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Public Programme Up Here Now
The first in a series of public events during the Up Here Now exhibition (MA Design)  - Saturday June 22, 13.00 PROFESSIONALLY SOCIAL, pragmatics and conflicts faced in the bottom up planing / Efficiency and long term "maintenance" of b... Read more

MaHKUplatform, 2013, June 20-30

MA FINE ART

Let' s Get Physical-Interventions In and Through the City

Location: Kapitaal, Plompetorengracht 4, Utrecht.

Opening: Friday, June 21, at 19.00

Let's Get Physical - Intervent... Read more


MaHKUplatform, 2013, June 20-30

MA DESIGN

UP. HERE. NOW. - The Work Shop

Location: Radboudhof 4th floor (Part of Call of the Mall)

Opening: Friday, June 21, at 17.00

We don't think you need another solipsistic product. You already hav... Read more


Publication Offside Effect, Metropolis M Books
Over the last decade, art education has been confronted time and again with neoliberal thought and attitudes. As a result of this, art education has turned slowly but surely into a specific product focused on quantifiable and verifiable end results manife... Read more

Yoonhee Kim ONE AND ... POEMS
07.06 - 09.06.2013 Opening: Friday, 7th of June, 7pm Joao Cocteau, Kienitzerstrasse 98, 12049 Neukölln Berlin Exhibition hours: Saturday and Sunday, 2 - 7pm In her first solo exhibition “One and … Poems” Korean artist and M... Read more

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MaHKU is the one-year Master programme of the Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design (HKU). MaHKU comprises five disciplines, i.e. Editorial Design, Fashion Design, Fine Art, Interior Design, and Public Space Design. The programme offers an MA curriculum both discipline-specific and interdisciplinary entailing a mixture of provocative seminars and workshops.

As a MaHKU student, you will reflect on your specific discipline, participate in interdisciplinary debates, and embark on the development of innovative insights for your own discipline and its professionals. In other words, you will be invited to participate in a topical theoretical discourse.

Artistic research

Kathrin Hero
Books and digitization

The book’s place – a very old debate
Where is the book’s place in today’s hybrid information production? In a time when the book as a medium has repeatedly been declared dead my position as a book lover used to be a defensive one. I sought valuable and preferably measurable arguments that could explain the so called ‘charm’, ‘magic’ and ‘comfort’ of the traditional codex book, as mentioned by many bibliophiles and book collectors.
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Pedro Kok
The Room of Architectural Representation

It may be redundant to say that a certain field of production is at crossroads in contemporary life, particularly those related to artistic output. All fields are subject to ongoing transformations, their relevance and pertinence questioned constantly. I went into the 2010 Venice Biennale with a certain question: with widespread access to architectural imagery, is architect ural photography still relevant today within the exhibition space?
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