Join us for the Piet Zwart Institute (PZI) open day which will take place on Saturday February 15, from 10am–3pm.
Throughout the day, both the Willem de Kooning Academy (WdKA) and the Piet Zwart Institute (PZI) master studio spaces will be open to the public. It is a day when many PZI staff and students are present to answer your questions. Some of our master programmes will hold presentations, and it is also a time when the six WdKA stations (workshops) located throughout the WdKA Blaak 10 and Wijnhaven 61 buildings are open for you to roam in and out of, giving you a better idea of our current facilities.
The Piet Zwart Institute houses four full-time master programmes, Interior Architecture: Research + Design (MIARD); Master of Arts in Fine Art and Design, which encompasses Fine Art (MFA) Lens-Based Media (LB) and Experimental Publishing (XPUB).
And two part-time Master programmes, Education in Arts (MEiA) and Master Design.
Master Fine Art
Location: Wijnhaven 61, fourth floor, open space
The Piet Zwart Institute Master Fine Art will be represented by Course Director Danny Giles and their second year students in Wijnhaven. They will give information and you can sift through their graduation projects. There will be presentations at 10:30h and 12:30h.
Lens-based Media
Location: Wijnhaven 61, fourth floor, Lensbased studios
The Master of Arts in Fine Art & Design: Lens-Based Media program focuses primarily on artistic and experimental lens-based practices (both still and moving image/animation) that embrace the use of artifice, formal and technical innovation, fictional strategies and other unconventional visual approaches to create new and meaningful visions of the world.
We support visions that seek to move beyond the conventional narratives of our society and create new impetus in the viewer towards an open-eyed engagement with myriad challenges humans (and non-humans) collectively face in a world saturated with disinformation, increasing polarisation and fragmentations of communities, centuries-old political and social injustices, marginalisation of the most vulnerable, and a rapidly degrading global environment.
Experimental Publishing (XPUB)
Locations: Wijnhaven 61, fourth floor, XPUB studios
Join us, staff and students of XPUB on Saturday February 15. We will be around from 10:00 to 15:00. You can find us on the 4th floor in the WdKA/PZI building at Wijnhaven 61, Rotterdam.
Can’t make it in person on the 15th?
ONLINE OPEN DAY: Tuesday 11 FEB, See: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/openday for times and details
A two-year master focussed on the acts of making things public and creating publics in the age of post-digital networks.
When do oracles receive bicycles with libraries? Where can notebooks address protocols on publishing houses? How can administrators explore interviews in plotter parties? Why do bots jam with social shelves about festivals? How can notebooks transmit tools in festivals? When do oracles hack counter-action strategies about publishing houses? Why do collectives situate first-aid kits at workshops? Where can note takers write wikidata on squats? How can bots gender vernacular tools with publishing houses? Where can social justice warriors hack radios in archives? When do bodies write conflicts at media labs? How can gardeners read vernacular tools on public benches? Where can social justice warriors read conflicts about telecom musea?
Interior Architecture: Research + Design [MIARD]
Location: Wijnhaven 61, fourth floor, MIARD studios WH4.312 and WH4.304
Saturday, February 15, 10.00 – 15.00
We warmly invite you to join us during our annual Open Day at MIARD. During the day you will get a chance to learn about the programme in detail, look through design and research material, and meet the people in our community. The course director and coordinator, tutors, students, and alumni will be present.
Programme:
MIARD presentation and circle conversation – by the course director with visitors at 11:00
Teachers – available to talk about their courses and professional practice
Open Studios – first-year and second-year students talk about their work
Alumni – talk about their study experience and life after graduation
Research and Reading – a community table and library
Facilities Tour – interested visitors tour the production Stations
To learn more about MIARD, you can visit our online archive to see the work of our students and alumni, review the recent program announcements, and see a list of the exhibitions, awards, and publications, here.
Can’t make it in person on the 15th?
Join our Online Information session on Wednesday February 05 at 16:00 (CET)
Or email us at: pzwart-info@hr.nl to make an appointment.
Education in Arts
Location: Wijnhaven 61, fourth floor, MEiA project space
Join us on at the Master of Education in Arts project space: we will be around from 10:00 to 15:00. You can find us on the 4th floor in the WdKA/PZI building at Wijnhaven 61, Rotterdam.
During the Open Day, the course presents itself by means of a small ‘exhibition’: course material as well as graduation research will be on display providing a detailed insight in the content and profile of the programme. There is ample time to talk to the course director, tutors and students and ask any questions you might have about the course! There is also time and space to discuss your possible application.
Is this date not working for you? Please visit one of our Open Information Meetings.
Research in Art & Design Education and Collective Practice
What is the significance of material practices and embodiment for artistic research and education? How can we develop an art-driven, interdisciplinary pedagogy within secondary education? What are the main challenges when it comes to forging transdisciplinary connections between the arts and sciences in education? What are the current developments with respect to art mediation in museums? How do pivotal topics like the climate crisis, intersectionality and decolonialization – influence our view on education in the future?
A learning community
We pay attention to contemporary developments in art and design education, considering it to be an expanded and interdisciplinary field that also includes socially engaged practices in art. The curriculum is designed for educators in the fields of secondary, vocational and higher arts and design education, educators in museums and community arts, as well as artists and designers with an interest in pedagogical practices. The course prepares graduates to engage with formal educational structures as well as with informal learning environments or collective practices. Peer learning and being part of a learning community is a key feature of our programme.
Master Design
Location: Wijnhaven 61, fourth floor, Room WH4.139
Based on their own design questions, students within the Master Design learn to do designerly and in-depth design research. They constantly reflect on what they discover and convey their work and expertise through storytelling. They combine and integrate this part-time master with their design practice, renew their own role and in this way that of creative professionals in society and organizations. They contribute to social, environmental and technological change. The combination of participatory work and authorship is fundamental.
Join us in our second Open Day to find out more on our course and get your questions answered.