Designing module for Erasmus+ programme 'exploring transdisciplinary education’
Almar & Zina presenting the module at the RASL Multiplier Event in Rotterdam, NL. (September 2022)
Brûs contributed the module “Design Studio: Re-Imagining Futures of Learning” to one of the outputs of the outputs of the Erasmus+ project “Exploring Transdisicplinary Education combining Arts & Sciences”. This particular output is a Modular Transdisciplinary Student Programme that accumulates the knowledge of participating institutions about transdisciplinary education.
The publication is an online resource that rings together educational modules that have either been tried within a ‘pilot’ capacity, or thoroughly researched through literary sources. Other modules are contributed by our colleagues at the various institutions, who already teach transdisciplinary courses.
The Erasmus+ project is a collaboration between Rotterdam Arts and Sciences Lab (Willem de Kooning Academy University of Applied Sciences, Codarts, Erasmus University) and Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest.
Introduction to the Course Manual
“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not into fighting the old but building of the new” – Socrates
How can we reimagine education to meet the needs of future generations? Combining futures literacy, transition thinking, design and action-based education, this course asks students to radically reimagine (practices of) learning for tomorrow.
Students team up and bring together their collective intellect, personal experiences and their power of imagination to systematically deconstruct higher education, in order to come up with desirable alternatives.
In this course of 5 to 8 sessions, students start with fuzzy visions of future learning and craft them into concrete “learning experiences” that immerse others and make them reflect on higher education. They get creative freedom in deciding the topic (societal concern, theme, tension) and using design frames to develop experimental learning methods.
Continue reading at: https://publications-backend.rasl.nu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Modular-Transdisciplinary-Student-Programme-IO49.pdf (page 40)