Light, Views, Transparencies: A Daylight talk by Liene Jākobsone
The 2024 Daylight Talk series kicks off with ‘Light, Views, Transparencies’ by Liene Jākobsone in collaboration with the Art Academy of Latvia.
Dina Suhanova, researcher at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture at the Art Academy of Latvia will present the talk and moderate the Q&A session.
‘Daylight Talks’ is organised by the VELUX Group in collaboration with individual schools of architecture and they are endorsed by the International Union of Architects (UIA) and the European Association for Architectural Education (EAAE).
Daylight Talk #18: Light, Views, Transparencies with Liene Jākobsone
Discussing some of the practice’s projects, the lecture will reveal a significant part of the conceptual approach of Sampling: the exploration of how architecture unfolds in the eyes of its inhabitants and what unexpected and unusual experiences it can offer.
Daylight Talk #18 will be held live at the RISEBA Architecture and Design Faculty on 15 February at 13:00 and will available to watch on the D/A website from 29 February 2024.
About Liene Jākobsone
Liene Jākobsone is the founding partner of the architecture and design office Sampling – an architecture and design practice that works interdisciplinary, internationally, and conceptually. It is led by Liene Jākobsone and Manten Devriendt, who founded the practice in 2010. Sampling has carried out a vast range of projects: buildings and reconstructions of various kinds of program, development concepts for larger territories, as well as exposition and product designs. Its projects have been extensively published, and received a number of awards, prizes and other kinds of recognitions.
Liene Jākobsone is actively involved also in academia. She chairs the Institute of Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture of the Art Academy of Latvia; she holds a PhD degree, a master’s degree in design, and a diploma in architecture. She collaborates internationally on research projects and lectures at the Art Academy of Latvia as well as other universities in Europe. Liene is a frequent speaker also in non-academic public events, where she contributes with her multidisciplinary knowledge and capacity to captivate the attention of various audiences.
About Sampling
Sampling is an architecture and design practice that works interdisciplinary, internationally and conceptually. It is lead by Liene Jākobsone and Manten Devriendt, who founded the practice in 2010. Sampling has carried out a vast range of projects: buildings and reconstructions of various kinds of program, development concepts for larger territories, as well as exposition and product designs. Its projects have been extensively published, and received a number of awards, prizes and other kinds of recognitions. Both partners are also active in the international academia by lecturing, hosting creative workshops, conducting research and publishing texts.
Working on different scales in their everyday practice leads Sampling to the inevitable fusion of design, architecture and even landscaping into their projects. However, the focus is always on the relationship between people, space and the environment, in attempt to influence the perception of space. In their practice, Liene Jākobsone and Manten Devriendt also seek new architecture forms and expressions within the context of contemporary technological and aesthetical challenges, considering themselves a of the defining forces behind the development of the field of architecture.
About Dina Suhanova
Dina Suhanova is currently a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture at the Art Academy of Latvia. Dina holds a Diploma in Architecture and a Master of Arts in History and Theory of Art and Culture. In addition to several years of architectural practice, from 2012 to 2019 Dina worked at the RISEBA University of Applied Sciences as a lecturer, project manager and Director of the Architecture Programme. Since then, her interests have turned towards processes, research and activities related to contemporary architectural culture and work with various interdisciplinary projects. In 2019, Dina was the co-curator of the international conference “Architecture of Migration”, organised by the Latvian Association of Architects as part of the International Union of Architects forum in Riga. Dina has also co-edited numerous academic publications and is a frequent contributor to local and international journals – in 2023 she was the guest editor of the 164th issue of “Latvijas Architektūra” magazine. From 2018, Dina leads and organises the architects’ summer school “FestivaL’and” and together with Dagnija Smilga, Dina is the curator of the architectural talk series SALONS.
Dina is frequently invited as an expert in the field of architecture education evaluation. She is one of the lecturers and course authors of the Professional Master’s Degree in Architecture programme being prepared at the Art Academy of Latvia.
About LMDA
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture was founded in 2021 to pursue research in the field of humanities and contemporary arts in Latvia positioning it in a broader international context. LMDA plays a vital role in ensuring the exchange of knowledge and ideas on a local and global scale, creating a network of collaboration, actively participating in the study process, educating, and involving the academy’s students in scientific and other activities of the institute.
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture is one of the research units of the Art Academy of Latvia – the leading arts and design university in Latvia for more than 100 years.
