WS#30 From line drawing to digital fabrication

More and more digital designing is being used within the art world. In what way do we ensure that our pupils, in art education, are still able to work in a traditional, artisanal way but also prepare themselves for the digital world. Read more...

WORKSHOPHOLDER
Navn	Erik van Alphen
Stilling	ICT and Technology teacher
Arbejdsplads	Theresialyceum, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Beskrivelse	After a bachelor's degree in industrial design I started teaching. For the past 10 years I have been teaching the subject Technology. During the technology lessons students learn how to make things. The past two years I have been a partner in the FABLAB SCHOOLS EU project. During these two years we co-developed a methodology for design thinking and digital fabrication. As a follow up I got the opportunity to collaborate with an Arts t eacher to start a pilot class in which we combine Arts and Technology (digital fabrication) and design thinking.

WORKSHOPHOLDER
Navn	Karen Wiegmink-Oliehoek
Stilling	Art teacher, coach for gifted children
Arbejdsplads	Theresialyceum, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Beskrivelse	In 2002 I graduated in drawing and painting at the art academy. Since then I have been working at the Theresialyceum in Tilburg, where I give art lessons. In addition to arts education, in recent years, I specialized in education for gifted children. In the art department of Theresialyceum, creativity and divergent ideas have become more and more important over the years as the result of a PHD study by dr. M.T. v.d. Kamp. My passion for Art, creative thinking and technology came together when I was able to contribute, with passionate teachers from all around Europe, to the FABLAB SCHOOLS EU project. The result of the project was a restart at my school. Art, technology and design thinking come together in a new subject that I am currently developing which is co-funded by the municipality of Tilburg: Art & Technology.