amandine david

bio

Amandine David is a designer and researcher based in Brussels. In her practice, objects appear as material traces to a surrounding process of learning, sharing and collaborating. By working with craftspeople, programmers and architects and foregrounding what is usually considered as context, such as technical know-how, disciplinary traditions and social cultures, Amandine opens up possibilities for multidisciplinary dialogues. Because of its collaborative origins and open-ended nature, the work of Amandine is always self-consciously connected to the social structures of sharing which surround every design practice.

After graduating in product design at La Martinière-Diderot (FR), her interest for craftsmanship and crosscultural collaboration led her to take part in the creation of Hors Pistes, a nomadic residency program initiating encounters between craftspeople and designers. Here, the idea of common languages based on the shared physical connection to tools, materials, objects added to her understanding of craft techniques from different social, political and geographical contexts.

While obtaining her Master in Social Design at Design Academy Eindhoven (NL), Amandine became interested in the relation between traditional crafts and digital manufacturing, eventually leaving behind their opposition with her projects Crossing Parallels and Weaving Code. In the former, Amandine worked with Esmé Hofman and Joris van Tubergen to create tools, objects and hybrid fabrication methods mixing traditional basket weaving and 3D-printing. With Weaving Code, she traces the binary language of machines back to 19th century weaving and explores the ways in which these technologies still speak to each other today.

Previous and ongoing collaborations include TAAT, Z33, Crafts Council Nederland, Trame Paris, Ohme and Dutch Invertuals. Amandine is currently teaching at KASK, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Gent, in the Autonomous Design department. Her work is part of the collection of Design Museum Gent and CID at Grand-Hornu. Amandine recently received the Henry Van de Velde Young Talent Award.

exhibitions

  • Incarnation, Art-O-Rama Marseille — FR, 2023
  • Les tabourets du terroir by Siegrid Demyttenaere — FR, 2023
  • Des archives au design, CID at Grand Hornu — BE, 2023
  • Henry Van de Velde Award, Bozar Brussels — BE, 2023
  • Coding: a 21st-century craft, Coda ExperienceLab — NL, 2023
  • New Crafts, Crafts Council Nederland, Dutch Design Week — NL, 2022
  • Alhambra.gcode by Trame, Alcova, Milan Design Week — FR, 2022
  • Design Gent Fest, MIAT — BE, 2022
  • Alhambra.gcode by Trame, Institut du Monde Arabe — FR, 2022
  • Tools & Things for Ideas, Imal— BE, 2022
  • Modern craft #1, MAD Brussels — BE 2021-22
  • Duos en résonnances, Maison des Arts de Schaerbeek — BE, 2021
  • XYZ, Imal — BE, 2021
  • How&Wow!, Crafts Council Nederland, Dutch Design Week — NL, 2021
  • Order of Operations, curated by Ohme, BozarLab — BE, 2021
  • Transitions - An ongoing operation on change, curated by Studio Plastique, MAD Brussels — BE 2020-21
  • The Circle - Dutch Invertuals, Kazerne — NL 2020
  • Z33, Collectible — BE 2020
  • The Circle - Dutch Invertuals, Dutch Design Week — NL 2019
  • Changing attitudes, Z33 — BE 2019
  • Unmaking School, C-Mine Genk — BE 2019
  • Hors Pistes - Conversations between artisans & designers, Mudac — CH, 2019
  • G18, Dutch Design Week — NL, 2018
  • Unmaking School, Istanbul Design Biennial — TR, 2018
  • Hors Pistes Nuuk, Nuuk Lokalmuseum — GL, 2017
  • Luma Days, Les ateliers Luma, Arles — FR, 2017

lectures & panels

  • Design x Craft Attitudes, Design Dialogues with Hella Jongerius & Amandine David, moderated by Anna Luyten, MIRY Concertzaal, Gent — BE, 2022
  • Celles qui font le design, Maak & Transmettre, Imal — BE, 2022
  • Coders and Weavers, Dixit Algorizmi-The Garden of Knowledge, Venice Biennale — IT, 2022
  • Transitions - An ongoing operation on change, moderated by Jan Boelen — BE, 2020
  • The Order of Operations, joined lecture with Ann Dooms, Ohme, See U — BE, 2021
  • Design x Digital networks (moderation), Design Dialogues with Unfold Studio — BE, 2021
  • Tea Conversation, Motel Win Win, TAC, Eindhoven — NL, 2018
  • Disaster studies symposium, TAC, Eindhoven — NL, 2018
  • Hors Pistes, Le Laboratoire Cambridge, Boston — USA, 2017
  • Hors Pistes, Swissnex, Wanted Design, New York — USA, 2017

awards & grants

  • Young Talent Henry Van De Velde Award — BE, 2023
  • iAtelier, Crafting Europe x Crafts Council Nederlands — NL, 2022
  • Un Futur pour la Culture, residency program at CityFab1 with Benjamin Ottoz — BE, 2022
  • WORTH European Grant for Crossing Parallels — ES, 2020-2021
  • IMAL Fablab residency program — BE, 2020
  • WBDM Prototyping grant for Crossing Parallels — BE, 2019
  • FORMAT Z33 grant and research program — BE, 2019
  • Gijs Bakker Award, nomination for Crossing parallels graduation project — NL, 2018

education

  • Social Design Master, Design Academy Eindhoven, received with cum laude — NL, 2018
  • DSAA Créateur Concepteur, La Martinière Diderot, Lyon — FR, 2010
  • BTS Design Produits, Les Herbiers — FR, 2008