Registration is Open for Fair P(l)ay #3: Know Your Worth!

loka 10, 2023 | 2023, News

Know your worth: EUNIC NL organises third FAIR P(L)AY event during the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven

 

How do you establish yourself as a designer? What makes a professional designer? How do you know how much your work is worth? And how does that affect your own creative practice? Join us for a conversation on rewarding and sustainable design practices!

 

As part of the Dutch Design Week 2023 in Eindhoven, EUNIC Netherlands presents the third event of its Fair P(l)ay cycles: Fair Practices In The Cultural Sector – Know Your Worth. Fair P(l)ay is a series of events discussing sustainable remuneration practices in arts and culture with perspectives from international actors.

The programme features a discussion on propelling your career into the design world, with shared experiences from artists, practitioners, and cultural organisations. We invite you, on the verge of your design career, to listen, learn, and discuss your possibilities, needs, and ambitions.

The event will be followed by networking opportunities in a relaxed setting, where you can meet the speakers and invited professionals, and the event organisers who all represent a different national institute for culture such as Czech Centre Rotterdam, DutchCulture, the Embassy of Austria in the Netherlands, the Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux, Goethe-Institut Netherlands, Institut français NL, and Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond.

 

Registration is open now! Sign up here

 

Meet our Speaker: Hanna-Kaarina Heikkilä

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Hanna-Kaarina Heikkilä by Sara Urbanski

The Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux is bringing Finnish designer Hanna-Kaarina Heikkilä to the panel. Heikkilä has skills, knowledge, and experience from architectural projects to smallest details in product design. In her work, strategic thinking is combined with practical knowledge and experience. Hanna-Kaarina has a master’s degree in design from Aalto University. She has also studied architecture in Tampere University. Currently, Heikkilä is acting as a creative director at Studio Finna and lecturer in Aalto University. Hanna-Kaarina has been working as an in-house designer at Ikea of Sweden and has been consulting various Scandinavian furniture companies. She has also worked in architecture offices and cultural institution in Japan. Heikkilä lives between Helsinki and Brussels.

 

Organizers

This event is organized by EUNIC Netherlands, in cooperation with the Dutch Design Foundation and the European Commission.

 

About EUNIC Netherlands

EUNIC Netherlands is the Dutch cluster of EUNIC, the European Union of National Institutes for Culture. EUNIC aims to enhance European integration and cultural diplomacy through intensified cultural cooperation.

 

Practical Info

Date: Wednesday 25 October, 2023

Time: 10:00 – 12:30

Location: Foundation We Are, Torenallee 22-04, 5617BD Eindhoven

Language: English

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