International Training Program (ITP)
Cross-cultural learning. Creative education. Shared futures.
ITP is a cross-cultural education platform co-developed with VLU–UOS in Belgium. It brings together Filipino and European educators and artists to co-create learning modules, certifications, and exchange programs. The program supports project-based learning rooted in culture, memory, and participation.
Participants
Teresita Mellanny A. Aquino – ARC+SFAD
Melanie S. Botor – SFAD
Ma. Bienvenida T . Candelaria – SFAD
Earl Clarence L. Jimenez – SOM
Amiel Kim Q. Kapitan – SOM
Sammuel A. Occeno – SFAD
Portia Placino – ARC
Mervy C. Pueblo – SFAD
Josephine L. Turalba – SFAD
Guest Lecturers
Dr. Johan De Walsche – is an associate professor of architecture at the Faculty of Design Sciences at the University of Antwerp. His research interests focus on architectural research methodology, design research, architectural education and the research teaching nexus in the architectural design studio.
Dr. Giusy Caruso – is chairwoman of the CREATIE Research Group at Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, promotor, artist-researcher and professional concert pianist oriented towards the futuristic nexus of art-science-technology.
Dr. Adilia on-Ying Yip (Royal Conservatoire Antwerpen) is a post-doctoral researcher and marimba/percussion performer. She is the main investigator for the project “ReSoXy – Re-sounding the xylophone collection of Royal Museum for Central Africa, T ervuren”, jointly funded by Science Policy Office and Royal Academy Antwerp.
Clara Balaguer – (Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam) is a Filipina cultural worker interested in the decolonisation of cultural production most especially through the lens of the contemporary vernacular.
Dr. Vivi Touloumidi – (Royal Academy Antwerpen) is a contextual artist, researcher and a craftswoman trained in contemporary craft and jewellery. She is lecturer at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and a co-curator of the artistic research seminar METHOD/ART .
Florian Cramer – is a writer, photographer, filmmaker and theorist. He is a reader in 21st Century Visual Culture at Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, an art and design school which is part of Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences (Hogeschool Rotterdam).
Dr.Garine Gokceyan – (Sint Lucas Antwerpen) is an independent graphic designer based in Brussels and born in Beirut, working on multidisciplinary pedagogic and social projects using Armenian, English, French and Arabic languages.
Dr.Wendy Morris – (South African/Belgian) is an artist and professor in contemporary art at KU Leuven and LUCA. Unique to her current practice are her Libraries, Diaries, Dictionaries, Letters and Travelogues.
