Archiprix and the future of design education. Beeld: BK Talks

Debate: Archiprix and the future of design education

Together with the TU/Delft, IABR will organize Archiprix and the future of design education in cooperation with BK Talks on the 18th of March (17.00-19.00).
 
As part of the Archiprix 2025 exhibition, this edition of BK Talks will bring together (young) practitioners nominated for Archiprix 2025 and Deans from Dutch design schools to reflect on the present and future of design education.  

With architectural education facing increasing challenges—shifting societal demands, climate urgency, and evolving professional expectations—how should institutions adapt? What skills and perspectives do the next generation of designers need to navigate an uncertain future? And how can education assume critical, adaptable, and responsible design practices? 

The BK Talks will be hosted in the Oostserre of TU Delft, where the discussion will be moderated by Saskia van Stein, Director of IABR.

Practical Information: 

• The event will be held in English. 
• The event will be filmed, streamed live, and archived for future reference. 
• Follow the live broadcast via this link. 
• Free and open to the public – no registration required. 
• Join us at 17:00 in the Orange Hall for a welcome drink before the discussion begins. 

Stay tuned for more updates! 

Biographies: moderator and panel

Saskia van Stein (she/her) is artistic and managing Director of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR). Currently, Van Stein also holds the position as co - Head of Department, MA The Critical Inquiry Lab at the Design Academy, Eindhoven. Prior to this, she was artistic and managing Director at Bureau Europa, platform for architecture and design, Maastricht, 2013–2019. Van Stein’s curatorial practice started at the Netherlands Architecture Institute (now Nieuwe Instituut) in Rotterdam, 2002–2012, where her first steps were made by programming exhibitions on the intersection of architecture culture, political and human sciences, design and fine arts. Over the span of her career, her deep-seated interest in the discourse surrounding the politics of representation panned out into experimentation with different exhibition formats, modes of display and methods of knowledge production, as well as moderating and participating in numerous discursive events. She has often spearheaded topics and themes, in and outside of the confined walls of institutional realms, questioning cultural production and the designed environment itself. 

After working as an architect and urban designer, combined with a career in the Arnhem city council, Mattijs Loor is head of the Arnhem Academy of Architecture at ArtEZ University of the Arts since 2024. Mattijs studied urban planning and architecture at the Eindhoven University of Technology and ArtEZ. 

Marcel Musch is the Director of the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and Urban Design (RAVB). He combines this role with research activities at both the TU Delft and the RAVB. He graduated as an architect from Delft University of Technology and has worked as an urban designer and consultant at several offices and municipalities among  them the City of Rotterdam and BVR Consultants. He was a researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology, focusing on Urban Design and Urban Architecture. In Eindhoven he initiated the TU/e Urban Labs, a platform for adapted research with external partners, integrating research, education, and practice. Research themes included climate adaptive urbanism, healthy urbanism, heritage and urban transformation. He was an editor and member of the board of OASE. He is a member of the advisory program board of CLICKNL, the National Dutch Knowledge and Innovation Network of the Creative Industry. Current research projects include Trustmaking (NOW), Adequate Housing for People without a Home (NWA) and Creating Space for the Creative Industry (RAAK). 

Juliette Bekkering is a full professor at the Technical University of Eindhoven and she is a practicing architect: she works as an associate partner with Neutelings Riedijk Architects on a number of internationally challenging projects,. Beside that she is active as an advisor and policy maker in a number of think tanks, committees and advisory boards at home and abroad. She is regularly asked to give lectures, to speak at conferences and expert meetings and represents the 4TUs (Design United) as an expert on circular design.   

Dirk van Gameren is professor of housing design and dean of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at Delft University of Technology, and partner at Mecanoo Architecten. His professional work has ranges from exhibition design to large scale masterplanning. In his early career he received a first prize in the 1991 Europan Competition, and in 1995 the Charlotte Köhler Prize of the Prins Bernard Foundation for Culture.  In 2007, Van Gameren won the Aga Khan Award for the project for the Dutch Embassy in Ethiopia,  and in 2012 the Best Building of the Year Award of the Dutch Association of Architects for the radical and sustainable transformation of a villa near Amsterdam. The project for Thamesmead South in London won in 2017 the English Housing Design Regeneration Award. 

Claudio Saccucci is an architect, researcher and educator based in Rotterdam. He studied architecture at the La Sapienza University of Rome, followed by master studies at the Technical University of Delft and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. After gaining experience in office like OMA, BIG and TRANS, he established together with Roxane van Hoof, Studio Verter, a practice at the intersection between architecture, scenography and research. In the past they collaborated with clients among which Unfair, Collectible, Dutch Design Week and Nieuwe Instituut. Besides his practice, he is a graduation and design tutor at INSIDE, Master of Interior Architecture at the KABK in Den Haag, and he also teaches design and cultural theory at the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture, RAVB. For Claudio, architecture is a tool for storytelling and exploration, a tool with which we perceive and understand our human condition. 

Nasma Alshutfa graduated from the Royal Academy of Art | KABK · Interior architecture. She is dedicated to creating spaces that blend research, culture, and personal narratives, while integrating activism into design with a strong focus on human rights, equality, and social justice. My work combines aesthetic and functional excellence with a mission to create meaningful social impact. 

Charlotte Delobbe graduated recently from TU Delft – Landscape Architecture. The voice of water and water in all its states have always been the focus point of my past and current researches. During her other master in Architecture at the University of Liège in Belgium, her graduation project revolved around the canalization of the river Vesdre and how, where and why she - the water as a living entity - flooded the city of Verviers. After her Landscape Architecture master at TU Delft she became interested in another state of water - her silence and absence. It is why she focused her graduation thesis on the drought challenges and communities vulnerable to global warming, more particularly a rural town in Rwanda.