Studio and Workshop Courses
Studio and workshop courses on various topics of pictorial and plastic design under the direction of the Department of Visual Arts.The courses take place in different formats, on a weekly basis or as block courses. Successful participation is confirmed by a certificate of attendance. The certificate is not graded. By presenting two certificates, participants can register for an examination and have an ungraded 3 ECTS elective 'Studio and Workshop Course' recognized. You can only participate in one course per term.
Working with structural steel
Metals are a decisive element of structural engineering and architectural design. The variety of metals and their alloys can serve a wide range of tasks. A material frequently used in steel construction and in building locksmithery is the unalloyed general structural steel, whose properties are mainly determined by its carbon content. The course is an introduction to working with structural steel.
Things from bamboo
The content of the workshop course is the playful examination of the material and getting to know its structure and properties. In the process of working on a quite 'stubborn' material, the participants practice the sensible use of tools and creative methods.
Model Making
The workshop internship will focus primarily on handicraft methods of manual model making. The participants learn and deepen tried and tested ones. During the model building process, new approaches and solutions to problems can also be developed in individual cases.
The first model will be a solid model on a scale of 1/200. The focus here will be on processing and joining techniques appropriate to the material as well as the experimental modification of model surfaces.
The second model will be a cut-out model of the solid model on a scale of 1/50.
BW Laboratory - Pinhole camera
In the aesthetics of photography, analog technologies are formative. But also in photography itself it is valuable to deal with them. To digital photography, in which the photographer seems to always have the 'programmed image' under control, analog photography represents a material antithesis.
The magic of analog photography lies in the aesthetics of the film material, in images that are 'imperfect'. Typical 'errors' in exposing to film, blurring, incidence of light, under- or overexposure contribute to this.
Nude Drawing
This course is designed to learn and refine basic drawing techniques, practice spatial imagination, and spatial representation. Capturing human proportions, postures, and movements in space are drawing challenges that can be met through a variety of means.
Time, space, scale, proportion, body use, point of view, material and tools are players during the three-hour sessions, in which drawing on the model is practiced in guided steps.