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Image: presenting the outcomes of Winter School 2018
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- Returning institutions include KISD (Cologne), Audencia (Nantes), and KADK, (Copenhagen)
- This year’s two-week event will look at how human beings relate to and interact with their surroundings
Tokyo Metropolitan University is the latest international institution to take in part in The Glasgow School of Art’s Winter School it was announced today, Monday 14 January, as the 2019 event got underway. Students and staff from the leading Japanese university have arrived in Altyre where the annual event takes place.
Winter School brings together academics and students from the GSA and institutions across the globe to address issues of importance in contemporary society. Returning institutions this year include KISD (Cologne), Audencia (Nantes) and KADK, (Copenhagen). Additionally, faculty members from the University of Sydney, SIT Singapore, University of Porto and University of Averio, and academics from Malaysia and Indonesia will attend.
This is the fourth Winter School. It will look at how human beings relate to and interact with their surroundings.
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| The GSA’s Highlands and Islands campus at Altyre |
“This year’s Winter School will explore how designers can engage with landscape,” says Dr Gordon Hush, Head of Innovation School at the GSA.“They will explore a variety of sites around the Altyre estate seeking opportunities to design with nature, rather than using nature, and uncover ways to allow a relationship with nature that promotes human well-being.”
“We are delighted to welcome staff and students from Tokyo Metropolitan university to Winter School for the first time, and to welcome back our friends and colleagues from KISD (Cologne) Audencia (Nantes), KADK, (Copenhagen).”
“Winter School offers the opportunity to collaborate with students and academic colleagues from across the world using the local situation in the north of Scotland as the spring board to address issues of global importance.”
The outputs of the 2019 Winter School design projects will be gathered for exhibition to be shown in Forres later in the year.
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