CURRENT
ABC-HOUSE SCHOOL VISITS 2025-2026
STUDIO IN MOTION
Panta rhei*, everything flows, everything moves; plants, people, objects and even stories and ideas are constantly transforming.
Things are moving individually or in group, in the same direction or each in a different direction. Sometimes they are driven by natural or mechanical forces at other times they steer themselves.We think we see something shifting while it stays where it is or we do not even notice that something is changing – because it is too familiar or too large: the world turning, the rhythm of breathing and circulation, a rippling stream, the passage of time….
In this studio, we don’t sit still ourselves, but put the whole ABC house in motion!
Turning matchboxes into automata, leaving traces while dancing, testing Newton’s laws, playing with shadows on the wall, growing stories through time or building the longest domino track in the world.
*Panta Rhei: ‘Everything flows'(Greek: πάντα ῥεῖ) philosophical statement and thought attributed to the presocratic philosopher Heraclitus
SCHOOL VISITS ABC-HOUSE OCTOBER 2025 – JUNE 2026
Bookings on Tuesday September 9th, 9am only by phone 02 502 00 27
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ABC HOUSE HOLIDAY WORKSHOPS 2025
FULLY BOOKED – to register on the waiting list: mail@abc-web.be
Holiday courses 2025
Holiday workshop KLEUR ALCHEMIE: from 07/07 to 11/07/2025
Holiday workshop IN MOTION: from 25/08 to 29/08/2025
More information about the holiday courses can be found here
PRACTICAL
– In Dutch
– ABC holiday courses are focused on primary school children (first to sixth grade). We provide a mix of playful, creative and energetic activities.
– Children are divided by age into groups of max. 10, support is provided by experienced ABC-guides.
– Opening hours: from 9:00 to 16:00 – additional care is possible beforehand from 8:30 and afterwards until 17:00.
– Price: 175 euros /first child, 165 euros /second child, 145 euros/third child (family) / 60 euros Paspartoe reduction rate.
– Bring a packed lunch.
CONSULTATION DAYS ABC LIBRARY
ABC RESEARCH CENTER
FREE RESEARCH – CONSULTATION DAYS ABC LIBRARY
Several days a month the house is open for free research and consultation in our library. Teachers, educators, students, parents, scientists, artists and other interested parties can spend an entire afternoon or evening finding inspiration, researching, preparing lessons, working on internship projects and meeting each other. Upon request, we are happy to give a tour of our collection or introduction to our way of working. An ABC staff member can support you in your research.
PRACTICAL
Monday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
01/09, 15/09, 29/09, 13/10, 03/11, 24/11 and 08/12/2025
Tuesday from 4 p.m. till 8 p.m.
19/08, 09/09, 23/09, 17/10, 21/10, 18/11, 02/12 and 16/12/2025
POSTA SILENZIOSA 07/2025
Every first day of the month ABC sends a mail: “Posta silenziosa.” A powerful image, a provocative quote, a poetic thought, etc., coming from the ABC collection or the web, and sometimes linked to one of our current projects, but mainly just because we like to surprise you. An eye- or heartcatcher, or call it ‘a healthy form of emotional irritation.’
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TO READ
ARTS & EDUCATION
What can education learn from the arts about the practice of education? Elliot W. Eisner argues that the distinctive forms of thinking needed to create artistically crafted work are relevant not only to what students do, they are relevant to virtually all aspects of what we do, from the design of curricula, to the practice of teaching, to the features of the environment in which students and teachers live. Originally given as the John Dewey Lecture for 2002, Stanford University. Read more … WikiPedia …
Wat kan het onderwijs van de kunsten leren ? Elliot W. Eisner stelt dat de specifieke denkvormen die vereist zijn voor het creëren van kunstwerken niet alleen van belang zijn voor wat leerlingen doen, maar voor nagenoeg alles wat we doen, van het vormgeven van curricula, het onderwijzen zelf, tot het ontwerpen van de omgevingen waarin leerlingen en leraars leven. Origineel uitgesproken in 2002 als John Dewey Lecture aan de universiteit van Stanford. Lees meer … WikiPedia …
