P O R T -F O L I O

T H O M A S G A L V A N

2018

_ I N D E X

_ 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

_ C V

THOMAS GALVAN - INTERIOR DESIGNERVierambachtsstraat 40A, 3023 AP, Rotterdam NL

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30th August 1991

EDUCATION

EXHIBITIONS

WORKSHOPS

WORK EXPERIENCE

SOFTWARE SKILLS LANGUAGES

MASTER’S DEGREE IN INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE: RESEARCH + DESIGNPiet Zwart Institute - Hogeschool Rotterdam, Rotterdam NL

MASTER’S DEGREE IN INTERIOR DESIGN (1 YEAR)Politecnico di Milano, Milan IT

BACHELOR’S DEGREE IN INTERIOR DESIGNPolitecnico di Milano, Milan IT

GRADUATE AT TECHNICAL ARTISTIC INSTITUTEItas S. B. Boscardin, Vicenza IT

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 AttieWillem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam NL

INTERIORS, NATURE AND FOOD with Cooking SectionsWillem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam NL

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 ORGANIZERDiocesan Museum, Vicenza IT Organization of visits and activities for primary school kids

Adobe InDesign

Adobe Premiere

Adobe After Effect

Adobe Illustrator

ITALIAN Native proficiency

ENGLISH Full professional proficiency

FRENCH Limited working proficiency

SPANISH Limited working proficiency

OCTOBER 2014 - JULY 2015

MARCH 2018

JUNE 2014 - JUNE 2015

JUNE 2010 - AUGUST 2010

SEPTEMBER 2016 - JULY 2018

MAY 2018

NOVEMBER 2015 - JULY 2016

OCTOBER 2018

MARCH 2018

MARCH 2018

FEBRUARY 2018 - JUNE 2018

OCTOBER 2011 - JULY 2014

APRIL 2015

SEPTEMBER 2005 - JULY 2011

Adobe Photoshop

Autodesk 3DS Max

Google Sketchup

Autodesk AutoCAD

Microsoft Office

Keyshot

Adobe Fuse

_ T H E N E X T E V O L U T I O N

2 0 1 8

S peculative 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.

- 2018 MIARD Alumni Research Award- Dutch Design Week 2018

HERE to watch the video

The design project is told and experienced by two characters, both living in 2030. @Zarathustra 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.

_ R O B O T A N D H U M A N C I T Y

2 0 1 7

S peculative 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”

HERE to watch the video

MALL & COLOURS LEARNING EXPERIENCE CENTER

ART CENTERRESTAURANT & FOOD LEARNING

EXPERIENCE CENTER

MALL & COLOURS LEARNING

RESTAURANT & FOOD LEARNING

ART CENTER

_ G E E S T O P D E F L E S

2 0 1 8

R esearch 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”

HERE to watch the video

_ C u T H R O U G H2 0 1 7

P r o d u c t D e s i g n

“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 thestructure 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.

HERE to watch the video

s u b - p r o j e c t :C O N T A C T L A M P

“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.

_ P I E N I V U O T I2 0 1 5

S c e n i c D e s i g n

Scenography on poverty. A row of lightblue houses on the streets of Tokyo. Theinitiative of human victory against thepower of capital. The homeless are testedevery day by extreme life conditions andthey 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 theman, where everything is concentrated in 4m². The constant state of temporary, humblespaces and the illusion of a real house.The eastern accuracy is the centre of thehabitat: the typical habitation of thehomeless is a concentration of objects

that compose the spaces. Wood, plastic andtape, with elegance and lightness, create

a dramatic scenery of misery.

At the sides of the principal constructionthere are two no-places represented by

insubstantial shapes and impalpable light.The dream of stability, richness and apermanent dwelling are represented by avoid recoverable just with illusions. Anambience full of objects of low monetaryvalue conflicts with emptiness: and hence

“pienivuoti” (full-empty).

- Project exhibited at Milan Design Week 2015

HERE to watch the video

_CONCEPT STORE RETROGARDE - GLASS SHOP

2 0 1 4

R e t a i l D e s i g n

Starting from the general concept, andestablishing a link between past and

future, the project presents traditionaltechniques like furnace processing,

lamp-work, glass paste working and manualdecoration.

The relation with the future represented via the presence of new technologies. There are

two main machines: KUKA, a robot’s armable to decorate and/or to colour three-

dimensional 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 mainareas: sales/exhibition zone and workshop/realization zone. The glass shop is an all

white-space meant to exalt the colours of theproducts exposed. Several glass structuresare placed opposite the windows in orderto

create seducing plays of light.

_GYÖRGY KEPES: BALANCE (EQUILIBRIO)

2 0 1 4

R e s e a r c h D e s i g n / V i d e o

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.

HERE to watch the video

_ P O N G2 0 1 3

Interior Design / Illustration

The concept of the project is based on therebound of the ideas and a rapid discussion,like in table tennis. This is because thebusiness incubator is a place where people

can develop their projects helpedby others who have specific knowledge abouta 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.

_ A D R I A N O 5 12 0 1 2

I n t e r i o r D e s i g n

The building is locatedin 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 2is 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.

_ T H E R O O M O F R E A S O N

2 0 1 2

S p e c u l a t i v e D e s i g n

“The Room of the Reason” is closely related tothe comparison between, and the inability to

divide, rationality and irrationality.This contrast becomes the focal point ofthe project which takes shape in a space

bounded by a grid that creates very geometricforms equally sized, which is broken by a

central repetitive scheme.

The installation placed in the center isformed by a series of transparent wires onwhich colour drops remain imbedded: when theobserver takes the path can not understand

their meaning because of the walls,which hide a direct view of the figure thatappears by looking from the right point of

view (by willing to follow the order geometric plans).

The figure formed is a clock: an element thatdivides time in a rational way, but which isrepresented 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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