Lectures

During Material Xperience 2012 lectures will include the following speakers.

Lecture Room Material Xperience 2012

Wednesday 25 january

11:30 – 12:30 Mieke de Bock (on behalf of exhibitor Agrob Buchtal)
ZIEN

13.30 – 14.30 Hans Erdmann (on behalf of exhibitor InterfaceFLOR)
Een tweede jeugd

14.30 – 15.30 Daan Roosegaarde
Artist and architect Daan Roosegaarde (1979) explores the dawn of a new nature that is evolving from technological innovations by creating interactive landscapes that instinctively respond to sound and movement. Roosegaarde’s remarkable works of art function as a documentation of the dynamic relation between architecture, people, and technology. His sculptures, such as Dune and Intimacy, are tactile high-tech environments in which viewer and space become one. This connection, established between ideology and technology, results in what Roosegaarde calls “techno-poetry”.

16.00 – 17.00 Gijs Bakker
Gijs Bakker, trained at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, is considered a pioneer in the field of design. Jewellery Design is a key component, but just as often he designs furniture and interior products (think of his amazing Holes Chair and coffeepot with ‘cardigan’ Knitted Mary), interiors and public spaces. His work is characterized by a conceptual approach and experiment with materials and techniques. Bakker has also encouraged other designers and always brought their work to the attention, for instance as co-founder of Droog Design, a lecturer at the Design Academy in Eindhoven, starting the design jewellery label Chi ha paura…? and as creative director of the Taiwan Yii.

17.30 – 18.30 Dr. Christian Nocke (Akustikbüro – Oldenburg Germany) (on behalf of exhibitor Barrisol)
Acoustic solutions by micro-perforated materials, theory by Prof Prof. D-Y Maa

Thursday 26 january

11.30 – 12.30 Marijke Griffioen, designer of Forbo Flooring (on behalf of exhibitor Forbo Flooring)
Marmoleum; van concept tot product
Designing linoleum,
What’s there to design about linoleum?
Marijke Griffioen explains about how the designer is challenged by the limitations of the production process for the development of new visuals.

12.30 – 13.30 Professor Dr. Agis Papadopoulos, University Thessaloniki Greece (on behalf of exhibitor Creative Cladding)
Functional facade of the future (voor: gevelbouwers, aannemers, constructers)

13.30 – 14.30 Debate Architectenweb (Anne Holtrop (Studio Anne Holtrop), Sanne van der Burgh (MVRDV), and others)
What role do physical models play in the design process?

14.30 – 15.30 Kasper Guldager Jørgensen
Kasper Guldager Jørgensen is innovator and developer at 3XN through his work as development manager for the studio’s newly formed Innovation Unit GXN. Driven by talent, curiosity and tenacity Kasper has within a few years, made himself the spokesperson for the shape of future architecture, focusing on new business areas and integration of new materials and technologies. Broad and interdisciplinary collaborations in research and practice is the signature of Kasper’s work.

16:00 – 17:00 Xavier De Kestelier
Xavier De Kestelier is associate partner at the Specialist Modelling Group of Foster+Partners. In this position he has worked on a broad range of projects such as Beijing Airport, Yacht Plus BoatFleet, and The Masdar Institute of Technology. His area of research is the application of parametric software to solve complex geometry, the redefinition of the role of architects as a designer within the digital environment, and the application of digital fabrication and rapid manufacturing techniques in architecture. Since 2006 he has been respectively visiting professor at the University of Ghent (Belgium) and Syracuse University (NY). He has been involved with SmartGeometry for many years and became in 2010 one of the directors.

17.30 – 18.30 Els Zijlstra
International trends
Els Zijlstra studied architecture at the University of Technology Delft. Other interests are biology, biomimicry, cultural anthroposophy and journalism. When she founded Materia all these fascinations came together. She intermediates between the creative professional and the Industry. By gathering innovative materials worldwide and expose them through a search engine, books and articles, international travelling exhibitions and lectures, the Materia Inspiration Centre Amsterdam and consultancy Els aims to become with her team an international inspirational source.

18.45 – 19.45 Peter Linders (on behalf of exhibitor Strikolith)
Betonstuuk & creative design

Friday 27 january

11.45 – 12.45 Professor Dr. Agis Papadopoulos, University Thessaloniki Greece (on behalf of exhibitor Creative Cladding)
Functional facade of the future (voor: architecten en vormgevers)

13.00 – 14.00 Pascal Smelik
Pascal Smelik (1983) graduated in 2009 at the Academy of the Arts in Utrecht with a series of products based on candlewax. The best known example of these are the ‘Kaarsrecht’-series. The work of Pascal Smelik was nominated for the Piet Bakker Award and the Talent 2009 Design Awards.

14.30 – 15.30 Blaine Brownell
Blaine Brownell is an architect and former Fulbright scholar with a research focus on emergent materials. He is a principal of the design and research practice Transstudio and an Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Master of Science program in Sustainable Design at the University of Minnesota School of Architecture. Brownell authored the Transmaterial series as well as the books Matter in the Floating World and Material Strategies: Innovative Applications in Architecture with Princeton Architectural Press.

Information regarding the lecture programme of GEVEL 2012 you can find here