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Dezeen wire: the heads of all three masters courses at Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands have resigned following a disagreement with the school over educational reform.

Jan Boelen, Joost Grootens and Louise Schouwenberg, who respectively headed the Social Design, Information Design and Contextual Design masters courses, have stepped down with Nederland Dagblad reporting that they “fear that the autonomy of the Masters [is] at stake, and that [is] compromising the quality of education” (translated from Dutch).

The resignations came on the day that 31 masters students at the school, which is one of the best regarded and most influential design schools in the word, celebrated their graduation.

Eindhoven Dagblad reported Boelen as saying “the Design Academy [is] in great need of an artistic director” (translated from Dutch).

This week also saw the departure of masters school head Gijs Bakker. The Droog co-founder left after 25 years at the academy with Boelen, Grootens and Schouwenberg  due to share responsiblities for the department, according to nrc.nl, which also reports Boelen as saying:

“We had a discussion with the board would like to carry on the vision of the school on the changing role of design in society. But substantive discussion does not occur. Instead, a bureaucratic school system implemented where managers in charge and we professionally as staff no longer have decision-making. “ (Translated from Dutch).

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Design Academy Eindhoven have posted the following statement on their website:

New phase master education

After our official announcement that the heads of the master department resigned, information was send to the media by the heads themselves. We still respect their choice and meanwhile stick to our strategic mission regarding renewed education. For us it is important to continue the dialogue with the people involved. Today we have spoken with stakeholders like tutors, employees, students and the student council. The Executive Board has informed them personally  about the DAE strategy which safeguards the quality of our master course.

We now focus on the continuous development of the master education which meets the high standard we all set. We strongly believe in our human centered design focus. And by doing so, we want to stimulate all skills of our gifted students who look a the world with the use of heart, hands and head.

Previous offical anouncement

As we celebrate the annual graduation of our master students – the heads of the three master research programmes have decided to leave our academy. Jan Boelen, Joost Grootens and Louise Schouwenberg will continue their careers elsewhere. We thank them for their effort and expertise and wish them all the best on their journey.

Meanwhile, we proceed to develop the position of the heads to guarantee the best solution possible which safeguards our values in the field of master education.

We will evolve our master education on an excellent level with a strong, highly valuable focus on design, research and strategy within the context of the world we live in. We cherish our DNA and believe in the cultural meaning, social relevance and economic value of design. This is carried out by our highly skilled students and teachers from all over the world.

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Cologne 2012: closing one drawer of Lee Sanghyeok‘s table causes another to shoot out at random. The project won second prize at the [D3] Contest at imm cologne this week.

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Called Listen to Your Hands, the chest has multiple drawers connected by a central air chamber.

Closing a drawer quickly causes a sudden burst of air to force another drawer out elsewhere. The cabinet can only be completely closed by shutting each drawer in turn slowly and deliberately.

The project was first presented at Lee Sanghyeok’s graduation from the Design Academy Eindhoven last year.

First prize at the [D3] Contest was awarded to Jólan van der Wiel for his machine that uses magnets to draw furniture out of a vat of liquid.

Photos and video are by Minseong Wang.

Here are some more details from Lee Sanghyeok:

Listen to your hands is about how we can make a relationship with inanimate things in our domestic space, like furniture. How we connect to the furniture around us, how we experience and communicate with it.

Listen to your hands looks at the most sensitive of human senses, touch; it communicates a whole world of information to us and it explores how we can create a relationship to an object, a sort of dialogue, through touch.

Listen to your hands is a desk with drawers. A push of one drawer pulls out another as if in direct conversation with the action. A gentle closing of a drawer keeps the others intact thus communicating to us that we need to act with intention, we need to listen with our hands.

Lee Sanghyeok creates furniture, objects and nice ideas.

Dezeen Screen: in this movie filmed by Dezeen at the Design Academy Eindhoven My Way talks in Milan, Dutch designer Eveline Visser talks about the wall of nest boxes she designed for birds in the city. Watch the movie »

Dezeen Screen: in this movie Dezeen filmed at the Design Academy Eindhoven My Way talks in Milan, designers Dries Verbruggen (above) and Claire Warnier of Belgian studio Unfold explain their virtual potters’ wheel. Watch the movie »

Photo is by Liesje Reyskens.

Folds, pleats and tucks in this suit by graduate designer Carolina Reis exaggerate the movements of its wearer.

Top and above photographs are by Nichon Glerum

“Since movement is as individual as our fingerprints, a design that takes into account motion becomes singular to each person,” says Reis.

Above photograph is by Design Academy Eindhoven and Vincent van Gurp

Called Wear Out, the project was developed as part of her graduation at the Design Academy Eindhoven last year.

Above photograph is by Nichon Glerum

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Above photograph is by Nichon Glerum

The information below is from Carolina Reis:

Carolina Reis, designer and researcher, has developed Wear Out. It is the outcome of her master degree at the Design Academy Eindhoven. Her work was exhibited during the Dutch Design Week from the 23rd until the 31st of October at both the Design Academy Graduation Show and at the Appropriate Material exhibition.

WEAR OUT – body movement shaping the garment

What if the wearer could become whoever he is without having to choose a certain representation in his outfit? Is it possible to approach fashion design without imposing a certain model to follow?

This project is the outcome of this premise. The mechanism applied on the fabric breaks when there is pressure and adjusts to the wearer. By using movement as a catalyzer of change in the object, the garment takes its final shape once each person has used it.

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Folded fabric by Issey Miyake	Pleated chair by Nendo	Leggings by Camille Cortet