The courses on offer in 2026/2027
Selection of courses offered to second-year bachelor students under the Common Domain programme. Each course runs for a full semester. The selection changes each year to reflect what students need, but the list below gives an idea of what Common Domain offer:
| Course | Material/ Technique |
|---|---|
| Ceramic Playground Hand-building, glazing and firing. Clay registers every touch, and seldom does what was intended. | CLAY |
| Demystifying Woodworking Disassemble a wooden object to learn how it was made, then construct something new from its parts. | WOOD |
(Many) Hands | METAL |
| Lithomania Printing from stone, alongside a collective herbarium of invented flora, composed a third each. | LITHO |
| Printed Work & Books Screen print, risograph, cyanotype, bookbinding. The book as an object revised through repeated looking. | |
| Material Letters Letterforms as constructions shaped by material and process, rather than shapes applied to a surface. | TYPE |
The Prosthetic Act of Drawing | DRAW |
| Su Su Su Studio Photography The studio as a site for constructing images: light, objects, staging, and a considerable amount of chance. | PHOTO |
| Film Script to screening — camera, lens, light, sound, edit, and an audience at the end of it. | FILM |
| Search & Destroy Recording, processing and releasing sound, organised around the question of what to leave out. | SOUND |
| Soundscape Made with musicians from the Royal Conservatoire: a theatre performance in which sound and image form one entity. | STAGE |
| Smell Scent as artistic material — memory, emotion and the perception of space, with nothing to look at. | SMELL |
| Somatic Design Somatic exercise as a design method. Bring a project that is already underway. | BODY |
| HackLab Reverse engineering, circuit bending, system disruption: hacking reframed as practice-based research. | HACK |
Collective Reading and Writing | READ |
Common Place
How to choose and register for a course
Before you choose your courses, a Common Place event takes place in the KABK galleries, where all the teachers present themselves, show examples of the work their courses produce, and explain what each one involves. You move between them and ask questions, in order to make an informed choice.
Registration follows in Osiris. You list six courses in order of preference, and a placement round allocates you to two of them, one for each semester. Every second-year student receives a place, and your trajectory for the whole year is settled from the outset.
Questions?
Contact
For questions about Common Domain you can write to commons@kabk.nl