The Lecture Tour

The Baobab tree we bought at the Tree-Nation plantation in Niger has been watered well by gardeners like Tinpeeba and is now three years ol...

At the end of a long day the part-time students showed the concepts on their lined up lap-tops. After dusk we had a farewell ceremony. Out o...

We figured that the RDM terrain was the designated location. The Rotterdamse Droogdok Maatschappij is a former shipyard where ocean steamers...

After a break of twenty-four months we decided to try something new. We developed an assignment on reallocation of industrial heritage by ma...

May the new year bring you new insights, prosperity and memorable moments. We look forward to many more great Lecture Tour destinations and ...

Our flight back home was canceled so we had to spend an extra Arabian night in hotel La Cigale. It had just opened its doors.

Surprisingly there was no desert sand near the school so we had to bring it in. Twelve light circles were created on a soccer field closeby.

Qatar is the most striking country for our climate change assignment because it has the highest CO2 exhaust per capita in the world. At the ...

Male and female students are strictly separated in Qatar so it was the first time we were teaching woman only.

Our workshop took place in Education City, an area with several faculties. Our host, the VCU School of the Arts Qatar offered spacious room...

On the first day of our arrival at Doha, capital of desert state Qatar it rained. The day after we drove around town looking for something t...

We wish a dynamic & energetic 2008 for those who have supported last year's Lecture Tour and to all the students that attended the w...

Tokyo’s strict fire legislations made us move the farewell ceremony indoors. When the lights where turned off we all watched the two light c...

We lectured this enthusiastic group of twenty two students from Tokyo Zokei University . Coming from different faculties like interior archi...

Combinations of pavement and high end finishing degree show the Japanse tradition of refinement in contemporary design.

The next day we got to the streets of Tokyo in search for typical details. Our host Fumi Masuda is taking the lead with Mie Suzuki and Gerri...

Upon arrival in Tokyo we were welcomed at Iriya Plus, a postwar house with a wonderful traditional tatami interior. Our sleeping quarters we...

At Gwangalli beach we made light circles that merged nicely with the surrounding city lights. Bypassers stood still at the promenade to enjo...

Together with tutors from the university and the students we selected best project out of nine presentations. The winning team passionately ...

With students from South Korea, China and even Russia communication took place in different languages. Translation devices proofed to be ver...

Is it because of workmen in a hurry that these footsteps were created or because of pedestrians that wanted to leave a personal mark?

We have visited the Sasang and Nampodong neighbourhoods to find subjects for our Typical Busan presentation. Some people at the fish market ...

Busan’s city lights shimmer on the first night of our arrival. Our room was situated on one of the upper floors in the Millenium building of...

We ended the workshop with a small ceremony on Stroomi beach. While we were making the light circles it started to rain. Surprisingly this d...

The students worked in classrooms with medieval walls. Again research on the subject turned out to be important for the creative process. Se...

We have changed last years assignment about two young animals and their temporary habitat into one about the urgent matter of climate change...

The variety of this subject was so exuberant that it became difficult to make a selection afterwards. It is touching to see that these pipes...

The streets of Tallinn turned out to be tremendously fruitful for the Typical photoshoot. Easily we discovered several items to hunt down. L...

These are the stairs to our room in Tallinn. During our stay in the city we enjoyed Toivo Raidmets warm hospitality in his house. Toivo is H...

A new series of Lecture Tour workshops will start on August 26th in the city of Tallinn. There we will visit the Eesti Kunstiakadeemia, depa...

We have bought ourselves a Baobab tree. It will be planted soon near the town of Agadez in Niger. In the coming years this tree will grow f...

We are happy to announce that The Lecture Tour will visit Dongseo University in Busan at the beginning of this years autumn. This institute...

This week we have been hosts for a delegation of tutors and students from the Eesti Kunstiakadeemia in Tallinn, department of interior archi...

Happy New Year to all the people that supported the Lecture Tour 2006 and to all the 400 students from three different continents that atten...

We handed out the price for best project two hours later than scheduled. Because time was limited we came up with an alternative for the lig...

Although most of the students had already encountered an orang utan still many questions remained. Especially the social behaviour of infant...

Our workshop took place on the last day of the international APSDA 2006 congress. About two hundred students from Malaysia, Korea, the Phili...

We discovered that the tropical climate of Kuala Lumpur has several side effects on its buildings. The subject we liked most were walls that...

Walking around the neighbourhood we found a large variety of subjects for our Typical KL presentation. Sometimes we had to explain why we we...

These are the windows of our room at the easy going Number Eight guesthouse in the lively Tengkat Tong Shin street in Kuala Lumpur.

Here we go again. We are on our way to our fourth destination this year! The organization of the APSDA 2006 Congress has invited us to give ...

Nearly one hundred students of the Tam Kang University took part in the workshop. We formed a jury together with the professors after which ...

Getting closer to the deadline modern and old presentation techniques were used to visualize the ideas of the students.

This time we focused our workshop on a mythical creature, the Chinese dragon. The students had to come up with an appealing concept to trans...

Although Taiwan is an example of a mono cultural society we were lucky to encounter some uncommon characters in the streets of Taipei.

We held a farewell ceremony on a piece of barren land near the school. We prepared the candles for fourteen light circles that would shine i...

One of the models made by the students in the afternoon. This one had been made of cardboard, paper and vacuum formed plastic.

Gerrit and a student at work at the academy for Art and Design St. Joost in Breda, the Netherlands. The students had to design a temporary l...

Even in a tidy country like Holland things get worned out. We found these street markings during our cycling tour through the city center of...

Due to circumstances our Lecture Tour to Singapore has been canceled but happy news reached us from Taiwan today. The Tamkang University has...