Lost & Found
A navy blue scarf was left at yesterday’s Social Design Students' Festival 🍃
It will be brought to Design Academy Eindhoven and placed at the school’s Lost and Found.
If it belongs to you, please collect it there.
Post Mortem of Looking Back
Post Mortem of Looking Back is derived from One Fine Evening, an earlier film project depicting a daily commute. One Fine Evening does not follow a conventional narrative suggested by its title. Instead, it documents the act of returning home from Design Academy as a process — a train journey observed through moving images, actions, and shifting contexts.
The work contains no spoken narration and no added music, except for a brief dancing moment at the end. By withholding explicit explanation, the project deliberately leaves space for interpretation. Meaning is not stated here, but emerges through the encounter between the audience and the images themselves.
The work does not aim to define a specific emotion. It may resonate with solitude, fatigue, or quiet tension — or with none of these in particular. Rather than making a claim, it offers something to be carried away — a small fragment of everyday commuting life, as experienced by a social design student.
Social Design Festival, Eindhoven
📍Fuutlaan 14K | February 12th
Post Mortem of Disconnection
Everyday business brings various people together in the Emma district, yet they are divided by the boundaries of their institutions. Here the Institut for Interinstitutional Relations (IFIR) commits to its vision: connecting neighboring institutions and the communities around them across institutional boundaries.
Social Design Festival, Eindhoven
📍Fuutlaan 14K | February 12th
Post Mortem of Performing Leisure
Through experiments that represent different levels of merging of work and leisure, Merge Lab engaged with the public, questioning how and where the overlapping happens in peoples lives. Through this ritual we want to explore and rediscover true leisure and rest, in a ritual-less society that skips over time, we are constantly being stimulated, to perform and conform, without engaging with active rest. Distancing ourselves from expectations and performative engagement. We created a space where we welcome you to sit down, take a breath and reflect on how, nowadays leisure isn’t designed for humans but for systems, where it is expected from you to rest on command, straying away from your true needs.
Social Design Festival, Eindhoven
📍Fuutlaan 14K | February 12th
Post Mortem of Invisible Rules
Our research in Kruidenbuurt revealed a gap between its image as a harmonious neighbourhood and the reality of quiet, underused public spaces shaped by unwritten social norms. Through a series of interventions, we found that provocation created resistance, while gentle, site-specific prompts combined with our presence opened conversations. Residents expressed a desire for connection, play, and enjoyment of nature, but felt constrained by invisible rules. The project ultimately showed Kruidenbuurt as a complex space where making social norms visible can invite reflection and dialogue.
Social Design Festival, Eindhoven
📍Fuutlaan 14K | February 12th
Post Mortem of Detachment
Moving beyond the definition of a stranger : Enter with an open mind to turn strangers into half - strangers.
Often, we are separated by walls, devices, ideas, beliefs, and more. But there’s always room for connection. We experiment this by creating space - literally - for us to connect with “strangers”. Enter with an open mind, share emotions, opinions, and curiosities to turn strangers into half - strangers.
Social Design Festival, Eindhoven
📍Fuutlaan 14K | February 12th
Post Mortem of Quiet Discovery
Rather than relying solely on statistics and assumptions about the neighborhood, we chose to explore the area through a lens of poetic discovery—attending to what often goes unnoticed, from the composition of the soil to the invisible borders that shape daily life. This sensitive, quiet approach allowed us to understand Limbeek-Zuid on its own terms. Our intervention was deliberately subtle, designed to plant seeds for connection and serve as an invitation for neighbours to engage with one another and their shared space. While our physical intervention remained understated, we made ourselves visible through our presence, creating openings for dialogue and relationship rather than imposing solutions from the outside.
Social Design Festival, Eindhoven
📍Fuutlaan 14K | February 12th
Post Mortem of Community
What could be the afterlife of a community?
Of a shared place? What do we keep and what’s left from those communal moments?
This collaborative project with some of the Eikenburg inhabitants, is an attempt to give a physical shape, a soundscape to this feeling of togetherness while remaining different individuals encountering each other.
By recording, collecting and framing time and sound fragments, we tried to offer an example of what could a community feel like.
Social Design Festival, Eindhoven
📍Fuutlaan 14K | February 12th
