STRUKTUR WS26

Winter 2026–27 | 26-10-19 to 27-02-05

Lecturer: Kim Albrecht

There are four information design courses this winter. They do not run one after another but alongside each other, and you put your own semester together from them.

The core is the Open Studio: the space where your projects take shape. It runs on three mornings. Each of the three afternoons carries a different format: Workshops on Tuesday, Intro to Information Design on Thursday, the Reading Club on Friday.

The week

Mornings 10am–1pm, afternoons 2–5pm, always in Room 3.07. Wednesday stays free.

How to combine the courses

Each teaching week offers six blocks: the Open Studio on three mornings and the three afternoon formats. Every block counts on its own.

Tuesday Thursday Friday
10am–1pm Open Studio Open Studio Open Studio
2–5pm Workshops Intro to Information Design Reading Club

9 CP — two blocks

One Open Studio plus one further block of your choice.

18 CP — four blocks

Four blocks, freely combined. Three Open Studios plus the Reading Club is possible, as is two Open Studios plus Workshops and Reading Club, or any other arrangement.

The blocks do not have to fall on the same day — you can come to the studio in the morning and leave in the afternoon, or the other way round.

The Open Studio is part of every combination, because that is where your project lives. What you submit and how it is assessed is described on the Open Studio page.

One more thing: this choice determines what you receive credits for, not where you are allowed to be. I do not keep an attendance list, and you are welcome in every format, including those you are not enrolled in.

The rhythm

All courses run every other week. This is a deliberate decision: rather than seeing each other briefly every week, we see each other less often but for whole days. That leaves real time between sessions to work on your projects instead of jumping from meeting to meeting.

In the weeks in between I offer online office hours that you can book individually.

Dates

Week Date
43 20–23 Oct 2026 Introduction week
44 27–30 Oct 2026 Teaching week
45 5 Nov 2026 Online office hours
46 10–13 Nov 2026 Teaching week — Presentation 01
48 24–27 Nov 2026 Teaching week
49 3 Dec 2026 Online office hours
50 8–11 Dec 2026 Teaching week — Presentation 02
51 17 Dec 2026 Online office hours
52–2 Break
3 19–22 Jan 2027 Teaching week
5 2–5 Feb 2027 Examination week — Presentation 03

The four courses

Open Studio
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, 10am–1pm
Project work, consultations and the three presentation rounds. Every session opens with Information Design in the Wild.

Information Design Workshops
Tuesday, 2–5pm
Five workshops on topics we choose together in the first session.

Intro to Information Design
Thursday, 2–5pm
One hour of lecture, then two hours working on a task together, with results presented at the end.

Reading Club
Friday, 2–5pm
Five texts, five sessions. We read and discuss them together.