IDW 2026 – International Design Workshop Week

About

The International Design Workshop Week (IDW 2026) brings together an interdisciplinary group of master's students in (Interior) Architecture, Product Development, Urbanism & Spatial Planning, Heritage Studies, and Visual Arts for an intensive one-week design journey. Guided by an international duo of tutors, participants explore the theme BE+LONGING, rethinking how design can address questions of identity, community, care, and connection in a rapidly changing world. Through collaboration, critical reflection, and creative experimentation, students are invited to design spaces, futures, and imaginaries where everyone can belong.

Ready for a week full of radical pedagogical experiences, international encounters and interdisciplinary exchange?

Course leader

Nele Simons, idw@uantwerpen.be

Target group

Master's students Design Sciences (architecture, interior architecture, product design, urban planning, heritage studies) and Art.

Course aim

IDW 2026 encourages designers to see longing not as a lack, but as a generative force. To treat belonging not as a static state, but as an ongoing process - a becoming. Let’s design spaces, futures, and imaginaries where everyone can belong.

Fee info

The tuition fee includes participation in the workshop week. It does not include travel, accommodation or meals.