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October 2026

The art school as an ecosystem

The exchange between artistic research and education. A survey of the eight Flemish Schools of Arts

Assia Bert

This article stems from the project Landscape Sketch: Artistic Research in Flanders, a collaborative initiative between the eight Flemish Schools of Arts. It examines the relationship between …

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The art school as an ecosystem

Nurturing musician-educators’ reflective practice through a Blended Intensive Programme on practitioner research

Mathias Moors, Adri de Vugt, Thomas De Baets

This article presents a case illustrating how the nexus between research and education takes shape within a music education curriculum: the Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) on practitioner research …

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The art school as an ecosystem

Thinkering as method. Two educational laboratories at the nexus of research and artistic practice at Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel

Jeroen Billiet

This article presents two student-centred educational laboratories at Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel: the 19th-Century Salon (2022) and the Synthetists Brass Ensemble Project (2023). Rooted in …

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The art school as an ecosystem

Embodied Theory

Anne-Lise Brevers

This text explores how theory and practice can be integrated within practice-based dance research through the course Embodied Theory at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp. The course seeks to challenge …

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The art school as an ecosystem

Conceptual, performative, personal: A curriculum

Yuki Okumura

This article explains how the author translated his ‘conceptual-performative’ method into a cross-disciplinary curriculum through a research project not merely related to, but conducted as, teaching. …

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The art school as an ecosystem

Disobedience, confrontation, contamination and rebellious cinema. How can we teach within an educational structure shaped by entrenched power relations?

Rosine Mbakam

The text explores personal and collective deconstruction through documentary cinema. Rosine Mbakam describes how disobedience, confrontation and ‘“contamination’” have shaped her practice as a …

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The art school as an ecosystem

The Winter School as a research laboratory. A pedagogical interruption in the curriculum

Ellen Gillard, Jori Galama

This article examines the Winter School as an intensive environment for artistic research and practice, where students experiment with methods and develop their position as artist-researchers under …

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The art school as an ecosystem

AI in Motion. Embodied practices meet craft AI

Frederik De Bleser, Cèlia Tort Pujol, Myrthe Bokelmann, Lieven Menschaert

Art education faces enormous pressure to adopt large-scale AI tools into the curriculum, while students increasingly express anxiety about these same technologies displacing the professional …

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The art school as an ecosystem

Co-learning: Conversational, situated, and more-than-human pedagogies at Master’s level

Guus Vandeweerd, Anneleen Swillen

The Master’s seminar “S (or: exploring more-than-human entanglements in a post-digital culture)” at PXL-MAD grew from our research into more-than-human, co-creative practices, post-digital worlds, …

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Research methods in the arts

Mapping the Local. A collaborative pedagogical paradigm

Özgür Ilter, Allan Siegel

Urban space offers fertile ground for pedagogical experimentation, where artistic practices and collective enquiry converge. In this article, we present Mapping the Local, a project-based seminar at …

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From the mountain I see the mountain. Shifting landscape perception through filmmaking, encounters, and indigenous archives

Julián García Long

This article examines how artistic research can transform one’s “Sense of Place”. Reflecting on the process of making a film in a burnt native forest in northern Patagonia, I explore how a …

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Collective Signal: A swan song for the air raid siren

Angela de Weijer, Karin Bijsterveld

Collective Signal by Angela de Weijer is a composition originally conceived as a requiem for the air raid sirens in the Netherlands. In 2018, the artist created a proof of concept of the artwork in …

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