Sampling has been reinterpreting music for decades. In contemporary art and new media, architecture is a commonly used backdrop, and many designers have been integrating other artistic expressions into their professional practice.
ADSL 2008 will explore the references from the worlds of landscape, architecture, engineering, interior design and monument care, and aims to investigate the power of a variety of images through a poetic and personal intuition in order to reach beyond the specific discipline.
The intra- or transdisciplinarity in-between as a form of “being” thus becomes an important statement. With no doesn’t mean without. On the contrary, it makes explicit the idea of a rooted concept, without making “reference” into an immediate final solution. In fact, it explains the idea of a context which surpasses the meaning of environment.
Therefore it becomes necessary to rethink and to reconsider well-known subjectivities from all kinds of random artistic fields such as literature, contemporary art, music ... to reinstall the proper discipline not just in terms of length, width and height, but in “depth”, and rooted in this contemporary context.
Curator ADSL Week 2008: Christian Kieckens
ANTWERP DESIGN SEMINARS AND LECTURES
The Antwerp Design Seminars Lectures are an international event taking place each year at the College of Design Sciences. Its aim is to stimulate cross boundary thinking in design and to familiarize students with an interdisciplinary approach to design problems.
The Antwerp Design Seminars and Lectures intend to act as a forum for faculty and student exchange on an international level. At the same time, it is an informal platform to discuss actual problems related to design education.
