The EINA Open Doors Day is an open and participative event for visitors to discover all there is to know about the Bachelor’s Degree in Design course that we teach. During the day, students on the Bachelor’s Degree in Design do activities and seminars relating to every subject and discipline on the course, while EINA teachers offer guided tours of the facilities and explain the methodology that we follow.
The EINA Open Doors Day is an open and participative event for visitors to discover all there is to know about the Bachelor’s Degree in Design course that we teach. During the day, students on the Bachelor’s Degree in Design do activities and seminars relating to every subject and discipline on the course, while EINA teachers offer guided tours of the facilities and explain the methodology that we follow.
GUIDED TOURS
From 10 am to 6 pm
Tours every half hour
EINA teaching staff will guide you through the school’s facilities while commenting on all the details of the Bachelor’s Degree in Design university course that we teach and answer any queries and questions you might have.
On the tour, you’ll be able to see the work produced by EINA students on display in the school’s classrooms relating to the different professional disciplines taught: Graphic Design, Design of Spaces, Product Design, Visual Creation and Design Culture
ACTIVITIES AT EINA
- Refugee / Mock-ups and Prototypes
- Trompe-l’oeil / Drawing Workshop
- EINA undertakes / Entrepreneurship
- Drawn documentary
- Visual Creation
- Tour of the EINA Foundation art collection
- The Race of the Century / Physics Applied to Design
- Freed Books
- Electronic devices! and ExpoJournals
Refugee / Mock-ups and Prototypes
Times: 10 am to 2 pm
Place: EINA Gardens
Students in the second-year Mock-ups and Prototypes subject, led by Ariadna Fàbregas and Amadeu Ventayol, reflect on the concept of refuge through the construction of life-sized prototypes with discarded or low-cost materials. Visitors can also see a display of the mock-ups that have been used as the basis for producing the final projects.
Trompe-l’oeil / Drawing Workshop
Times: 10 am to 2 pm
Place: Assembly Room
Students in the first-year Drawing Workshop subject, led by Albert Crispi and David Steegmann, will create two constructions in perspective on an existing element.
EINA undertakes / Entrepreneurship
Times: 10 am to 2 pm
Place: Classroom 8
Students in the third-year Entrepreneurship subject, led by Georgina Curtó, will explain their entrepreneurial projects and also take part in the tours of the school.
Drawn Documentary
Timess: from 10.30am to 2.30pm
Place: several spaces at EINA
The students of the Visual Creation Speciality with the teacher Philip Stanton will draw inside & outside EINA.
Visual Creation
Times: 10 am to 2 pm
Place: second floor
The Visual Creation mention offers a number of activities: visit a camera obscura, see how a mural intervention is developed through calligraphy or take part in a small silk-screen printing workshop. Participating teachers: Artur Muñoz, Keith Adams and Enric Mas.
Tour of the EINA Foundation art collection
Time: 1.30 pm
Place: EINA
Art historian and EINA teacher Àlex Mitrani will give a guided tour of EINA’s art collection.
The Race of the Century / Physics Applied to Design
Start of the race: 4 pm
Display of projects: from 10 am
Place: Front garden
Students in the first-year Physics Applied to Design subject, led by Raúl Oliva, will take part in the “Race of the Century” with a range of vehicles designed by the students especially for the occasion.
This activity includes an exhibition of the development of the projects and the 13 prototypes as well as the subsequent competition.
Freed Books
Times: 10 am to 6 pm
Place: various spaces in EINA
Choose the book you want to take away. In different spaces in EINA, you’ll find copies of publications labelled “freed book”, while on the second floor, the Library will have a stand with books that you can take away.
Electronic devices! and ExpoJournals
Times: 10 am to 6 pm
Place: Library (2nd floor)
Discover the electronic devices that are available to borrow in the display in the general room of the library, and consult the nearly 70 publications that we subscribe to according to principal subject matter in the library’s new acquisitions display.
EXHIBITIONS
The display cases on the ground floor will be showing work by students in the second year of the Elements of Identity course, led by Elena Bartomeu. First-year students in the Introduction to the Design Project subject will be exhibiting their work on the first floor.
In addition, EINA will be turned into a large exhibition space for all the projects produced by the students.
The distribution of the different specialities on the Bachelor’s Degree in Design this year will be:
Spaces Mention: Assembly Room.
Design Culture Mention: main entrance.
Graphic Mention: 1st floor foyer.
Product Mention: Classrooms 6 and 7 (1st floor).
Visual Creation Mention: 2nd floor.
The 2018 Open Doors day will include the participation of students and former students on the Master's and Postgraduate Courses: Postgraduate Diploma in Creative Illustration and Visual Communication Techniques and the Specialisation Course in Illustration for Children's and Teenagers' Publications