Colour Mapping the Living Past
Reimagining a Colour Narrative
Creative Colour Workshop, in collaboration with the Gallo-Roman Museum Tongeren.
Exploring – recording – creating. These activities will take you through a hands-on investigation and exploration of colour awareness, colour measurement and notation, all while mapping the colours of selected works in the exhibition ‘Antiquity in Colour’ at the Gallo-Roman Museum in Tongeren, Belgium’s oldest city.
DATE
Saturday April 27, 2024
10:30h – 16:00h CEST
LOCATION
Gallo-Roman Museum
Kielenstraat 15
3700 Tongeren, Belgium
FOR
creative professionals in general, lovers of history and colour.
SPEAKERS
Maja Kaurin, Jeannette Hanenburg, Inez Michiels
LANGUAGE
English-Nederlands
Together we will explore the notion of real (measured) and perceived colour and analyse the intricate dynamics of colour, form, scale, material and pattern. Exploring the narrative of the past will offer the inspiration for the stories of today, your stories.
Through colour matching, you will create colour palettes and develop your own colour combinations inspired directly by the exhibition, the stories from mythology and eventually your own stories and memories. You will explore these colour narratives and colour associations by creating art compositions, combining collages of coloured paper and written words. The old stories are thus to give birth to the new ones.
The workshop ends with a mini art exhibition of participants’ work.
By the end of the workshop, you will:
- learn how to view, record, analyse and experiment with colour
- expand skills and grow confidence in making colour choices, creating cohesive and meaningful colour palettes and combinations
- form a narrative through colour and composition
- understand and translate historical colour information into an art or design project, inspired by personal reflection, the power of storytelling and memory
- gain a set of new skills and tools for your creative practice
- gain confidence to explore and recognise the multifaceted nature of colour and the ability to discuss colour, colour associations and cultural connections
- learn to ask critical questions about the role and meaning of colour in antiquity, art, design and architecture
PROGRAM
10:15 – 10:30 > Reception
10:30 – 12:30 > PART 1
Welcome and orientation / Presentation / Visit of the exhibition / Colour measurement and notation / Discussion
12:30 – 13:30 > lunch break
13:30 – 16:00 > PART 2
Presentation / Colour matching / Colour palettes creation / Analysis / Colour associations / Developing a narrative / Creating colour compositions / Display of participant’s work
16:00 > Additional free time to visit the exhibition
PRICE
ICA-Belgium/ AiNB members: €110
Non-members: €165
Students*: €35
*Full time students mininmum age 16, with a valid student card.
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INCLUDED
Entrance fee for the exhibition ‘Antiquity in Colour’.
All materials are provided, including the tools for colour measurement, coloured papers, pencils, markers, printed forms for colour notation and papers for final colour compositions.
NOT INCLUDED
A lunch or snack can be ordered at the museum’s restaurant (Museum Café). There you can enjoy delicious meals, sandwiches, a cup of good coffee, refreshing regional beers, and more. You are also free to bring your own lunch.
Participants bring glue, a ruler, scissors or a paper cutter, and optionally a cutting board, own pencils and markers.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Maja Kaurin is a multidisciplinary designer working in architectural, interior and colour design, creating environments that optimise human health and wellbeing. She holds a degree in Architecture from the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Architecture and a MSc in Colour Dynamics (Environmental Colour Design) from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Architecture. She is working on urban rehabilitation projects designing urban colour plans and chromatic city maps, as well as designing public and residential buildings. She is interested in the methodologies of (urban) colour
mapping and participatory design involving local communities. She is vice president of the Belgian Colour Association ICA-Belgium, and a member of AIC Study Groups on Environmental Colour Design and Colour Education.
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Jeannette Hanenburg is the founder of the ColourProfessionals institute in Antwerp, a training centre for colour specialists, with a diverse offer of courses and training in the field of colour. She believes that a real understanding of colour can only be achieved by experiencing the interactions of colour and that it involves lifelong learning. Jeannette is a member of AIC and its four international study groups on Colour Education, Environmental Colour Design, the Language of Colour, and Arts & Design. She is a co-founder of the Belgian Colour Association ICA-Belgium. Besides working with colour, Jeannette loves to travel. These travels are often with a colour theme. She likes to visit conferences, trade fairs and exhibitions at home and abroad to keep abreast of new developments in the field of trends and colour. colourprofessionals.eu
Inez Michiels is professor of Colour and Semantic Design at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Visuels de La Cambre in Brussels, as well as visiting
professor for graphic designers at MICA, Baltimore USA, and visiting professor at the interior architecture and industrial design departments of the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Inez is co-founder and president of CITY of 8, a design semantics research association. She has spent over 30 years studying the meaning and affective effects of non-verbal communication. Several companies and design agencies have drawn on her expertise. She’s the author of numerous articles and books, as well as the Design Semantics Database. Concurrently, she is a co-founder and board member of the Belgian Interdisciplinary Colour Association ICA-Belgium.
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Get inspired by beautiful Tongeren, while attending the workshop.
We welcome you to the oldest city of Belgium, which already had inhabitants from the 15th century BC. So, no wonder the Gallo-Roman Museum was founded in this lovely old town, not far from the borders of The Netherlands and Germany.
This Creative Colour Workshop is a collaboration between the Belgium Interdisciplinary Colour Association ICA-Belgium and the Gallo-Roman Museum in Tongeren, Belgium.
This workshop is a sponsored by RAL Colours.