_ THE NEXT EVOLUTION _ ROBOT AND HUMAN CITY _ GEEST OP DE FLES _ CONCEPT STORE RETROGARDE _ GYÖRGY KEPES BALANCE _ THE ROOM OF REASON

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1 2018 P O R T - F O L I O T H O M A S G A L V A N

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3 _ CV _ THE NEXT EVOLUTION _ ROBOT AND HUMAN CITY _ GEEST OP DE FLES _ CU THROUGH _ PIENIVUOTI _ CONCEPT STORE RETROGARDE _ GYÖRGY KEPES BALANCE _ PONG _ ADRIANO 51 _ THE ROOM OF REASON

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5 THOMAS GALVAN - INTERIOR DESIGNER Vierambachtsstraat 40A, 3023 AP, Rotterdam NL WhatsApp: thomasgalvan1991@gmail.com 30th August 1991 EDUCATION SEPTEMBER JULY 2018 OCTOBER JULY 2015 OCTOBER JULY 2014 SEPTEMBER JULY 2011 MASTER S DEGREE IN INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE: RESEARCH + DESIGN Piet Zwart Institute - Hogeschool Rotterdam, Rotterdam NL MASTER S DEGREE IN INTERIOR DESIGN (1 YEAR) Politecnico di Milano, Milan IT BACHELOR S DEGREE IN INTERIOR DESIGN Politecnico di Milano, Milan IT GRADUATE AT TECHNICAL ARTISTIC INSTITUTE Itas S. B. Boscardin, Vicenza IT WORKSHOPS EXHIBITIONS WORK EXPERIENCE FEBRUARY JUNE 2018 NOVEMBER JULY 2016 JUNE JUNE 2015 JUNE AUGUST 2010 OCTOBER 2018 MAY 2018 MARCH 2018 APRIL 2015 MARCH 2018 MARCH 2018 TEACHING ASSISTANT FOR SPATIAL DESIGN Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam NL Tutoring students during the design process INTERIOR DESIGN INTERN Michaël Bihain s Architecture and Design Studio, Bruxelles BE 3D visualization of interior architecture projects, design of sculptures and objects VISUAL AND SALES MANAGER Cloè Moda, Breganze IT Development of floor plans and displays to maximize sales ACTIVITIES ORGANIZER Diocesan Museum, Vicenza IT Organization of visits and activities for primary school kids ULTERIOR with The Next Evolution Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven NL RETAILUTION - RETAILINNOVATIE with Human & Robot City WTC - World Trade Center, Rotterdam NL EXCAVATING EMPATHY with Geest op de Fles TENT, Rotterdam NL ESTETICA DELLA MISERIA with Pienivuoti Milan Design Week, Milan IT EXCAVATING EMPATHY with Shimon Attie Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam NL INTERIORS, NATURE AND FOOD with Cooking Sections Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam NL SOFTWARE SKILLS LANGUAGES Adobe InDesign Adobe Photoshop ITALIAN Native proficiency Adobe Premiere Autodesk 3DS Max Microsoft Office ENGLISH Full professional proficiency Adobe After Effect Google Sketchup Keyshot FRENCH Limited working proficiency Adobe Illustrator Autodesk AutoCAD Adobe Fuse SPANISH Limited working proficiency

6 HERE to watch the video _THE NEXT EVOLUTION 2018 Speculative Design / Video The speculative scenario explores the potential future relation between human and machine, using social media as a tool to present it. Transhumanism argues that the human species has not yet reached its final evolution, and that artificial enhancement of the human body and mind will help mankind to reach a new evolutionary stage. The aim of the project is to explore the current and prospective developments of technology that facilitate such enhancement, embedded in the transhumanism theories, and how they will influence the future of interiors, which served to recreate the framework of the speculative scenario MIARD Alumni Research Award - Dutch Design Week 2018

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9 The design project is told and experienced by two characters, both living in is a transhuman social media influencer in the social media platform Next Evolution, and its assistant, RazziBot, is a bot, a software that has reached a new status and has a physical appearance. I focused on the design of their physical and digital space. The introduction of new dimensions, the virtual and the augmented, allows to imagine a new environment where there are no rules, no boundaries, where it is possible to change settings and features every day, which can be experienced by the human and the machine, and which merges physical and digital.

10 HERE to watch the video _ROBOT AND HUMAN CITY 2017 Speculative Design / Video The production and sale of robots and machines is on the rise. According to the World Robotics Report 2016 of the International Federation of robotics, about 333,200 new service robots for professional use will be installed and about 42 million units of service robots for personal and domestic use will be sold. In parallel, nowadays, the research in the robotic field is continuously growing, developing ever more complex form of what we all know as artificial intelligence. What if the amount of spaces of consumption for robots were equal to the amount of spaces of consumption for humans? This is a reality where humans and robots are cohabitating in the same city or space. Where robots don t exist anymore just to help humans, but they live their life and have their experiences. How would the city change? How would the spaces change? And more specifically, how would the spaces of consumption be? Humans&Robots-city is the first city designed for both humans and robots. Here, robots, through the features of machine learning and artificial intelligence, can experience the spaces - which also humans are using - but consuming a different kind of product: learning and experience. - Project exhibited at Retailution - Retailinnovatie in Rotterdam

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12 MALL & COLOURS LEARNING EXPERIENCE CENTER RESTAURANT & FOOD LEARNING ART CENTER

