Euregional schools tour with Luigi Ferrara

As Luigi Ferrara, director of the Institute without Boundaries, puts it: “Our aim is to produce graduates who, in the words of Buckminster Fuller, are ‘a synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist, and evolutionary strategist.’ To do so, we need to eliminate boundaries between design and other professions, and between designers and the local and global constituents they serve. This is directly reflected in the name of our institution.” Together with REcentre, Luigi Ferrara did a Euregional tour to visit the schools and heads of department to discuss a possible cooperation for the sustainable summer school.
 
Ferrara is already looking forward to the collaboration with the Euregion: “Our regions share a similar industrial history as well as a number of complex problems: the heavy industries that are gradually disappearing and demanding a new economic direction, the ageing of the population and constantly widening generation gap, the ‘brain drain’ of young talent. Moreover, just like in the Euregion, we also have different languages and many different cultures all living in close proximity to one another. This means that the people are used to crossing boundaries, so to speak. In your cases it’s exactly the same. And this mentality is the perfect breeding ground for what we want to do. It’s our experience that creativity always flourishes in these sorts of circumstances.”

REcentre talked to many euregional schools : (HEC-ULg, Universiteit Maastricht, Hogeschool Zuyd, Jan Van Eyck Academy, ABKM ; Saint-Luc Liège, Media & Design Academy, Provinciale Hogeschool Limburg, KHLim, La Cambre, ULg) that have all applauded the initiative.