Kitchen ACTS ~ formal framework 2026-2027
Kitchen ACTS asks each student to present and activate their research in a performative context. During a student's two year long journey with DAI, they get to do four (4) Kitchen Acts in total. The fourth, festive iteration draws the trajectory to a close and is branded and published under the name AEROPONIC ACTS.
First and second year students present in a soft curated line up scheduled for each Confluence. Their Kitchen ACTS trajectory and assesment/grading is divergent.
The content descriptions relating to this curriculum component are to be found here:
KITCHEN ACTS curatorial framework 2026-2027
General introduction to the terms in use: GLOSSARY
FIRST YEAR STUDENTS (INCOMING 2026)
* Compulsory Choice |KITCHEN ACTS: 17 ECTS | 476 hours in total
* Contact hours: 192 hours
* Self-study: 284 hours
ELABORATION ON CONTACT HOURS:
What: 17 days of Kitchen individual presentations.
Mandatory presence during all Kitchens (attendance of all presentations, including all response sessions) by all peers whereby 100% attendance is strongly recommended, but if there are urgent reasons for non-attendance, the student is, by law, allowed to miss out on 2 days, without an additional task above the required hours of self-study.
Mandatory personal Kitchen presentation 1 & 2 - are to be considered exams and can not be skipped.
Mandatory presence during FINAL FIRST YEAR KITCHENS Confluence 6.
Mandatory attendance of 2 coaching sessions on offer.
Mandatory committed attendance of the AEROPONIC ACTS (including all response sessions).
ELABORATION ON SELF - STUDY:
Preparation for 2 Kitchen presentations in this academic year.
Preparations in support of Kitchen presentations by peers.
ELABORATION ON TESTING:
Kitchen presentation 1 & 2: orally transmitted formative responses by guest respondents: non-violent critique and constructive dialogue based on a question presented by the student, weighed by the Head of Program and against the Intended Learning Outcomes | Final Qualifications | Competencies and with 1) Praxis, 2) Discovery, 3) Realization of creative potential, 4) Presentation & Communication, 5) Research & Contextualization, 6) Critical Analysis & Reflection, 7) Collaboration and 8) Transcultural awareness & skills to be considered as the scope of investigation - building up to final grade after concluding the two-year trajectory.
*The Grade is signed off by the Head of Program / assessor and the study trajectory counsellor ~ certified BKE examiner.
*KITCHEN ACTS for Year#1 is concluded successfully when the student is credited with a ‘PASS’ in the overall assessment.
SECOND YEAR STUDENTS (INCOMING 2025)
* Compulsory Choice |KITCHEN ACTS: 17 ECTS | 476 hours in total
* Contact hours: 192 hours
* Self-study: 284 hours
ELABORATION ON CONTACT HOURS:
What: 17 days of Kitchen individual presentations.
Mandatory presence during all Kitchens (attendance of all presentations, including all response sessions) by all peers whereby 100% attendance is strongly recommended, but if there are urgent reasons for non-attendance, the student is, by law, allowed to miss out on 1,5 days, without an additional task above the required hours of self-study.
Mandatory personal Kitchen presentation 3 & 4 (4= AEROPONIC ACT) - are to be considered exams and can not be skipped.
Mandatory attendance of the coaching sessions on offer towards AEROPONIC ACTS.
Mandatory committed attendance of the AEROPONIC ACTS - Kitchen 4 (including all response sessions).
Mandatory presence during FINAL FIRST YEAR KITCHENS Confluence 6.
Mandatory participation as respondent in the Final First Year Kitchen of the peers in the first year.
ELABORATION ON SELF - STUDY:
Preparation for presentations 3+4 (AEROPONIC ACT)
Preparations in support of Kitchen presentations by peers
ELABORATION ON TESTING:
Kitchen presentation 3: orally transmitted formative responses by guest respondents: non-violent critique and constructive dialogue based on a question presented by the student.
The formative responses by the guest responses during Kitchen 4, the AEROPONIC ACT, come with a written report, published on the AEROPONIC ACTS page of each individual second year student.
The Final Grade comes as a summative response based on the learning curve during the two-year trajectory and is informed by the entire Kitchen Acts modus operandi of the student and weighed by the Head of Program and against the Intended Learning Outcomes | Final Qualifications | Competencies and with 1) Praxis, 2) Discovery, 3) Realization of creative potential, 4) Presentation & Communication, 5) Research & Contextualization, 6) Critical Analysis & Reflection, 7) Collaboration and 8) Transcultural awareness & skills to be considered as the scope of investigation.
*The Grade is signed off by the Head of Program / assessor and the study trajectory counsellor ~ certified BKE examiner.
*KITCHEN ACTS for Year#2 is concluded successfully when the student is credited with at least a ‘satisfactory’’ in the overall assessment.
Evaluation standards:
Insufficient, Satisfactory, Very Satisfactory, Good, Very Good, Excellent.