Practor Technology & Creativity wanted!
The professorship “Technology as Partner of Creative Makers” conducts practice-oriented research into the design process in which technology has an increasingly prominent role and can (partly) take over the creative design process. We ask ourselves how we, as a creative professional school, can best respond to this in our education and in relation to professional practice and society. The department experiments and designs solutions in collaboration with stakeholders and partners.
In the department, we zoom in on both developments in the field of technology and their significance for the skills and professional identity of creative designers and makers and the education we offer them as a creative vocational school. We also focus on the interplay between technology and creativity.
- Starting from 1 May 2025: 0.5 – 0.6 FTE
- Location Eindhoven and Boxtel
and understanding
From 2020 to 2024, the first practorate was 'Meaningful Creativity' at SintLucas. This professorship focused on giving sustainable meaning to meaningful creativity and is closely linked to the outside world.
The practorate at SintLucas focuses on giving lasting meaning to meaningful creativity and is closely connected to the outside world. What is considered meaningful in the world around us, why and when? What is the importance of design and of the MBO designer? It is necessary that we continuously critically examine and question these questions.
That ideas in themselves are not enough to cope with the numerous social challenges and complex issues facing the world today and tomorrow is a given for SintLucas.At a regional level, North Brabant, the geographical context from which SintLucas operates, faces large-scale tasks. From sustainable energy production, housing construction, mobility and logistics to climate adaptation, biodiversity, circular economy and the transition of agriculture and horticulture.
The role of creative MBO professionals who can both ‘imagine’ and ‘imagine’ is essential to meet the myriad of societal challenges and complex issues.
In order to make the usefulness of this applied creativity visible and comprehensible, SintLucas has a practorate ‘meaningful creativity’, which is set up from both a professional perspective (with a central focus on the role of design) and an educational perspective.
Organisation
Research has a central role in the Practorate and is assigned to the Practor, Catelijne van Middelkoop and Practorate members. The Practor maintains the overview and directs content and organisation. Practorate members carry out the various research projects, in collaboration with various educational partners. More information: Catelijne van Middelkoop, c.van.middelkoop@sintlucas.nl
Practice speech
On 20 October, practor Catelijne van Middelkoop delivered her practoral speech “De Laatste Makers”.De Laatste Makers sketches a picture of a possible future of manufacturing education and resulting knowledge development in the Netherlands and questions the critical role a vocational school like SintLucas can play in this. Want to know more about SintLucas with/as a vocational school on its way to a centre of expertise Meaningful Creativity? Then click on the button below.
Goals
With this professorship, we want to develop and shape transferable knowledge about the meaningful use of applied creativity and design for socially new challenges by means of artefacts for and by students, (research) teachers and external stakeholders. By artefacts, we mean: purposefully developed instruments to realise innovation goals. In addition, we want to validate and critically reflect on these artefacts during various (iterative) design and implementation processes.
Partnerships
Starting point for the 3-year study is a large number of pre-initiated and extrinsically motivated (id est ‘a possible prospect of a sustainable future’) collaborations linked together through an overarching framework of three interrelated research questions.
The insights gained are the ‘ingredients’ with which we gain more insight into what education (at the frontiers) looks like that properly prepares learners for the essential role of creative MBO professional.
The collaborations form the context within which the Practorate’s issues are placed and explored. The issues all fall within the central theme of ‘meaningful creativity’ and are grouped into three related clusters.
- We place the development of design education in the Netherlands in historical and social context.
- We want to better understand which ingredients enhance the essential role of the design professional;
We extract design principles for collaborations in MBO design education that critically build on what already exists.
Land&Hand
Land&Hand is a multi-year project on the interaction between landscape, materials and the craftsmanship that results from it. The project develops collaborations between MBO education, entrepreneurs and landscape organisations. At a physical location, students enter into a relationship with the landscape and the related manufacturing industry. In North Brabant, together with Ketter&Co, we explored the relationship between landscape and festivals for Theatre Festival De Parade.
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RetroFuture
On 24 September 1966, the Evoluon in Eindhoven opened as a future-oriented place for young and old. The RetroFuture exhibition takes visitors into the experiences of future thinkers, dreamers and artists in a spectacular setting. Student Zion Webb transformed aeroplane seats into a series of unique, imaginative objects. The different roles Zion fulfilled during the project are of great significance for the realisation of the model for sustainable collaboration, which the practorate is working on.
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