Steffie de Gaetano is a Dutch-Italian interdisciplinary researcher currently based in Eindhoven (NL) who merges architecture and anthropology with alternative photographic processes. Her condition of ‘in-betweenness’ predisposes an attunement to questions of identity and otherness, while she finds complicity in the divergent thought of unexpected realities. She aims at critically unbuilding the field of architecture by uncovering the interspecies entanglements and implications of the industry in Nature. After graduating in Architecture at the TU Eindhoven in 2016, she is currently enrolled in two postgraduate programs: Decolonizing Architecture Advanced Studies at Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, and Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies at KU Leuven.
CONTACT
degaetano.steffie[at]gmail.com
CV
EDUCATION
2020-ongoing - Royal Institute of Art (SE)
DAAS (Decolonizing Architecture Advanced Studies)
Postgraduate degree on 'Modernism and Demodernization'
Permeance Project: ongoing
2020-ongoing - KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN (BE)
CADES (Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies)
Master thesis: ongoing
2014-2016 - TEChNICAl UNIvERSITy Of EINDhOvEN (Nl)
Master degree in Architecture, Building and Planning
Specialization: Architecture
Master thesis: ‘A brickyard deconstruction: the redevelopment of brickyard Elden and the Meinerswijk landscape’
Final grade: 9/10
Nomination: Archiprix Nederland
2011-2014 - TEChNICAl UNIvERSITy Of EINDhOvEN (Nl)
Bachelor degree in architecture, building and planning
2006-2011 - SECONDARy SChOOl, ‘G. MARCONI’ (IT)
Scientific lyceum diploma
Final grade: 100/100
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
2017- 2019 - AIDARCHITECTEN (BE)
Junior architect - Orde van Architecten Vlaamse Raad
2017 - ALFIO BARABANI ARCHITECTS (IT)
Architectural internship
2015- 2016 - TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF EINDHOVEN (NL)
Student-assistant academic research ‘Industrial heritage Philips, Eindhoven’
2014- 2016 - TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF EINDHOVEN (NL)
Student-assistant freehand-drawing
WORKSHOPS | courses
2020 - DECOLONIAL SUMMER SCHOOL
‘The Communal, the Museum and the End of the Contemporary’
University College Roosevelt
2019 - ADVANCED RAMMED EARTH WORKSHOP
BC-as and Case Design
2019 - EARTH CONSTRUCTION WORKSHOP
Hasselt University and BC-as
competitions | EXHIBITIONS | PUBLICATION
2021 - PERMEANCE
DAAS artistic research exhibited at Casa Punto Croce, Venice (IT)
2016 - fINAlIST NOMINATION fOR ARChIpRIx NEDERLAND 2017
‘A brickyard deconstruction: the redevelopment of brickyard `Elden´ and the Meinerswijk landscape’
ACTIVISM | VOLUNTEERING
2020 - VAN ABBEMUSEUM OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART
Hostess
2020 - GENNEPER HOEVE, biodynamic circular farming
Volunteer
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