Individual Project Work 1
Summary
During the summer of 2026 the freestanding summer course Individual Project Work 1 – Games and Artistic Practice will explore how game-based thinking can challenge and enrich your artistic practice.
The course will support you to develop projects (either as an individual or in partnership with other students enrolled on the course). The course is based on online presentations, seminars, and supervision in combination with on-site / hybrid intensive workshops.
About
What can you, as an artist, do with games? How can game-based thinking challenge and enrich your artistic practice? In this course, you will explore games as a creative method, a form of philosophical experimentation, and an expanding space for expression, particularly for marginalised communities and specific social perspectives.
You will examine tools and conceptual approaches from the knowledge field of games and explore how they can be applied—or reinterpreted—across different artistic disciplines.
The course includes hands-on workshops on how to think in games terms, and how to create simple games. An equal emphasis is placed on theoretical frameworks, such the construction of social inclusion through forms of play. We will explore how shifting attitudes toward play have been used to address urgent political issues and how games can offer new ways to engage with your surroundings.
How can games create new spaces for thought and action? What happens when games are used as tools for questioning and reshaping rules and conventions?
You are encouraged to explore how ideas and methods from game thinking can inspire your own artistic practice. You will also gain access to simple tools for creating your own interactive digital game—no prior programming experience is required. The course is designed to support your individual artistic development, whether or not your practice is directly game-related.
The course consists of online presentations, seminars, and supervision, combined with on-site/hybrid intensive workshops. This year’s teaching team includes Ewa Einhorn, Carina Erdmann, Karolin Meunier, and Cathryn Klasto.
Prerequisites and selection
Entry requirements
General entry requirements and at least 60 higher education credits in fine art, craft or design or equivalent.
Special instructions for application
Apply in three steps
1. Apply for the course at universityadmissions.se/antagning.se. Deadline: March 16, 2026.
2. Submit a motivation letter in Slideroom, maximum 3000 characters including spaces. Deadline: March 16, 2026.
The Motivation letter should describe your artistic practice and how you think the focus of the course could contribute to your artistic development. You do not need to have a specific project in mind. However, if there is something you would like to develop, such as an existing project or a particular aspect of your practice, you are welcome to include this.
You may choose to contextualise your practice within one or more fields relevant to your interests. This could include, for example, art history, politics, philosophy, sound, film, architecture, activism, play, games, or any other field that is relevant and informs your practice.
Please note: You do not need to have previous experience in making games. The course offers an open and experimental way to apply ideas from games and play to your own artistic practice.
The letter can be written in English or Swedish.
Your motivation letter will be assessed based on the following criteria:
- ability to coherently communicate artistic interests, motivations, and intentions in a written text
- ability to position these interests and experiences in relation to the course description and its thematic focus
3. Submit documentation proving you meet the entry requirements of the
course on universityadmissions.se, or apply with prior learning (reell
kompetens). Deadline: March 16, 2026.
Applying with prior learning:
If you do not have 60 credits in fine arts, crafts, design or an equivalent subject, you can apply with prior learning. Submit course certificates/diplomas from relevant artistic
training and/or professional experience and artistic work samples, 1-5 samples of your artistic work. The chosen work should be up to date.
An application for prior learning is submitted to universityadmissions.se/antagning.se before the application deadline.
Selection
The selection is based on a submitted Letter of Intent.
