practice led PHD

research project ARIA/Sint lucas antwerp 2019–2023

a practice-led doctoral study at Sint Lucas School of Arts and University Antwerp

The PhD research project “Disarming Design” questions how design can be a vehicle for empowerment and solidarity in conflicted realities. How can one, through the practice of design, develop sustainable positions in fractured societies? Building upon relations of trust and long-term involvements in Palestine, Annelys de Vet will analyze, define and design the conditions for design to have a social, political and emancipatory impact. A concrete goal is to develop, in close collaboration with local partners, new forms and platforms for design education, collaboration and exchange, reinforcing the economic, political and artistic sustainability of designers.