Our Bachelor Audiovisual Design encompasses a variety of forms, techniques, styles and applications of audiovisual media.
Our students make films and videos, podcasts, installations, interactives, immersives and performances. They apply all kinds of genres: documentary, essay, fiction and everything in between. The common denominator is that the end results always focus on an involved and substantive story, which is told by means of images and sound.
The creative process is at the core of this course. We teach our students how a creative process works and how to build their own process. Conducting research, experiments and reflection are indispensable in doing so. Independently, but also together with fellow students. This way, students continue to grow and develop as creators and support each other in this learning process.
Because we operate in a broad and dynamic field, we expect an independent and enterprising attitude from our students. Besides the fixed part of the curriculum, students shape their own studies based on their own interests and needs. In the Stations of the Academy you will find a variety of knowledge, skills and techniques that you can draw on: Interaction Station, Image & Sound Station, Publication Station, Material Station, Drawing Station, Fabric Station, Business Station, Education Station and Research Station.
We educate makers who are at the heart of society and who want to contribute or change, using their own voice and skills: enterprising, critical and committed.
Cover project: MA'MAQUEEN by Esmée van Loon.
Open Days & Recruitment activities
Want to know more about life at the Willem de Kooning Academy?
Check out our extended programme, full of (online) activities and interaction with student ambassadors and tutors via this link.
Knowledge & skills
- Concept development
- Independent attitude
- Critical and curious thinking
- Exploring your own imagery
- Sound and camera techniques
- Production methods
- Working with a crew
- Communicating with clients/crew/audience
- Software techniques
- ...and more
The creative process is at the core of this course.
Career opportunities
- All-round audiovisual designer
- Interactive audiovisual producer
- Director
- Motion graphics designer
- Sound designer
- Editor
- Interactive designer
- (Audio)visual artist
- ...and more
Stations
Most study activities take place at the Stations (Workspaces). All students, regardless of their bachelor programme or year, are welcome to work at the Stations. These are places where students can test their ideas and figure out how to turn them into fully functioning creations. They can experiment with tools, techniques, materials, and equipment, and receive support and inspiration by working with fellow students, tutors, and instructors.
For more detailed information about our Stations, please visit this webpage
Dual Degree programme
Are you artistically talented, and at the same time thirsty for academic knowledge? The Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) and the Willem de Kooning Academy (WdKA) offer you the possibility to combine theory and practice within a five-year Dual Degree programme. Students completing the RASL programme obtain two bachelor degrees: one from the EUR (Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science) and one from WdKA (Bachelor of Arts).
