Academy Open Days 2012

Textile design / Communication design / Fashion design / Product design

It’s that time of year again when academies around the Netherlands open their doors to budding young creatives. Design.nl offers you an overview of the most important open days.

By Cassandra Pizzey /asdf 11-01-2012

Here you will find an overview of the open days offered by the Dutch design/fashion/art academies in chronological order.

AMFI  
Date:
21 January 2012 Time:
10:00 till 15:00
Location:
AMFI-Amsterdam Fashion Institute
Mauritskade 11
1091 GC Amsterdam
The Netherlands 

If you are considering studying at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, then we advise you to visit one of our open days. There will be lots to see and a range of activities to take part in! During the open days, teachers and students will tell you all about the programme you’re interested in.

  WDKA
Date:
21 January 2012
Time:
10:00 till 15:00
Location:
Willem de Kooning Academy 
Blaak 10 and Wijnhaven 61
Rotterdam

Dreaming of a career as an artist, designer or teacher? Come to Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam University's Open Day on Saturday January 21.  This is your chance to find out if a course in Media, Art, Design, Leisure or Education is something you fancy. You're welcome at our buildings Blaak 10 and Wijnhaven 61 from 10 until 15hrs. All our bachelor courses full-time and part-time will be present:
In addition information about our master courses, taught at the Piet Zwart Institute, will be available during the Open Day.
More information on all our Open Days and Evenings is available here. 

Gerrit Rietveld Academie
 Date:
27 January 2012
Time:
10:00 till 20:00
Location:
Gerrit Rietveld Academy
 Frederik Roeskestraat 96
Amsterdam  

During the Open Day all departments present themselves by means of small exhibitions and other presentations. Teachers and students answer all sorts of questions about the education. The Open Day is good way of finding out what a study at the Rietveld Academie is about. 

KABK  
Date:  
28 January, 2012 
Time:  
10:00 till 16:00
Location:  
Royal Academy of Art
Prinsessegracht 4
2514 AN
Den Haag  

All studies present themselves during the 'open day' of the Royal Academy of Art. The doors at the Prinsessegracht 4 in The Hague will be wide open at Saturday 28th of January 2012 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
 Participating studies:
Bachelors : ArtScience | Fine Arts | Photography  | Graphic Design | Interactive/Media/Design  | Interior architecture and Furniture design  | Textile and Fashion  
Masters:  ArtScience | Artistic Research | Film & Photographic Studies | Interior Architecture | Media Technology | Type and Media
  PhD : Arts   Post Graduate |  Post Graduate Course Industrial Design  
Preparatory courses : Among others School for Young Talent

Grafish Lyceum Rotterdam
  Date:
28 January 2012 
Time:
09:30 till 16:00
Location: 
Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam
Heer Bokelweg 255
3032 AD Rotterdam

Come and take a look at our ‘creative world’!  Would you like to see for yourself what goes on at the Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam? Taste the atmosphere, see student work and take a tour of the workshops, many design classrooms, advanced light, sound and recording studios and in-house publisher’s the school has to offer. You can do all this during the open day, held once a year on the last Saturday of January.

During the open day you can take a look around the school, attend information meetings and collect all the information you need to make an informed choice for the right course.  

ABK Maastricht
Date:
17 March 2012
Time:
10:00 till 15:00
Location:
Academy of Fine Arts Maastricht 
Herdenkingsplein 12
6211 PW
Maastricht 

ArtEZ Zwolle 
Date:
22 March 2012 
Time:
10:00 till 16:00
Location:
 ArtEZ
Rhijnvis Feithlaan 50
Zwolle 

Open day Art & Design, Theatre, Education in Art and Interior in Zwolle 22 March 2012

On 22 March 2012, the ArtEZ-location in Zwolle (Rhijnvis Feithlaan 50) will be holding an open day. Here, information will be available about the Theatre Courses, the Theatre in Education Course, the Bachelor’s Interior Design and Associate Degree in Interior Design Courses, and the Fine Art, Stories & Design and Fine Art and Design in Education Courses. Also present will be the Expertise Centre for Arts Education with, for instance, its Master of Education in Arts Course.

HKU
Date: 
31 March 2012 
Time: 
10:00 till 16:00 
Location: 
Utrecht  School of the Arts
Ina Boudier-Bakkerlaan 50
 3582 VA
 Utrecht

Open house, you're invited!

Visit Utrecht School of the Arts on March 31, 2012. On this day you can learn more about our programmes, faculties, meet teachers and students and see behind the scenes of Utrecht School of the Arts. We open all the doors and facilities on five locations.
 Faculty of Visual Arts and Design
The Faculty of Visual Arts and Design is the place to be for talented visual arts and design students. At this faculty, you will build a strong foundation for a career as an autonomous artist, designer, teacher of visual arts and design or design manager.

  ArtEZ Enschede  
Date: 
13 April 2012
 Time: 
10:00 till 16:00
 Location:
 ArtEZ Enschede 
Hallenweg 5
 Enschede

ArtEZ Academy of Art & Design in Enschede will be holding an open day. Here, information will be available about the Bachelor's Fine Art and the Art & Crossmedia Design Course

 ArtEZ Arnhem  
Date: 
18 April 2012
 Time:
11:00 till 15:00
 Location:
ArtEZ Arnhem 
Kortestraat 27 
Arnhem

  Open day Fashion Masters

Information sessions will be held for the master Fashion Design and the master Fashion Strategy. Student work will be on show, and lecturers and students will naturally be present to answer your questions.