FREEHOUSE RADICALIZING THE LOCAL
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM, WORKSHOPS AND DELIBERATIONS
ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS JANUARY 15 – 17, 2014
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International closing symposium of the
organisational form in order to combine value determination, local qualities, organisation, art, economy, initiative and co partnership.
Radicalizing the Local Freehouse has focused since 1998 on the micro-urbanism emerging in small communities across the city. The project is based on inclusive urban development through community participation and self-organisation and on co-operative cultural production as a means for economic and social growth. In 2008 Freehouse became involved in the development of the Afrikaanderwijk in the south of Rotterdam. It tested new plans for the market and successfully setup several communal workshops. In order to secure the gathered capital and qualities for its inhabitants, Freehouse developed a skill-based Neighbourhood Co-op that will take over its functions s as of 2014.
Freehouse is a project initiated by Jeanne van Heeswijk and is made possible in collaborations with local and international experts. This symposium is made possible with the support and collaboration of the Mondriaan Fund, Creative Industries Fund NL, Stadsontwikkeling Gemeente Rotterdam, Stichting DOEN and AIR.
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INTRODUCTION
Freehouse art project on co-ops as an
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C O N T E N T PA G E
Since we’re not able to accommodate all who expressed interest in attending, we will be tweeting live updates from the conference and allowing people to interact remotely via Twitter using #fhrtl (for FreeHouse: Radicalizing TheLocal). See the website for update information and livestreaming: wwww.radicalzingthelocal.com Internet access network: Wijkwaardehuis GASTEN, password: wijk-web
Freehouse 5 Locations symposium 6 presentation Synopsis 8 daily program 16 DAY 1
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biographies 22 HOSTS / SPEAKERS / MODERATORS / CRITICAL REFERENTS / REPORTERS
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FREEHOUSE
Since its inception in 1999, Freehouse has created space for encounter, both literally as well as metaphorically. It stimulates local inhabitants and shopkeepers, youngsters, artists and designers to exchange knowledge, experience and ideas. The connection of cultural with economic capital results in co-productions that mutually benefit participants socially and economically. Moreover, the resulting products also make the underlying cultural process visible. Inspired skill can powerfully lead people’s development. Unfortunately, Rotterdam does not always take the creative potential of its inhabitants seriously, especially in the South of the city. From 2008 onwards, Freehouse therefore has applied its approach to the Afrikaanderwijk. Economic sustainability is aimed through co-operative cultural production. And inclusive urban development is achieved through community participation and self-organisation. As the neighbourhoods surrounding of the Afrikaanderwijk are being redeveloped with middle class dwellings, Freehouse worked towards making the existing inhabitants share in the economic benefits of the redevelopment. Despite diminishing public funds for the Afrikaanderwijk, Freehouse has been able to intensify its activities and to grow its organisation. It tested new plans for the market and successfully set up several communal workshops. As a result, the neighbourhood and its market are becoming a vibrant community again and the area was put on the map as a lively spot for cultural production, both nationally and internationally. In order to secure the accumulated capital and qualities for its inhabitants, Freehouse developed a skill-based neighbourhood co-op that will continue its work in 2014.
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SYMPOSIUM LOACTIONS
COOPERATIVE STORE of goods 01 and values Pretorialaan 141 Since 2013 the Cooperative Store of Goods and Values is a meeting place for production, presentation, sale, services and knowledge exchange. Starting point is the quality already present in the area. It has become the heart and brain of alternative economical, social and cultural development in the south of Rotterdam. Located in a vacant monumental building, in the centre of the community, it forms a network of cultural producers, production spaces, shops and active inhabitants. This cooperative organisation combines a market space, a knowledge centre and a shopping mall. It is a neighbourhood service centre and information point at once.
02 NEIGHBOURHOOD KITCHEN Pretorialaan 141 The goal of the Neighbourhood Kitchen is to highlight the Afrikaanderwijk as an area where home cooks make the best dishes and unique cooperation’s are possible between inhabitants and shopkeepers. In keeping production local, the social and economic independence of the inhabitants and shopkeepers is actively stimulated. As such, the Neighbourhood Kitchen forms an important link in shaping of the area’s image.
