WINTER SCHOOL 10th edition 2025
RADICAL STEWARDSHIP. DESIGNING THE LANDSCAPE OF CARE.
13th-17thJanuary (online workshop) / 5th-13th April (Glasgow and Highlands Campus)
WinterSchool is a two-part international and cross-cultural experience aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students from around the world. Organized by GSA School of Innovation & Technology, each year guest Schools from Europe and Asia are invited to participate. The event brings together students and professors of design, engineering, computer science and social sciences, giving them the opportunity to work together, exploring a contemporary challenge, through an online engagement week and an intensive and site-specific experience at GSA’sHighlands campus at Altyre Estate, Forres, Scotland.
The 10th edition of Winter School aimed to give voice to, and serve, the landscape, to explore the emerging forms of environmental care and stewardship, to rethink and reframe the rights and responsibilities related to human interactions with the environment, and to suggest new ways to plan, iterate, and promote meaningful transformations. This positioning merged the site of physical experience with the hyper connected essence of our daily life. The workshop involved a direct engagement with the place and its actors - in connection with seven local stakeholders ranging from technology to food, form energy to nature restoration, human and more-than-human - in which students developed design artifacts, systems, and experiences which questioned, reflected, and opened potential threads tore-imagine how we might live.
SCHOOLS:
The Glasgow School of Art School of Innovation and Technology, Scotland.
Köln International School of Design (KISD), Germany.
The University of Central Asia, Naryn Campus, Kyrgyzstan.
The Academy of Fine Arts and Design (AFAD), Bratislava.
Elisava Barcelona School of Design and Engineering, Barcelona.
Tsinghua University, Beijing.
Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (GAFA), Guangzhou.
Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts (LAFA), Shenyang.