In the week of 6-10 January 2025 BA Photography welcomed ten students and two lecturers from POLIS University (Albania) to join their annual workshop week as part of an Erasmus+ short blended exchange.
The chosen workshop “Out of Square”, was developed in collaboration with MA INSIDE, and taught by BA Photography lecturers Raimond Wouda and Danielle van Ark. Several students from MA INSIDE and BA Photography also joined this workshop, which made it an interesting group with different artistic backgrounds.
“Out of Square” workshop
The workshop aimed at a collaborative outcome in which photography and (interior and spatial) design complement each other. The main idea was to have the students connect stronger to their intuition and connection to space. To do so, their task was to experience a space, and respond to it while taking photographs.
During the feedback sessions, lecturers and students helped each other have a better understanding of what they experienced and take more notice of the environment around them so that they were more aware of their surroundings and the meaning they put to the photographs they took. The week also included a morning yoga class, a museum visit for inspiration, and concluded with physical presentations and a small exhibition.
INSIDE approach
BA Photography approach
The workshop week was a success and students enjoyed this departmental collaboration. They particularly enjoyed collectively exploring a specific space/place and through reflecting and produced work, thought of alternative ways and/or functions to experience and use the place/space they investigated. In this investigation they discovered how photographs and images at large can play a part in these processes and become incentives for design, its integral part, or an impact-activating documentation.
