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A Practice in Relation to Society. How can we use our practice to contribute to society?

It is from this critical question that the Autonomous Design programme takes on its own trajectory.

05/10/2026

Obu, My Companion is an invitation to meet a companion. Obu is a blue cow born from Camille Toulouse’s personal exploration of social anxiety, vulnerability, and the longing to belong. What began as a search for a graduation project slowly became a story about companionship, not to solve difficult emotions, but to quietly sit beside them.

In this installation, Obu waits to be encountered. Visitors are invited to pick Obu up, carry them through the exhibition, or simply spend a moment together. The work explores how small gestures of care, play and presence can create unexpected moments of connection.

Obu, My Companion is exhibited as part of Design Fest Gent (03-11.10.2026) at Bar Edward, Speldenstraat 1, 9000 Ghent, on the first floor. Work by Camille, Camille, alumni master Autonomous Design '26.

01/10/2026

Exciting work of Autonomous Design alumni Maxence Duterne, in collaboration with marie verdeil and OpenLab for the opening of Design Museum Gent!

(S)low Refresh Rate starts with a simple question: what if you had to generate the energy needed for printing yourself? In this installation, electricity isn’t supplied via an invisible grid, but is generated by visitors. A bicycle generator, developed by LOW←TECH MAGAZINE , powers a custom-built dot-matrix printer, assembled from discarded electronic components by Duterne and Verdeil. Images appear line by line, driven by the energy available at that moment.

The work reveals how much labor and energy are required to produce an image. The prints are collected on site and hung to form a growing collection of paper sheets, which slowly accumulates in time with the rhythm of the collective effort. The installation uses low-tech principles and reused materials to lay technology bare.

16/09/2026

Kick-off with the students of the premaster and master Autonomous Design KASK & Conservatorium! Introductions/presentations/guided tours/good food/happy faces :⁠-⁠) Welcome and let's start!

26/06/2026

Come visit the graduation project of our Autonomous Design master students at the Graduation Expo till Sunday at Campus Bijloke. Here some promising snippets of their projects! Congratulations to all students!

OPENING HOURS⁠
— 25.06.26, 15:00 – 22:00⁠
— 26.06.26, 12:00 - 20:00⁠
— 27.06.26, 10:00 - 21:00⁠
— 28.06.26, 12:00 - 20:00⁠

.ghn .no .shahi Zoa Van Engelen, Giorgi Kavtaradze

25/06/2026

Meet Autonomous Master Annelies Clerix (, )
Crafts of Horizontality

When starting a collective, an artist-run, we wish to take a distance from capitalist, fast-paced, hierarchical institutions. We aim to structure ourselves horizontally. But what does horizontality mean? Is it a flat line? Many collectives claim they work non-hierarchically yet in practice horizontality appears a difficult practice.

This research-project figures as an attempt to work without hierarchy. A series of performative interviews were conducted with different Brussels-based collectives – Canapé, Faire-Part, One Field Fallow, The Post Collective, School of Love and DomestiCity. Starting from the question, “What are caring elements and practices that makes your collective horizontal?”, whole conversations unfolded about doubts, good practices and a lot of motivation to create non-hierarchical collectives. Our conversations figure as the building blocks for a publication and a conversation game.

24/06/2026

Meet Autonomous Master Frida Bueno (.no)
Where is home?

Can public space feel like home?

Through shared drawings, conversations, stories, music, games, and time spent together in public space, Prohibido Olvidarme explores questions of care, belonging, and what makes us feel at home. The project reflects on the importance of gathering without expectations, where people are free to participate, contribute, or simply be, and how a feeling of home can emerge through acceptance, respect, and collective presence.

24/06/2026

Meet Autonomous Master Vera Goldhoorn (.ghn)

In my work, I explore the relationship between place, memory and identity. I am fascinated by how public spaces carry meaning and how that meaning changes depending on who is moving through the space. For me, places function as an archive: they preserve personal memories, historical layers and collective experiences. A street or a building can evoke a moment from the past, whilst at the same time being influenced by the present.

Through walking, I build up a personal archive of these experiences. I do not walk with a fixed destination in mind, but allow myself to be guided by attraction, curiosity and chance encounters. During these walks, I collect impressions through drawings, photographs, video, text, sound, collages and cartography. Using these tools, I attempt to capture places beyond their usual or digital representations.

Drawing on this personal archive, I also organise participatory walks with groups. During these collective moments, I invite participants to experience a place together without a fixed route or time constraints. We explore how we orient ourselves, what feelings or memories places evoke, and how different perspectives can together form a new collective map of an environment.

I am compiling this ongoing process into a publication that brings together the insights I have gained and the material that emerged from the walks.

“Wanneer je jezelf aan de plekken geeft, geven zij jezelf terug.” – Rebecca Solnit

24/06/2026

Meet Autonomous Master Patrice Scott

e x h i BB e a c h is dedicated to the common ~ via understanding relational design as a vessel which adapts to meteorologically elemental swings while reminding the living of our rebellious joy via shared scenarios, willful vulnerability, and sn*******ng curiosity born of stumbling upon new or unknown experiential situations doubling as conceptual terrains. Together and/or in solitude, sentient beings can then strengthen their capacity for appreciating, not rushing through, and decentering productivity in life. Dome-situated activities (intended to encourage our pursuit of personally-determined, collectively-supported worthiness which never denies external conditions of reality) make an architecturally disruptive function 🪩 for any to enter as they wish and partake.

23/06/2026

Meet Autonomous Master Mona Abdollahshahi .shahi

Who Who helps a story survive?
Those in power? The storytellers? Or the listeners who carry it forward?

The Story Behind the Curtain explores the stories that never become the dominant narrative—the stories that remain hidden behind the curtain.

In this interactive installation, four magic lanterns suspended from the ceiling project the main characters of The Trial of Siavash by Fire, a story that has travelled through centuries. Visitors are invited to carry the lanterns and rearrange them in space, changing the scale and visibility of each character. Here, visibility becomes power: the larger a figure appears, the more influence it gains within the story.

As participants hold the lanterns, they feel their weight and warmth, physically experiencing their own role in shaping the narrative. Sensors detect each new arrangement and activate an alternative version of the story—one in which familiar roles, accepted truths, and established power relations begin to shift.

Perhaps stories do not endure because they are true.
Perhaps they endure because they are repeated, remembered, and carried by those who choose to tell them.

23/06/2026

Meet Autonomous Master Camille Van de Catsye
Project: OBU MY COMPANION

I’m a poet, a world-builder, a midnight writer.
I find my way through stories, creatures, and imagined worlds in search of a language for the things we do not easily say.
My work circles around social anxiety, vulnerability, and the longing to belong.
Somewhere between a river of tears, unfinished sketches, and countless nights of searching, I found a blue companion named Obu.

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Louis Pasteurlaan 2
Ghent
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