Category Archives: Lecture Series

Last Friday we had the pleasure of hosting the Winter Lecture Series 2014 with Ronen Kadushin.

Ronen Kadushin is a designer and also a design educator living in Berlin since 2005. He taught furniture design and design creativity courses at leading Israeli and European design academies since 1993. In 2004 Kadushin developed the Open Design concept, where the designs of his products can be downloaded, copied, modified and produced, much as in Open Source software.

Based on this concept, he formed Open Design, a design and production company for furniture, lighting and accessories which are produced in Berlin and sold in Europe and the USA. Open Design products are regularly presented in solo and group exhibitions world wide, and published in professional literature. Kadushin is teaching Open design courses in universities and speaks at conferences. Kadushin is the author of the Open Design Manifesto.

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Thursday 6th of February we had the pleasure of hosting the Winter Lecture Series 2014 with Ethel Baraona.

Critic, writer and curator. Co-founder of the independent publishing house dpr-barcelona and editor at Quaderns, her [net]work is a real hub linking several publications and actors on architecture and theory. Working as contributing editor for different blogs and magazines, she has written articles for Volume, Domus, The New City Reader [Istanbul edition] and MAS Context.. She has been invited to present her work in events like Postópolis! DF, and lectures in Athens, Jerusalem, and Oslo, among others. Associate Curator for “Adhocracy”, first commissioned for the Istanbul Design Biennial in 2012 and exhibited at The New Museum, NYC [May 2013] and Lime Wharf, London [Summer 2013]. Curator, with César Reyes, of the third Think Space programme with the theme ‘Money’.

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Friday 14th of February 2014
Ronen Kadushin
Lecture: Open Design: Products in a Networked Culture.

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Open to the Public

Thursday 6th of February 2014
Ethel Baraona
Lecture: It’s the economy, stupid.

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Open to the Public

Tonight we had the pleasure of hosting the Winter Lecture Series 2014 with Luca Galofaro representing IaN+.

IaN+ was recently invited to talk in a Conference in Italy by the name of Rebel Matters, Radical Patterns, which opened an interesting debate in the interests and research lines that the studio undertakes, and forcing them to pose questions which Luca discussed during his presentation:

Today there is much talk on the need to be radical, to do a cutting-edge architecture, to chase those image techniques that have been invading the real and virtual space. Architects like Luca and IaN+, who continue to deal with the project in the same way as always, find it difficult to place themselves within these circumstances. They really feel confused, and confusion is necessary to understand and to understand each other. So they started to make a list of things they consider important in their work and to reflect on their need to use the project as a research tool; wanting to write a manifesto that could represent their approach, without the need to publish it. But the more talking and writing went on, the more they started realizing this is not a manifesto but a list of all those things they do not want to realise through their projects. Read More »

Friday 31st of January 2014
Hernan Diaz Alonso
Lecture: Form and Gloom.

@ 20.30, IAAC Auditorium
Open to the Public