BK Talks: Don't panic

Ifrah Ariff
Student of MSc Architecture, TU Delft

Ifrah Ariff is a MSc Architecture track graduation student, who aims to graduate from TU Delft soon. As a prospective job-seeker who is curious about interdisciplinarity in design, she is curious about what careers her skills as a designer can lead her to. She has previously studied and worked in the UK where she has worked on residential projects in the Passive House sector.

Pedro Daniel Pantaleone

Pedro Daniel Pantaleone is an Architect, Artist and Designer based in Rotterdam. In October 2021 he co-founded Studio-Method: an independent Art and Design practice developing contingent design as an approach that eschews the premises of power and control in design in favor of adaptation, appropriation, repurposing, and caretaking, toward convivial and communal practices.

Margarita Salmerón

Margarita Salmerón Espinosa is a Swiss Spanish designer who defines herself as European. She studied architecture in Valencia, Spain and practiced in offices such as MVRDV and Herzog&deMeuron before founding together with Christoph Schindler their design practice schindlersalmerón in Zurich, a furniture firm which focuses in the contract market or as they prefer to call it  Möbelarchitektur / Furnitecture with the strategy of designed in Zurich / made in Europe.

David Leite Viana

David Viana has a post-doc. in Urban Morphology, Ph.D. in Urban and Spatial Planning, and Dipl. Arch. He is head of the Urban Planning Division (Matosinhos Municipality), an established researcher at CEAU-FAUP, assistant professor at UPT, Ph.D. supervisor at ISCTE, an external reviewer at the Chalmers University of Technology, and co-founder and co-chair of the International Symposium Formal Methods in Architecture.

Hans Wamelink

Hans Wamelink studied Civil Engineering at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences (CEG), obtaining his doctorate in 1993. He then spent more than a decade as a researcher and assistant professor at the Faculty of Technology Management in Eindhoven. In 2006, he returned to TU Delft, to become Professor of Construction Management & Entrepreneurship. Alongside his academic career, Wamelink founded Infocus, a construction management and consultancy business, and spent twenty years as the director. After that, he was a senior consultant at Royal HaskoningDHV. Recently Hans initiated BK-Launch, the platform for innovation and encouragement of entrepreneurship at the faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment.

Eline Wieland

Eline Wieland is an independent animator / filmmaker. Graduated as an Interior Architect from the Willem de Kooning Academy of Arts in Rotterdam. She works for a wide variety of clients with a focus on architecture, research and design projects. Resulting in experimental installations, animation films and other digital products.