Winterschool Fontys Academy of the Arts by Jan Staes

Masterstudents from all disciplines will work together in this years ‘Winterschool’ at Fontys Academy of the Arts, creating your own Artistic Learning Space. This space is not just a physical location, it should be a dynamic environment where creativity, collaboration, and learning thrive. How does such a space look like? Smells like? Feels like? Inspired by concepts like the idea of the Third Place (Oldenburg, 1991), the Relational Space (Leibnitz, 1675) or the Pedagogical Space (Vigil, 2022), your challenge is to design a space that fosters meaningful interactions and innovative ideas for FAA.

Groep 8

Janne

Ward

Abel

Orshi

Ruben

Joris

Anouk

Geert

Linda

Ireri

Sufan

Vicky

Well being/ Comfort:

Ideas about upgrading the court yard as a third space.

Individuality and collabration:

In this space there is room to grow individualy and together.

Policy:

Everybody is equal and you dont have to fight for your rights. Feel free to do anything but it has to be legal.

Accessibility

Take care of everyone and you can come and go when ever you like.

Vulnerability

You can be yourself and you can feel vulnerable and any kind of emotion fits here.

Manifest

These are symbols that can be hung up in the third place as a reminder of the guidelines.

In wich our ideas about a place to relax, surrounded by nature, sport, where we can come and sit together, work together and have open performances for all students of all disciplines are combined and realized.

Collaboration

It’s important to make a habit of attending performances/exhibitions/lectures/workshops/events/open rehearsals from other artistic disciplines for various reasons:

By learning from other arts you learn their vocabulary, making it easier to start a conversation
It deepens your understanding what art can be, thus enrich your own art
It makes us more open as human beings

To make it easier we should have a platform to share our events, like regelloos.nl, but then in an even broader artistic sense with the aim to open up discussion. We should emphasize events like this that are inside the Fontys building, since we’re all together and there are lots of different rooms with possibilities.

We have three formats.

Website

Avantages: lots of different ways to upload things, like pictures, videos, links, calendar, papers
Disadvantage: takes a bit of work to set up, and especially to maintain, particularly the calendar

Physical room with calendar wall

This aligns with the method of the rest of our working group which is creating a physical room

Announcement group chat

Have one representative per discipline to have the right to send a newsletter of their performances, events, workshops, open rehearsals, lectures, exhibitions, anything
Rules: short messages, preferably just a flyer/photo, max ~50 words

Concept of open studio:

Create a save space like an ‘open studio’. It is a space where people can try their new material. This is for performers and art creators to show their practice. It would be interesting to show your own practice to other disciplines and get feedback/feedforward from people of other disciplines about how they experience it from there artistically point of view.

We should actively encourage people to step out of their bubble and attend events they wouldn’t usually go to.

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