personal detail
name : Nitipak Samsen
date of birth : 15 April 1979
nationality : Thai
E-mail : dotmancando@gmail.com, nitipak.samsen@network.rca.ac.uk, dot@haque.co.uk
Phone : +44(0)78-6412-5196
education
2007-now : Royal College of Art : MA Design interactions
1996-2000 : Silpakorn University : B.Arch Bachelor of Architecture
work experiences
Nov 2009 - now, Haque Design + Research
Jul 2009 - Sep 2009, part-time working with Haque Design + Research on Natural Fuse project.
Mar 2009 - Apr 2009, part-time working with Haque Design + Research on Natural Fuse project.
July 2008 - September 2008 : worked as internship at haque :: design + research
July 2004 – July 2007 : worked as exhibition designer at Tabbinn Studio.
July 2004 : Set up small studio with other 3 Thai designers named as “Tabbinn Studio”
April 2004 – May 2004 : lived my life as a monk in Cholaprathan temple, Thailand.
Sep 2002 – April 2004 : worked as exhibition designer at B.U.G. Studio, Thailand.
Sep 2001 – July 2002 : worked as freelance architect and exhibition designer.
selected exhibitions
30 oct - 03 Nov 2009, The Buttons & BuyProduct exhibition, DESIGNTIDE TOKYO 2009, Tokyo Midtown Hall, Tokyo, Japan.
08 Oct - 13 Dec 2009, Coin Flipper & BuyProduct exhibition, WHAT IF... FUTURE FORM, FUTURE FUNCTION?, Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
24 – 27 Sep 2009, BuyProduct exhibition, Disruptive Thinking, as part of 100% Design London, London, UK.
17 Sep - 7 Nov 2009, Natural Fuse exhibition as part of Toward The Sentient City by Architecture League New York, USA.
09 July 2009: Test_Lab: What Crisis?! at V2 Institute for unstable media, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Jun 2009: Show Two, Royal College of Art, London, UK.
May2009: Show&Tell, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK.
May2009: Futuresonic 2009, Manchester, UK. (as part of Haque: design+research)
Jan 2009: "Work in progress" exhibition, Design Interactions, the Royal College of Art.
April 2002: Future Conceptual Design in Architecture exhibition, Thailand.
April 2000: Selected as a representative thesis for faculty of architecture, Silpakorn university, Thailand.
talks
1 Nov 2009, DESiGN NiPPON 09, Tokyo, Japan
25 Sep 2009, Coin Flipper talk, This happened... London#8, London, UK.
18 Sep 2009, Natural Fuse talk with Usman Haque, Presented as part of the public program series organized in conjunction with the Architectural League’s fall 2009 exhibition, USA.
09 July 2009, Test_Lab: What Crisis?! at V2 Institute for unstable media, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
selected publications
18 Aug 2009: Coin Flipper was blogged in http://blog.makezine.com
03 Aug 2009: BuyProduct ws blogged in www.nextnature.net
July 2009: BuyProduct in RCA Sustainable Showcase.
10 July 2009: The Buttons was blogged in www.nextnature.net
06 July 2009: BuyProduct was blogged in www.dezeen.com
EDGE magazine, March/2009
awards
June 2009 BuyProduct was nominated for RCA Sustainability Showcase
June 2009 BuyProduct was nominated for Conran Foundation Awards 2009
April 2002 Third prize in ASA( the Associate of Siamese Architect) design competition : Future Conceptual Design in Architecture
April 1999 Third prize in ASA( the Associate of Siamese Architect) design competition : French Embassy Bangkok.