AIAS
Ar.Co has been slow to develop links with international school associations and networks and did so according to common interests and opportunities. The case of AIAS/International Association of Independent Art and Design Schools was an exception seeing that the ambitious project aimed to react against the general tendency to transform multiple educational philosophies into one tepid, uniform field. What was asked of member-schools is that they interact and reflect together on the many challenges facing art education. The association was officially founded in a meeting of directors of 12 schools from 8 countries, on 30th November 1990 in the Bauhaus, Dessau. The founding members are: the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam (Simon den Hartog) and the Schule für Gestaltung in Basel (Daniel Reist) - main promoters of the project -, Ar.Co-Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual in Lisbon, the Staatliche Akademie der Bildende Künste in Stuttgart, the Bauhaus in Dessau, the Fachschule für Angewandte Kunst in Heiligendam, the UIAH-University of Industrial Arts in Helsinky, the ESAG-École Supérieure d’Arts Graphiques et d’Architecture Intérieure in Paris, the AKI-Instituut voor Hoger Beeldend Kunstonderwijs in Enschede, the Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko in Tokyo, the Royal College of Art in London and the Schule für Gestaltung in Zurich. In 1992 Ar.Co hosted the AIAS General Assembly meeting while simultaneously promoting special workshops for advanced students and teachers. In 1994 the Prix d’Honneur AIAS was created for both the Art and Design categories. The Art Prize of that year went to Ana Yokochi, student at Ar.Co.
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Manuel Costa Cabral and Simon den Hartog. Visiting the Convento de Cristo, Tomar, during AIAS Lisbon General Assembly, 1992.
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AIAS Workshops at Ar.Co on the occasion of the 1992 General Assembly. Photography.
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AIAS Workshops at Ar.Co on the occasion of the 1992 General Assembly. Sculpture.
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AIAS Workshops at Ar.Co on the occasion of the 1992 General Assembly. Graphic Design.
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AIAS Workshops at Ar.Co on the occasion of the 1992 General Assembly. Drawing.
