Tutors Situated Design
Meet the dedicated tutor team of the Master of Arts in Fine Arts & Design, a group of practicing artists, designers, and researchers committed to guiding your development. They bring diverse perspectives from contemporary practice to help you shape your own artistic and professional direction.
Aiwen Yin
Aiwen is a designer, artist, researcher, educator and occasional institutional strategist based in Rotterdam and London. Her work evolves around the idea “the technological is institutional and the institutional is technological” and advocates relationship-centre design as the antidote of an atomised society. Her work is mostly collaborative and research-driven, seeking individual healings through systematic change, bringing system design, game-theater, ethnographic research, liberation psychology and community development together and form actionable proposals. Notable work includes ReUnion Network, Liquid Dependencies and Alchemy of Commons. She received the INFORM prize for Conceptual Design for her work in 2019.
Ollie Palmer
Ollie Palmer is an artist, designer, and film-maker whose work critically explores control systems and contemporary technology through installations, films, and performances, often in collaboration with scientists and dancers. He has exhibited internationally at venues including the V&A Museum, London Zoo, FutureEverything Festival, Seoul Museum of Modern Art, and the Opera Garnier de Paris, with films shown at festivals such as International Film Festival Rotterdam and Arctic Moving Image Festival. He has worked commercially with clients including BBC Worldwide and University College London, travelled widely, and taught IT in the Amazon. Formerly a Masters-level tutor at the Bartlett School of Architecture, where he completed an AHRC-funded PhD by Design, he has also taught at SAIC, TU Delft, and the Architectural Association. He currently teaches on the Situated Design MA at the Master Institute of Visual Cultures and is a researcher in the Situated Art and Design group.
Márton Kabai
Márton Kabai (HU) is a graphic designer, artist, researcher, design tutor, and a father of two. He is a co-founder of the artist duo Oddkin, with Natela Lemondzhava. Together, they explore and question design in the context of ecological, political, and social crises. By challenging the dominant human condition, they combine ceramics with 3D graphics. Márton earned his Graphic Design BA degree at the Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague, and holds a Master's in Education in Arts from Piet Zwart Institute. He works as a practice tutor at the Master Institute of Visual Cultures and is a researcher at Economy in Common at Avans.