The role that the physical environment plays in value creation is changing. Place is becoming an ever more critical role in people’s willingness to come and spend time in a given environment. There are vital linkages between place-making and place maintenance. This session will discuss the emergence …

EU president Ursula von der Leyen wants Europe to tap into its inner avant-garde. In her inaugural State of the Union speech from September 16, 2020, she pledged to revive the historical Bauhaus - the experimental art school that married artistic form with functional design, founded a century ago in …

One could write an alternative history of the Western modern arts as a struggle with industrialization. In this history, there would be almost no connection between classical fine art painting to the modern arts, but it would start with medieval craftsmanship, continue with the Arts & Crafts movement …

Het curriculum van het basisjaar van de meeste Nederlandse kunst-(vak-) opleidingen is anno 2009 (nog steeds) sterk geënt op het leren omgaan met de formele “elements of design” zoals die o.a. door Johannes Itten in de Bauhaus Vorkurs rond 1930 al experimenterend werden ontwikkeld. Je mag dit gerust …