GSA Highlands & Islands campus hosted Winter School 2026 from 13th to 17th April. The one-week workshop, which evolved on the discussions and proposals developed during January on-line week, was focused on human relationships with their specific environments. With the campus as a hyper-local context for exploration and an awareness of the global impact of digital technologies and networks, WS brought together 80 international students and 25 academics and experts from around the world. In its 11th edition, WS kept on opening reflections and promoting actions on the key role that creative practices, the material world, and digital technologies play in the transformation of the environment in terms of scale, time, and impact. During the workshop, students explored ways to map, visualise, perform or activate gatherings of human and non-human entities, data, landscapes, legacies and visions. Working in collaboration with local stakeholders, the WS encourages an increasingly meaningful and responsible sense of identity, community, care and purpose for people and the planet.
Winter School is a two-part international and cross-cultural experience aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students, that brings together students and professors of design, engineering, computer science and social sciences. As in previous years, Research symposia organized during the week by GSA School of Innovation and Technology and the Rural Lab, enhanced the links between learning & teaching, research and impact, positioning Winter School and The Glasgow School of Art H&I campus as key agents aiming to shift the metropolitan.
SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES:
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) in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Elisava Barcelona School of Design and Engineering, Catalonia.
Tsinghua University, China.
Central Academy of Fine Arts, China.
Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, China.
