A HINGE MOMENT BETWEEN PAST AND FUTURE Since joining the school three months ago, I’ve been hearing much about the genesis of the Master Institute and the move to this wonderful location in Den Bosch early this academic year where all four programmes of study, Visual Arts, Graphic Design, Photography and Animation have been brought together as one community of creatives in a 24/7 learning environment. The Master Institute has the potential to become a model of arts excellence, where the combining of art & design thinking, theory and knowledge production through interdisciplinary art and design practices provides graduate students an enhanced view of their own practices across a wide range of fields. The interdisciplinary programme widens the debate on where we can take arts research and establishes further the impetus for developing an arts research culture to generate new ways of thinking and creative practice. I look forward with much enthusiasm to next year, in toe with the students in this booklet as they develop further their independent research projects, and hope that we together can actualise the idea of what is common to us as students and tutors alike.
Úna Henry 22nd June, 2018 Head of Master Institute AKV/st.joost, ‘s-Hertogenbosch