Requirements
You have to be an architect, designer or artist (visual arts, product designers, interior architects, etc) in order to be able to participate in the RTS, preferably with interesting (design) practice.

Fee
The fee covers participation in four sessions (2,5 days each), one introductory dinner per session, tea-coffee, lunches during sessions, as well as the publication of the research project in the Reflections-series. It does not cover travel costs, nor accommodation.
The fee for the academic year 2010 - 2011 is 1150 euro.

Application
You can apply to attend the RTS program by completing the FORM on http://rts.bydesigning.info.
Registration deadline is the 1st of September. Application approval: 1st of October.
The program starts in November. Dates of all the workshops will be announced on the website.

Research By Designing Program

For Architects, Artists And Designers
The ambition of Sint-Lucas and the RTS program is to actively take part in creating a new, relevant foundation for research in architecture and design, by developing research by designing. Now, we are glad to offer the Research Training Sessions (RTS) program to all interested researchers and professionals in the fields of design: academics, architects, visual artists and designers. RTS is a 2-year scheme constructed to help designers and artists develop research, which will be based on their own creative practice.

Call For Participation
RTS is a unique proposition in the context of the current design research postgraduate courses which exist in Europe. It focuses on defining and developing knowledge which emerges from exploration of the space between art and science, practice and theory, the exploratory and the explanatory.

Tutors
The RTS tutors: an international group of experts in the fields of design research, cybernetics, knowledge processes and communication (from Belgium, the Netherlands, Turkey, UK, Germany, Australia, Poland, USA, Sweden and Norway).
The tutors’ profiles are available on the RTS website:
http://rts.bydesigning.info.

Concept Of The Program
The first year is built around four general topics:
WHY/HOW DESIGN RESEARCH? / KNOWLEDGE / REFLECTION / ARTEFACT

The second year develops the issues introduced in the first year and deepens the understanding, e.g.:
HOW DESIGN RESEARCH? / ACTION AND OBSERVATION / BY DESIGN FOR DESIGN / RESEARCH PRACTICE

During the sessions, the fundamental issues of research by design are discussed in a way in which each of the participants can think and develop his/her own research ideas and research questions. All this may eventually lead to the formal formulation of a PhD project. The program can also be followed as research training in the context of a PhD program. Additionally to the sessions, the possibility to individually discuss projects and concepts is available in a form of tutorials, focused workshops or individual consultations. A specific digital communication platform has been developed.

The program concludes with a research project prepared by each participant, under the supervision of one of the RTS tutors. This project will consist of a written part and a design work. All works will be presented and discussed during the special and final session.

Contact
For questions or additional information, please contact : ellen.goeleven@architectuur.sintlucas.wenk.be

Location
Paleizenstraat 65-67, BE-1030 Brussels / Tel. +32 2 242 00 00
Hoogstraat 51, BE-9000 Ghent / Tel. +32 9 225 10 00