Faculty of Design Sciences, University of Antwerp is looking for workshop tutors with proposals to actively engage, through design, with a thought-provoking timely topic in a common adventure with an interdisciplinary group of about 17 master students, for one week.

Re-ACT by Design

Re-ACT by Design is the theme of an annual series of international workshop weeks for master students architecture, interior architecture, product development, heritage studies, urbanism and spatial planning, of the Faculty of Design Sciences at the University of Antwerp.

“It might be said that what is offered in research and education should be determined by the challenges that are being articulated in the lines of fracture of society itself.”

The aim of the international workshop weeks is to explore the power and capacity of design to tackle those lines of fracture and socially engage by design. Beyond re-search by design, students and tutors re-act by design.

How can design education not only address students, but also address those lines of fracture, and induce debates, provoke questions, and set an agenda?

The workshop is open to radical pedagogical experiences, which open the eyes, change sides and widen thinking. It stimulates crossing disciplinary boundaries. The international design workshop week is jointly curated by a team of students and faculty. It provides a forum for international exchange; simultaneously, it is an informal platform for discussing design education and its agency. This fourth edition investigates the potentials of commons.

Website: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/projects/international-design-workshops/call-2020/commons/