Community & Public Workshops

For curious minds, regardless of background. No art experience necessary.

These programmes bring colour into direct contact with everyday life — the neighbourhood, the street, the museum, the memory. They are open to anyone, and deliberately so. Some of the most interesting conversations about colour happen when designers sit alongside people who have never thought analytically about it before.

Colourscapes: A Walking Practice

A workshop that combines the restorative power of walking with environmental observation and creative expression through abstract collage.

Participants begin with a guided introduction to colour mapping, then take to the streets — observing colours, textures, patterns, light and sound in the environment around them. Back at the venue, they translate those observations into individual colour palettes and, finally, into abstract collage compositions that reflect both the place and their own response to it.

No art experience is required. The only prerequisite is a willingness to look differently at the world you already move through every day.

"I loved the experience — to discover a new world of colours, the contact with nature, the human moment." — Workshop participant, Brussels 2025

Previously offered at PLEK Brussels and the Brussels Botanical Garden, in the context of the exhibition Collective Roots: Innerscapes of Healing (2025)

Format: Half day (4 hours) | Group size: Maximum 10 | Available for cultural centres, community organisations, and health-related institutions

Colour Stories: Mapping the Living Past

A creative investigation into the Colours of Antiquity

A full-day workshop developed in collaboration with ICA-Belgium and the Gallo-Roman Museum in Tongeren, set within their exhibition Antiquity in Colour. Participants explored the colours of selected works through direct observation, colour measurement and notation, building palettes directly from the exhibition and then developing original colour compositions — collages of coloured paper and written words — inspired by the stories of antiquity and their own memories.

"Today I learnt to be free and intuitive again in working with colours." — Workshop participant, Tongeren 2024

This format — a workshop embedded in a museum exhibition, using the collection as direct material — is adaptable to other institutional contexts and collections.

Previously offered at the Gallo-Roman Museum, Tongeren (2024)Format: Full day | Audience: Creative professionals, students, and history and colour enthusiasts | Available for museum and cultural institution booking

Professional Workshops & Lectures

For architects, interior designers, graphic designers, and creative professionals across disciplines.

These workshops are designed for people who work with colour professionally but want to go deeper into perception, interaction, meaning, spatial application, and the evidence base behind colour's effects on human behaviour and wellbeing. They work equally well as professional development for studio teams, as guest modules within architecture or design programmes, or as CPD events organised by professional associations.

Chromatic Resonance

A workshop exploring colour through music, in collaboration with pianist Gabriela Quel

Coming in late 2026

Do you see colours when you listen to music? You might, without knowing it.

Chromatic Resonance is an interactive workshop that explores the intimate relationship between music and colour - through listening, association, and creative expression. Developed in collaboration with Argentinian pianist Gabriela Quel, it brings together two sensory worlds that have always spoken to each other, and invites participants to discover their own colour language through sound and experience music in a different way.

No musical training is needed. No art experience is required. Only a willingness to pay attention in a new way.

The workshop runs for approximately three hours and is open to all - musicians, designers, artists, and anyone curious about how the senses speak to one another.

This workshop will be offered at select venues in Belgium and beyond. Sign up to stay informed about dates and locations.

Colour & Wellbeing: The Impact of Spatial Colour on Health

Lecture and presentation

How can a strategic use of colour promote and improve health and wellbeing? How does colour affect mood, behaviour and productivity? And what does the evidence actually say?

This lecture explores how colour, applied strategically and with an understanding of environmental colour research, can positively impact spatial perception, mood, motivation, safety, healing and social interaction - across public, healthcare, residential and workplace environments. It draws on current research in environmental psychology, neuroaesthetics and colour science, grounded in real project examples.

Available as a standalone lecture, a workshop introduction, or as part of a broader professional development programme.

Previously presented at PLEK Brussels, in the context of the exhibition Collective Roots: Innerscapes of Healing (2025).

Format: 60-90 minutes | Audience: Design professionals, healthcare and educational organisations, cultural institutions

Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue?

Perception, Interaction, Meaning

A full-day colour design workshop exploring the relationship between colour, personality, shape, composition and the senses. Structured across four interconnected parts - Personality Design, Interaction of Colour, Colour and Meaning, and Applied Synaesthetics - this workshop gives participants both a theoretical framework and a set of practical tools they can bring directly into their creative practice.

Suitable for professionals and students in architecture, interior design, graphic design, branding, product development, textile design, fashion, illustration, art education and beyond.

Previously offered in collaboration with ICA-Belgium, Antwerp (2023)

Format: Full day | Audience: Creative professionals and students | Available for institutional booking

Sensing Place

A colour workshop rooted in the identity of a historic site, in collaboration with Tina Stieger

Coming in 2027

Every place has a colour story. In the weathered stone of an old wall, in the dialogue between moss and mortar, in the way light shifts across a surface as clouds move - colour records the passage of time, of seasons, of lives lived in a place. Most of us walk past this story without stopping to read it.

Sensing Place is a workshop that teaches you to stop and look.

Set within a historic site of exceptional character - a place that has inspired poets, writers and travellers for generations - this workshop uses colour as a tool for deep observation and creative response.

The process is slow by design. It nurtures attention, intuition, and the particular kind of seeing that comes when you allow a place to speak before you respond to it.

Developed in collaboration with Tina Stieger, designer and founder of Embassy of Colour, Sensing Place brings together expertise in environmental colour design and a deep sensitivity to the identity of place.

Open to designers, artists, and anyone drawn to the idea of reading a place through its colours.

The first edition of Sensing Place will take place at a carefully chosen historic site in Belgium. Location and dates to be announced. Sign up to be the first to know.

Teaching & Custom Programmes

Beyond individual workshops, Studio Kromatika offers:

University and school modules - guest teaching in architecture, interior design, and art education programmes, covering environmental colour design, colour strategy in spatial design, colour perception and application, and colour and wellbeing. Available as single sessions or multi-week modules, designed around your programme's specific needs and level.

Bespoke institutional workshops - workshops designed from scratch for a specific institution, team, or context. Whether you are a school exploring how colour affects your pupils' environment, a hospital design team approaching a renovation, or a municipality engaging a community in a public space project - I will design a programme that fits your situation, your space, and your people.

Lecture programme - individual lectures on colour strategy, environmental colour design, colour and wellbeing, colour history and meaning, and the use of colour as a design tool. Available for conferences, symposia, professional association events, and academic programmes.

All custom programmes begin with a conversation. Get in touch and tell me what you are working on.

Every programme I offer began as a question I wanted to explore with other people. If you have a question about colour - in your building, your institution, your community, or your own practice - let's find a way to explore it together.