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Shoaib - Animation
artist – designer – digital craft maker
Workshop : Animation 2D
Shoaib teaches animation to individuals seeking a visual language for their artistic feelings. His animation course is a guide for those with curious minds who wish to express their deepest artistic ideas through animation, creating work that resonates with the eyes and soul of their audience.
About Shoaib
Shoaib Zaheer began his artistic journey at a young age in the art markets of Afghanistan. In 2019, he participated in ODC, a platform where he showcased his storytelling and artistic skills through animation. Later, he studied Media Art at KASK, where he combined his traditional artistic skills with electronic and digital media.
The animation that illuminated his path, The Survival, was a mixed-medium project that deepened his engagement with Belgium’s geographic and artistic landscape, marking the beginning of a profound journey. While developing his career in media art, he ultimately earned a master’s degree in visual art in Belgium. Though he explores various mediums to express his artistic vision, animation remains his true passion. He describes it as, “Animation isn’t just a sequence of moving images; it’s a complete world of storytelling—from brainstorming and writing plots to selecting forms and mediums, editing, adding vocals, music, and voices, and finally presenting your work to an audience.”
Ersel - Vector drawing
visual storyteller
Workshop : Reuse-it
Re-use it subjectively selects objects from Collections of Ghent/De Collectie van de Gentenaar and samples patterns and color combinations, for later re-use. These combinations are open to the public so they can reuse them in the way they want.
The samples live on a webpage where you can download them, the extension file is SVG : https://reuse-it.github.io/home/archive.html
The project aims to save the unique designs and colors from being stuck and to bring them to life again with different works in different concepts. In this way, it aims to reach more people and live for a much longer period of time. Besides, it provides people, especially creatives, with new and different tools that they can use.
About
Re-use it is an experiment initiated by Ersel Musmul during the 2021 Open Design Course and was initially created to explore the possibilities of the artifacts on display at the Design Museum Ghent, an active partner of the ODC 2021 program.
Iman - jewelry / stencil printing on fabric / lino printing
multidisciplinary artist – teacher
Workshop : jewelry
The workshop is for making your own jewelry. Each person can make a pair of ear-rings using the enamel technique. We’ll need metal (usually brass) and enamel.
The space should have good ventilation, sturdy tables, electricity, and water. Some parts of the workshop can be noisy because we might use a small hammer to shape the metal. The workshop can be done in one day, from morning to afternoon.
Workshop : lino printing
This workshop is about lino printing. Each person can make a small stamp to print on fabric, and afterward, we can create a larger tapestry using everyone’s prints.
About Iman
I am a multidisciplinary artist, originally from Iran and currently based in Antwerp.
I have studied graphic design, but I also engage actively in painting and drawing. Additionally, I have experience with sewing and various other handcrafts.
In Iran, I worked part-time as an art teacher, where I taught foundational elements and techniques of painting.
In Belgium, I have volunteered and collaborated with organizations such as FAMUS.
I have conducted, and continue to conduct, workshops on various occasions, primarily focused on stencil and lino printing on fabric. I also led two workshops at the Plantin-Moretus Museum, one on February 21 and another on April 21, 2023.
Furthermore, I completed a training program with ODC and participated in the “Connected Dots” trajectory in both Ghent and Antwerp. I also completed a year of graphic design studies at Encora School for adults in Antwerp. also followed the course of “basic art director” also in Encora.
Workshop : stencil printing
The workshop is stencil printing on fabric. Each person can print a design on their own t-shirt.
