IDW 2025 | 10 - 14 February 2025 | WHIMSICALITY
IDW 2025 aims at shedding a positive and bright light on the future through WHIMSICALITY. Whimsicality is about infusing joy, wonder, and creativity, it’s about thinking outside the box and embracing the unexpected. Whimsicality in art and design can act as a coping mechanism, providing moments of lightheartedness and joy amidst difficult circumstances. So let’s use our joyful imagination, our delightful creativity, our playful thinking, and our unconventional ideas to explore future enchanting possibilities. Let’s design our future in a whimsical way. You ready?
- Organized by the Faculty of Design Sciences (University of Antwerp) in collaboration with the Royal Academy of Fine Arts.
- You will be assigned to the workshop of your choice.
Target Group
Master students Design Sciences (architecture, interior architecture, product design, urban planning, heritage studies) and Art.
Campus
IDW 2025 will take place at Campus Mutsaard, Mutsaardstraat 31, 2000 Antwerp.
Micro-credential and study credits (ECTS)
3 ECTS
Successful completion of the winter school can be awarded with 3 credits according to the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS).
Credits will be awarded by the University of Antwerp on the base of 100 % (active) participation during the course.
To include the credits in the curriculum at the home institution, participants need an agreement with the responsible person at their university. A certificate will be awarded at the end of the programme. All certificates of completion are issued as a micro-credential.
Learning outcomes
- The student is able to realize in group, from a conceptual approach, an original design/design research that offers a qualitative answer to the question.
- The student can develop a personal vision and introduce this into the group process.
- The student can think and act interdisciplinary.
- The student can adopt a critical attitude with respect to prevailing visions in the domain, "thinking outside the box”.
- The student can translate civic engagement in design solutions and vice versa.
- The student is aware of his/her own (cultural) frame of reference and his/her own world view, and (s)he can relate this to other views or perspectives.
- The student can understand extended speech and lectures, spoken in another language than his/her mother tongue (English) and related to his/her field of study. (S)he can subsequently deduce the main rationale of the argument.
- The student can report in a consistent manner and based on arguments about the process of the workshop week, both in words and pictures.