Xplore Design Week is the annual radical design experience organized by the Department of Product Development at the Faculty of Design Sciences. Xplore Design Week is part of the International Design Workshop week (IDW) and combines in-depth workshops with lectures and activities for and by students.
Xplore Design Week specifically targets bachelor students (2nd and 3rd year) of product development and aims to explore and/or deepen innovative or alternative design skills and techniques. Several workshops are organized by national and international guest tutors. Students choose one of the workshops based on an abstract and commit to a week of intensive group research and design. During this week, we create an active and open learning environment with room for radical pedagogical approaches in which students work on daily outputs and/or work towards a final product to be exhibited during the final exhibition.
WHAT WE LOOK FOR
We are looking for workshop tutors that are eager to participate in an engaging design exploration with a group of 15 to 18 students.
Here are some possible themes: new sketching or visualization techniques, maker workshops, exploratory workshops on themes suggested by the guest tutor, explorations in art, fashion, content creation team ...in short, anything that can inspire and deepen design! Be sure to visit previous editions for more inspiration around possible themes!
Are you ready to participate in a week-long design exploration with a group of bachelor students? Then submit your workshop proposal now!
WHAT WE OFFER
We offer a group of 15 to 18 bachelor students of product development to work with.
We offer a lump sum of 500 euro to cover fee, costs of transport and meals during your stay. For duo’s we can offer a lump sum of 800 euro. However, we can only afford a limited number of duo tutored workshops.
For international tutors we can offer hotel accommodation from Sunday 9 February until Saturday 15 February 2025.
SUBMISSION
By 31 October 2024 a workshop proposal is submitted through this link.
This submission contains:
- The title of the proposed workshop
- A description of the topic and the workshop, in which the proposal is clear (max. 2000 characters, including spaces), including a paragraph about how you will involve the different disciplines of the students
- A short biography (max. 800 characters, including spaces)
- Three images, representative for the topic / your approach / your work
- A picture of yourself
- Whether you are willing to give a Pecha Kucha presentation during the week
ENQUIRIES
Enquiries related to submission and content: kristof.vaes@uantwerpen.be
Enquiries related to organization and practicalities of the workshop: idw@uantwerpen.be
ORGANIZATION
XDW is organized by the Faculty of Design Sciences of the University of Antwerp.
Prof. dr. Inge Bertels -- Dean
Pieter Caris -- Faculty Director
Kristof Vaes -- Curator
Evelien Van Akeren -- Project officer XDW-IDW / Communication
Nele Simons -- Coordinator internationalization / Communication