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<\/a>\nName:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Nacho Carbonell
\nAge:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>45
\nProfession:\u00a0<\/strong>Designer
\nLiving in Eindhoven since:\u00a0<\/strong>2005<\/p>\n
Spanish designer Nacho Carbonell came to Eindhoven in 2005 graduated Cum Laude at the Design Academy in 2007. After that, he won several international awards, had expositions in Londen, Miami and Madrid among others, but never left his studio in Eindhoven.<\/p>\n
\u2018When I came here there were just three guys living in the Klokgebouw\u2019 \u201cI came here after I graduated as a technical engineer in Valencia. I had been graduated for three years but felt like I needed to develop myself further. I wanted to put myself in a new world that would challenge me as a designer. I found that at the Design Academy in Eindhoven. They taught me to think outside the patterns of traditional design. That coincided with the way I was working in Eindhoven, having to pay virtually no rent at all for a home and a studio, which led to some sort of rebel way of designing.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2018We are a long way from those days\u2019 \u201cThe city in itself seems to be very structured. I think it still misses a place where people can meet, work and mingle in an organic way. Now it\u2019s like this. If you\u2019re a designer: Go to Strijp. If you\u2019re a technician, go to High Tech Campus or TU\/e, if you\u2019re young and you want to party: Go to Stratum. There\u2019s too much structured placing in the city, which conflicts the sort of rebel nature of art and design.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2018You can\u2019t change a city\u2019s DNA in just ten years\u2019 \u2018All expats think of going back someday\u2019 \u2018The Dutch always have a plan, except for when it\u2019s lunchtime maybe\u2019 \u201cThe one thing you guys don\u2019t seem to have a plan for, is lunchtime. You just eat a sandwich and be done with it. I try to implement a little of Spain in our studio. At lunch, we cook and sit around, take our time and make conversation. That\u2019s something Dutch people could learn from us: Leave the sandwich at home.\u201d<\/p>\n This was the final interview in the series of interviews with expats. Have a look at the other articles\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The expat top-10 aims the spotlight on the internationals that help Eindhoven progress. E52 sat down with each winning expat to talk about their experiences and perspective on the city they once came to, and never got away from. 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\n<\/strong>\u201cImagine that: three guys having the entire Klokgebouw to themselves. I visited them and they were running around in the big empty halls, having parties and creating art and design. Myself, I had an empty church to work in, together with some collaborators we were working on our designs while Jesus was watching us in the corner. It was an amazing time to arrive in Eindhoven, when everything was so open and free.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cI think the city has become too structured. Since the city has picked up design as one of their main pillars they have started to create spots were design should happen: mostly Strijp. But it seems they also found out that there\u2019s money to be made from design. So now, Strijp-S has become this perfectly structured expensive area. I still love to go there, but it has lost its wild touch, which is a shame I think.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cIt\u2019s amazing how much has changed in the past ten years. To me it\u2019s a 360-degrees turn to what it was. Then, living in the Klokgebouw was cheap, virtually no cost, now it will probably cost you into millions of Euros. It has changed so fast, sometimes I think the people didn\u2019t have the time to change with it. As a city, you can try and create these sort of industrial design areas like Strijp, but if business is in the city\u2019s DNA, like it is in Eindhoven, the area is bound to be exploited in that way.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cBut it\u2019s a question of when and how. I\u2019ve built up a lot over the years, it\u2019s hard to give that up. I do often think about settling down somewhere but I have no idea if Eindhoven is the end of the road for me. I would like to own something. I\u2019ve always rented against low cost, never actually bought a property. So if I end up not being able to be rent I\u2019m going to be in the streets with all this stuff I\u2019ve created over the years.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cIt\u2019s a quality I\u2019ve come to appreciate and love. In Spain, a building would probably be empty for years before it gets sold or destroyed. Here, an owner will say: I\u2019ll let you live in it for free, as long as you\u2019re responsible for the maintenance and give it back to me after an amount of time. That\u2019s a much more respective approach to the building than just letting something rot away.\u201d<\/p>\n