Leto Keunen is a Belgian designer, currently studying Contextual Design at Design Academy Eindhoven. She has a bachelor's and master's degree in Product Design.
Leto explores and reveals the relationship between objects, design and the social realm. In doing so, she focuses on gender narratives, normative frameworks and power structures in public space.
EDUCATION
2023 - Present
Design Academy Eindhoven
Master Contextual Design
Master Contextual Design
LUCA School Of Arts
Master Product Design
Master Product Design
(Magna Cum Laude)
LUCA School Of Arts
Bachelor Product Design
Bachelor Product Design
EXHIBITIONS
2023
Dutch Design Week
De Fabriek, Eindhoven
Curation and featured work
‘Post-Industrial Crafts: Re-Shaped’
Design Museum Brussels
2022
Exhibition “Bewoners van het Werkhuis”
WERKHUIS Genk
2022 & 2021
Young up-and-coming talent from LUCA in the JUTTU window display
JUTTU X LUCA
2020
Exhibition Hacktivate the city: wearable technology
I Love Science Festival
BOZAR & GLUON
WORKSHOPS
2023
Supervision of a collaborative designworkshop: Workshop Urban Safe Space - in context of my master thesis
Organisational partners: KUNSTHAL Gent & In Gent
2022
Supervision of a collaborative designworkshop with pre- and post-consumer waste at Parckfarm in Brussels
LIVABLE Platform & Building Beyond Borders
2021
Workshop decolonization and unsustainable development in context of upcoming exhibition Z33
Supervised by Virginia Tassinari & Z33
2021
C-mine coal workshop, a research into the cultural and social history of the mining site
Supervised by Studio Plastique
2020
Summer Isolation Workshop
LIVABLE - Supervised by Sep Verboom
2019
Sustainable Transformation Seminar Day
Exploring the Arts and Creativity in stimulating innovation and technologies with a human touch
Collaboration between Aalto, S+T+ARTS, European Commission, Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordisk Kultufond, BOZAR
2019
Hacktivate the city: wearable technology lab
BOZAR & GLUON
PERFORMANCES
2023 - Present
FRICTION
Passerelle
Performed at Villa Basta, Hasselt and Budascoop, Kortrijk
2023
Performance invisibible disabilities - endometriosis
Created by Fenia Proost
Performed at Z33
2019
The Office for Bureaucritic Imagination
Group collaboration with UHasselt Architecture and LUCA
WORK EXPERIENCE
2022
Internship
LIVABLE - Product Design & Development, Art Direction
Gent2023
Design for the interior of the coffee bar at Haren Prison (Brussels)
LIVABLE
Haren, Brussels
2022
Graphic design for the exhibition ‘Post-Industrial Crafts: Re- Shaped’
Design Museum Brussels
2019 - 2023
Passerelle - workshop for young dance
Allround administrative support and visual storytelling
SPARE TIME OCCUPATIONS
2022 - present
Residency, digital media and communication management
WERKHUIS Genk
2018-2023
Participation council LUCA School of Arts
department Product Design
