Last week, we were asked to go back to the Willem de Kooning Academy (artschool Rotterdam) to teach a project week. It was cool to be back at the place where we met about ten years ago. Back then we were class-ditching, coffee-drinking, totally infantile wannabe-rebels. But this time we were forced to loose the attitude, and be serious about design, concepts, presentation and attendance.
I think we pulled it off..
The project was about cultural diversity, so we sent our students out on the streets of Rotterdam and made them collect images, ideas, food and what not. Demanding as we are, we expected a finished product to come out of this urban adventure after just four days!! Which was quite ambitious for the amount of time, but nothing in this life comes easy..
After a few days of hard work, the students had to present their piece, and the outcome was quite surprising. Some pieces were experimental and abstract, and others were more defined and finished. See the stop motion movie below and find out what happens when granny goes on a holiday for the first time (!) in her life. Inspired by the trashy streets of Rotterdam.
After office hours we refound the attitude and it was bbq-time in the park... with a big fire and of course a 'visit' of some cops. Oh sweet spring! And oooh sweet smell of smoke and burned sausages in hair, clothes and uhmm.. everything!
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