Workshops

Within the design academies, Leaky Studio focuses on the designers ability not only to respond to content/information, but also taking an active role in producing content. Workshops can often take on an urbanistic twist whereby students conduct field research outside in the city, through images, texts, videos, impressions, etc, and are challenged to weave those into a coherent “map” of the place. Through these workshops, the students create their own content based on subjective wanderings, and translate those experiences into medium for communicative dissemination.

A second recently developed workshop, examines the modes of producing collaboratively, as a ‘we’. Students are taught about different notions of collaborative practices, in which ‘agonistic’ modes of working together are fostered - that is modes of working wherein the conflicts, debates and constant negotiations between diverse authors are harnessed in their creative potential. Ideally within this workshop, university departments could collaborate, between designers, artists, literature students and/or sociologists/humanities. By combining disciplines designers become habituated to languages of others and learn how to harness that collaboration into a rich research methodology and articulation. Workshop: 4-5 days.

Soft and Hard Sciences

Within the hard and soft sciences, Leaky Studio works on site with students and professionals in developing both screen and print based articulations of their research work. How does their research get communicated, how can the complex web of information and data be clearly and quickly represented through graphic representation? Students/Professionals get acquainted with several visualisation methods and techniques focusing on information cartography. Workshops: Variable (1-2 days)