. Inspired by…

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Mini Symposium: Speak About What You Know, Draw What You Cannot Speak About Just Yet

Piet Zwart Institute, Master of Interior Architecture and Retail Design [MIARD] invites you to our mini symposium: Speak about what you know; Draw what you cannot speak about just yet. Join us for a conversation with Hetty Berens, Riet Eeckhout, Mariabruna Fabrizi and Esjieun Kim. The public talks will be moderated…

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Book Launch: Frame Publishers, Masterclass

Frame’s latest book explores what future students can expect from leading graduate schools across the globe and discover what opportunities await them. On Friday 7 November, the event will explore the world of interior design, with each speaker sharing insight in their world of interior design. Alex Suarez – course director…

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