13 EXPERIENCE CENTER MALL & COLOURS LEARNING RESTAURANT & FOOD LEARNING ART CENTER

14 HERE to watch the video _GEEST OP DE FLES 2018 Research Design / Video The project Geest op de Fles is focused on the invisible side of the community of Circus students through the performance walking on the bottles by Ronja Breuk, used as a metaphor to tell their story. - Project exhibited at Excavating Empathy

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16 HERE to watch the video _Cu THROUGH 2017 Product Design Cu through is an object composed by two grids which represent the electrical polarity through their connection to an energy source. The illumination connected to the structure is made of wax and a LED system. The aim of my project is to design a structure that can be used in different ways without losing its main purpose: being a luminous object. Cu through can be used in private and public interior spaces and adapted to different needs. It is a wall to split a studio apartment in two and still keep it connected. It is a structure to put along the wall of a shop and use it as display unit to expose the merchandise on sale. It can be used in a bar/ club/restaurant to produce different light effects. In each version, it is possible to customize the amount of lights and their position based on the user s needs.

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19 sub-project: CONTACT LAMP Contact Lamp is the prototype of a game lamp created during the design of Cu Through. Consisting of 6 pieces, Contact Lamp can have different shapes and solutions.

20 HERE to watch the video _PIENIVUOTI 2015 Scenic Design Scenography on poverty. A row of light blue houses on the streets of Tokyo. The initiative of human victory against the power of capital. The homeless are tested every day by extreme life conditions and they elaborated a new concept of living by recycling waste found on the street. The result is an object-house ( casaoggetto cit. M. De Lucchi), an elegant architectonic model customized for the man, where everything is concentrated in 4 m². The constant state of temporary, humble spaces and the illusion of a real house. The eastern accuracy is the centre of the habitat: the typical habitation of the homeless is a concentration of objects that compose the spaces. Wood, plastic and tape, with elegance and lightness, create a dramatic scenery of misery. At the sides of the principal construction there are two no-places represented by insubstantial shapes and impalpable light. The dream of stability, richness and a permanent dwelling are represented by a void recoverable just with illusions. An ambience full of objects of low monetary value conflicts with emptiness: and hence pienivuoti (full-empty). - Project exhibited at Milan Design Week 2015

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24 _CONCEPT STORE RETROGARDE - GLASS SHOP 2014 Retail Design Starting from the general concept, and establishing a link between past and future, the project presents traditional techniques like furnace processing, lamp-work, glass paste working and manual decoration. The relation with the future represented via the presence of new technologies. There are two main machines: KUKA, a robot s arm able to decorate and/or to colour threedimensional surfaces, and a 3D glass printer. The customer can create his/her own glass products, which allows him/her to choose the way to produce and decorate them. This way the client participates fully during the entire production. The retail space is organized in two main areas: sales/exhibition zone and workshop/ realization zone. The glass shop is an all white-space meant to exalt the colours of the products exposed. Several glass structures are placed opposite the windows in orderto create seducing plays of light.

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26 HERE to watch the video _GYÖRGY KEPES: BALANCE (EQUILIBRIO) 2014 Research Design / Video Kepes was a Hungarian-born painter, photographer, designer, educator, and art theorist. He analized the plastic figure in paintings, photography and other disciplines. He investigated the visual organization and other artistic techniques used during the years, putting at the center of his research the concept of BALANCE. The aim of the project is to explore and explain in other terms the research about balance made by György Kepes.

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28 _PONG 2013 Interior Design / Illustration The concept of the project is based on the rebound of the ideas and a rapid discussion, like in table tennis. This is because the business incubator is a place where people can develop their projects helped by others who have specific knowledge about a particular topic and by confrontation with other designers. The general concept is the table tennis. There is a sharing ideas software available in order to share the ideas, accessible to everyone inside the place. In the office, many tables are present and, if you place together four of them, users can create a real table for table tennis in order to have fun and ease tensions during the break. Users may also use the kitchen (with a blackboard to write and share whatever they like), the bedroom (concept of sharing) and a relax room with a sofa, a hammock and a video projector.

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32 _ADRIANO Interior Design The building is located in the north-east of the City of Milan. The building is realized with a mixed structure: the pillars at level 0 are iron, and the whole structure of layers 1 and 2 is reinforced concrete. The volumes of the cover are made of steel. The project is inspired by the Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto and his Final Wooden House. The project presents two specular lofts designed for two artists, with sharing spaces such as the garden on the roof or the big terrace.

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36 _THE ROOM OF REASON 2012 Speculative Design The Room of the Reason is closely related to the comparison between, and the inability to divide, rationality and irrationality. This contrast becomes the focal point of the project which takes shape in a space bounded by a grid that creates very geometric forms equally sized, which is broken by a central repetitive scheme. The installation placed in the center is formed by a series of transparent wires on which colour drops remain imbedded: when the observer takes the path can not understand their meaning because of the walls, which hide a direct view of the figure that appears by looking from the right point of view (by willing to follow the order geometric plans). The figure formed is a clock: an element that divides time in a rational way, but which is represented in a totally irrational mode meant to represent the presence of the irrational in a space divided with rigidity, which stands for the rational. The white frame, wall, and the colour-set forming the drops are a tool to emphasize the contrast between the two principle of reason.

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41 Imprint Portfolio Thomas Galvan 2018 All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or stored in any written, electronic, recording, or photocopying form without a prior written permission of the author. Thomas Galvan thomasgalvan1991@gmail.com

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