Ghent Design Factory
Empowering people at Ghent University to transform the world through innovation.
Ghent Design Factory mission
Ghent Design Factory wants to promote and facilitate passion-based learning and learning-by-doing. It is a playground that wants to facilitate projects and initiatives that have a positive impact on our society. Transdisciplinarity and multiperspectivity are essential to achieve this.
Ghent Design Factory is offers knowledge about how to apply this to education and research and helps people within Ghent University to do this. It collects (sustainability) problems from society (industry, government, organisations, individuals, …) on a local, regional and international level that can be tackled in classes, research or projects. It builds networks with local, regional and international partners that are doing similar things in order to collaborate. The networks can lead to projects and mobility of staff and students.
Ghent Design Factory bundles 4 intiatives and locations at Ghent University: The Foundry, Industrial Design Centre, De Krook and the Fablab. It is part of Design Factory Global network, which links spaces with the same vision.
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