USTA

The USTA group is an experimental and independent pedagogical platform developing tools for learning and unlearning founded by two INSIDE alumni who graduated in 2017: Arvand Pourabbasi & Klodiana Millona. Usta originates from a shared self-practice during their graduation journey. By sharing knowledge, connections, resources etc. they succeeded to keep their process on track. Apart from the word Usta, or Turkish for master, the group shares a strong belief that the master level of education should not be just a defned relationship between teachers and students, but an open possibility for students to defne their own path. Klodiana and Arvand state that: “Today learning of architecture is changing, from uniquely academic knowledge, from the practices of big masters, to more tangible practices and everyday conditions of regular people and architects. Architecture as a form of knowledge has a privilege to learn from everyday practices of people in diverse environments. Likewise in education, the materiality, aesthetic and functionality are not the main matters anymore; but learning from the immediate environments and observations of existing phenomena are becoming more signifcant in alternative systems of education.”

From that perspective Klodiana and Arvand developed Usta as an integral programme that runs parallel with the main study agenda; it is not a teaching programme, though it aims to support practicing the act of learning among the students. Usta strives for to hold a critical attitude on the conventional architectural education system, focusing on the enhancement of self-study practice within the existing courses. Through organizing ‘Freudian Sessions’, ‘Fanzines’, ‘Workshops to create workshops’, ‘Reading rooms’ and ‘How to party after a reviewsessions’, Usta explores different ways of doing, thinking, feeling and sharing the graduating students’ experiences in their act of becoming a master.

Usta Group https://ustagroup.tumblr. com

Mick van Gemert – MVRDV STUDIO tutor

is a Aser Giménez-Ortega Spanish architect and associate at MVRDV. He is involved in

Gerjan Streng – Cloudcollective STUDIO & Graduation tutor Mick van Gemert has been at MVRDV since 2010 where he is working as an architect/urban planner on different projects. Mick also teaches as a guest teacher at the Faculty of Architecture at the Technical University Delft where he graduated in 2002. Benjamin Foerster- Baldenius – Raumlaborberlin STUDIO tutor

theconceptualization and execution of projects of various scales including the DNB Headquarters in Oslo,Hongqiao CBD and Roskilde Festival High School in Denmark. Aser regularly conducts student workshops and gives lectures worldwide. He graduated with a Master degree in architecture from Universidad Politécnica de Valencia in 2005. Fokke Moerel - MVRDV STUDIO & Graduation tutor Fokke Moerel holds a Masters in

Gerjan Streng is architect and researcher. He co-founded Bright / The Cloud Collective, which explores urban challenges caused by changes in climate, mobility, economy and energy. Data analyses, spatial scenarios and prototypes are used to get a grip on uncertainties. Recently, this has been done with Ministry of Food, a research into the future of food, and several projects showing possible outcomes of the energy transition. Architecture from the Academy of Architecture, Rotterdam. Since January this year Fokke became Partner at MVRDV, and has been working in the studio for over 15 years. Founded in 1993 by Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries in Rotterdam, the international practice of MVRDV realizes exemplary, outspoken projects all over the world. MVRDV

Aser Gimenez-Ortega - MVRDV STUDIO & Graduation tutor

Lotte van den Berg studied Media & Culture in Amsterdam and graduated with a Master in Film Documentary in 2011. After graduating she worked as a producer and volunteer coördinator at Cinekid, a Media festival for children. After that she started working at Sports & Culture TU Delft as a Programme assistent for the Culture courses and projects. In February 2016 she started working at INSIDE. In addition to her task as Coördinator, Lotte works with the students on the visibility and PR of INSIDE. Erik Jutten STUDIO Practice tutor Erik Jutten works with students on projects in ‘a real world’-context and on a one to one scale. Erik graduated in 2004 in Visual Arts at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. He works as initiator of and partner in art projects in public space. He is founding member of City in the Making, an activist organisation working at reclaiming empty buildings for living-working and commoning. www.stadindemaak.nl

Hans Venhuizen Head of INSIDE & tutor TRAVEL programme Hans Venhuizen deals with the culture of spatial planning. In his search for a more specifc identity for cities and areas, Venhuizen links the worlds of culture and space to each other in different ways. In this, his focus is always on the culture of spatial planning itself, and the game is his most important instrument. The relation between playfulness and seriousness is a key feature in all of Venhuizen’s projects. Lotte van den Berg Coordinator INSIDE

Architectural Design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy (1979-2007) and lectured at Parsons School of Design (NYC) among others. He also teaches at the master departments Information Design and Contextual Design of the Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE).

Junyuan Chen graduated from INSIDE in 2015. Her design approach is to start an encompassing research based on her own observations and analysis. In her work, she’s including political as well as environmental issues, and integrates technology and social needs. In 2016, she starts collaborating with Superuse studios (Netherlands), and sets up the Superuse Studios China in Beijing. Currently she teaches the FLOWS study programme at INSIDE, Master Interior Architecture. Frans Bevers SKILLS – Tutor exhibition design Frans Bevers currently works as an independent designer and consultant. Until 2012 he was co-director of OPERA Amsterdam, a design frm with an international portfolio in the feld of interior architecture and exhibition design which he founded in 1981. He was tutor and head of the department of

architecture site of the Netherlands.

Are known as critical designers, driven to understand the world and Louise Schouwenberg THEORY tutor Louise Schouwenberg is an art and design theorist, who has contributed to a range of publications, including ‘Beyond the New. On the Agency of Things’ (2017), and ‘Robert Zandvliet - I owe you the truth in painting’ (2012). She leads the master department Contextual Design at Design Academy Eindhoven, and since 2012 she is one of the theory tutors at INSIDE. Junyuan Chen – SUPERUSE STUDIOS FLOWS tutor

to question it in a unique manner. To this end, their design team analyses content in search of the relation between objects and their users through composing narratives to fnd connections. The Studio is extremely interested in the future of the new working landscape, they introduced a new online magazine; Prooffabmagazine, that aims to defne the future working culture. Anne Hoogewoning THEORY tutor Anne Hoogewoning studied architectural history and cultural heritage. Besides being a theory and writing tutor at the KABK and other academies like Design Academy Eindhoven, she is co-founder and partner of AB Cultural Producers and coordinator of the artist-design residency of the Van Doesburghuis at Meudon/Paris. Hoogewoning is committee member for the design and architecture sector at the Dutch Council of Culture and board member of ArchiNed, the

Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius is an architect from Berlin and partner at raumlaborberlin that develops artistic projects in public space. Presently he is preparing the foating university berlin, an offshore campus for cities in transformation. He was Professor at the Academy of Art, Architecture + Design,Prague and transdisciplinary Design at Folkwang University of Arts, Essen. Currently he is teaching at University Witten/Herdecke, Designacademy Eindhoven and the Kabk. Studio Makkink & Bey – Jurgen Bey & Chester Chuang STUDIO tutor