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Andrea Cammarosano, who obtained his PhD in the Arts in 2025, published in the October 2025 issue of Forum+.

In his contribution, “Creativity and collaboration in fashion education. Languages, skills, and methodologies in a collaborative learning approach,” he highlights how creativity in fashion is not only about individual talent or personal vision, but also about how people exchange ideas, combine skills, and collaborate to create something new.

You can read the full contribution here: https://forum-online.be/en/issues/oktober-2025/creativity-and-collaboration-in-fashion-education

On March 5th, the Science at the Fair team invites you all to the Huis van Alijn museum attic for an inspiring round-table discussion about the book Foorwonder.

👀 Get a behind-the-scenes look at the Foorwonder book and see how science at the fair became a form of popular entertainment and knowledge sharing.

-- NEW CALLS for PhD fellowships at ARIA --
The calls for PhD proposals at Sint Lucas Antwerpen and the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, starting in September 2026, have been published!
Deadline for application: March 2026
Read all about it:

How to apply for a PhD position | Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts | University of Antwerp PhD fellowships at the Schools of Arts The PhD candidate is an artist or a designer and holds a relevant Master’s degree (or equally) in the study areas of Music, Performing Arts or Fine Arts. Applicants are expected to conduct research that explores issues or methodologies situated in or proceedi...

Method/Art 2026 - The THRESHOLD of CO-CREATION - 30 & 31 March 2026 - Royal Conservatory Antwerp and Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp

-- CALL FOR PROPOSALS --
Deadline for applications > January 25th 2026

Within the spectrum of autopoiesis towards symbiosis, where does the threshold of co-creation lie? When can we really speak of co-creation?

Read more at https://www.methodartseminar.com/ and https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-groups/aria/activities/research-seminars/methodart2026/

Method/Art 2026 | Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts | University of Antwerp 30 & 31 March 2026 - Royal Conservatoire & Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp ​Research seminar initiated by Vivi Touloumidi, Umut Eldem and Adilia Yip​Within artistic research, the artist-researcher often oscillates between autonomy and entanglement. Conducting research therefore, can be itse...

🛎️CALL FOR PROPOSALS🛎️
The fifth edition of the Convergence seminar will focus on technological co-creation in interdisciplinary arts
March 23 & 24, 2026 - Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
> Deadline for applications: January 9th 2026 <

Convergence | Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts | University of Antwerp 23 & 24 March 2026 - Royal Conservatoire AntwerpInitiated by Umut Eldem, Giusy Caruso, Sara Simionato, D**o Sondervan  The fifth edition of the Convergence seminar will focus on technological co-creation in interdisciplinary arts. Researchers, artists, and anyone currently engaging with this subjec...

Museum At Risk, een collectief van kunstenaars, curatoren en culturele werkers, organiseert een dag vol lezingen, reflectie en actie in het M HKA onder de titel ‘Museum (Without) Shelter – Lezingenmarathon’.

Conceptual, Performative, Pedagogical
Teaching Artist Conference
→ Mon 20 & Tue 21 October, 18:00 – 20:00
→ Lange Zaal Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
A two-evening symposium on teaching artists
Organised by Yuki Okumura
With Simon Asencio, Feiko Beckers, Annaïk Lou Pitteloud, and Luka Savić
In collaboration with the Educational Master of Visual Arts

Read more at https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-groups/aria/activities/research-seminars/conceptual-performative-pedagogical/
and at https://www.ap-arts.be/en/node/5290

Conceptual, Performative, Pedagogical
Teaching Artist Conference
→ Mon 20 & Tue 21 October, 18:00 – 20:00
→ Lange Zaal Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp

A two-evening symposium on teaching artists
Organised by Yuki Okumura
With Simon Asencio, Feiko Beckers, Annaïk Lou Pitteloud, and Luka Savić

In collaboration with the Educational Master of Visual Arts

How can the conceptual and the performative support artistic teaching?
PhD researcher Yuki Okumura invites four artists with teaching experience at art academies in Bern, Ghent, Ljubljana, and Marseille to share methods, reflections, and visions.

This event grows out of Okumura’s elective course ‘Performance’ at the , where students experiment with self-instructed simple actions - in the legacy of conceptual art, experimental music, and postmodern dance - to open up unexpected relations between self and world.

→ Part of the research festival ARTICULATE 2025 I What if...?

https://www.ap-arts.be/evenement/conceptual-performative-pedagogical-teaching-artist-conference

Beyond Binary
Non-Dual Perspectives on Art and Technology
→ Thu 23 & Fri 24 October, 09:30 – 17:00
→ MEDAA, Brussels
Two-day seminar
Organised by Kristof Timmerman & Steven Humblet (Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp) in collaboration with ARIA

Read more at https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-groups/aria/activities/research-seminars/beyond-binary/
and at https://www.ap-arts.be/en/node/5294

Beyond Binary
Non-Dual Perspectives on Art and Technology

→ Thu 23 & Fri 24 October, 09:30 – 17:00
→ MEDAA, Brussels

Two-day seminar
Organised by Kristof Timmerman & Steven Humblet (Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp) in collaboration with ARIA

With talks, panels, and a workshop by
Kristof Timmerman, Steven Humblet, Koenraad Jonckheere, Martina Menegon, Marcel Van Brakel, David Young,Victorine Van Alphen, Ilona Puskás, Vanessa Hannesschläger, and CREW
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This seminar brings together artists, thinkers, and researchers to reflect on how emerging technologies challenge binary paradigms – digital/analogue, material/immaterial, real/virtual – and how such opposites may instead be deeply intertwined.

By adopting non-dual, beyond-binary thinking, we can expand both philosophically and ethically in our engagement with technology – reimagining the boundaries of art, technology, and thought.

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→ Part of the research festival ARTICULATE 2025 I What if...?
Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp

More info:
https://www.ap-arts.be/evenement/beyond-binary-non-dual-perspectives-art-and-technology

📷 Quantum Drawings – Images based on data from quantum computers. 2021 – present, David Young