Workshop locations 03 Boeren in Zicht Pretorialaan 10 Friedhelm Veldhuijzen offers products from local farmers and fishermen. Spices, vegetables, bread, meat and fish will be delivered at your door. Boeren in Zicht is one of the newer entrepreneurs in the area who combines a web shop with a regular store.
04 Cafe Akdeniz Pretorialaan 64 24-hour Afrikaanderwijk all in one spot: Cafe Akdeniz is one of the ‘dinosaurs’ in the area. The kitchen serves food all night. Rush hour is definitely not during the day and actually daylight never really enters… They are always open for new ideas and activities for the neighbourhood.
05 De Zuiderling Paul Krugerstraat 91a De Zuiderling is a new and local exchange coin for South Rotterdam. One Zuiderling stands for 30-minute’s time. It’s about investing talents and making use of the talents of others. Their office is located directly next to the market square.
Meram 06 Afrikaanderplein 2 Meram is a chain of restaurants in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. They offer a large variety of authentic Turkish cuisine and are famous for their hospitality. With its innovations, Meram strives to be an example for the restaurant business. They are deeply routed in Dutch society, but also keep a close relation to Turkey and its craftsmen.
07 NEIGHBOURHOOD WORKSHOP Paul Krugerstaat 147 In the Neighbourhood Workshop fashion production is combined with design and education. Amateurs and professionals collaborate and exchange skills. Local inhabitants have knowledge of materials and master techniques that are important and interesting for contemporary designers. By actively using this knowledge and techniques they will be passed on and preserved for the future. Participants are involved in the whole production process, from design to end product.
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Nina’s Lunchroom 08 Pretorialaan 14a Nina Daal has been running residential hotel Kus & Sloop (Kiss & Demolisch) in the Afrikaanderwijk since 2012, but the ambitious Nina wanted more. Recently her dream came true: a unique Antillean lunchroom combined with the lobby of her hotel. Every one is welcome for coffee and the daily changing specialities. From pan frances with chees or ham or salada di crab or bakijouw.
09 Snackbar Pretoria Pretorialaan 72 – 74 Snackbar Pretoria is one of the older snack bars in the area. It is famous for their roti and good atmosphere. It has both a Surinam section and a Halal section. The fresh food daily attracts customers from way outside the neighbourhood.
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DAY 1 P resentation S ynops I s
HOST DAY 1
Matteo Lucchetti (project visible)
INTRODUCTION
On Day 1 of the Radicalizing the Local international symposium we are going to address a set of recurring topics that have surely been part of the fundamental questions that have been raised over the ten years life of the Freehouse, which we are about to see parting in favor of a new organization form that will step in the neighborhood and its complex local dynamics. On the etymological side the vocabulary that fed the narrative of such a project, and of the other similarly community-based ones, will be scrutinized through a digression on the genealogy of the philosophical deconstruction of the word community, as seen from the perspective of psychoanalysis and cultural theory studies, so to facilitate a common understanding of the instituent nature of the community. Words like cooperation and collective action will be also looked over, for their capacity to suggest a methodological choice that doesn’t rely on the canonical forms of the market or the aid of the State. Can these two terminologies suggest a temporary independency from the traditional forms of organization, or rather can they represent a viable, constant, inspiration in re-thinking, through a plurality of voices, the bureaucratized forms of governance that our societies are stuck in? With similar concerns in mind it will be presented the idea for a Transnational Republic of Choice, where the richness that is left out of the Nation-State narrative can get together by capitalizing the advantages of a globalized world. What is a radicalized local in the end? If the local, the locus, the place, is already, in its origin, so deeply connected to the roots of a specific place, how can we radicalize it even more? Can the radicalized local become then a critical being in motion, truly able to connect subjects through globalization, in virtue of a less abstract understanding of the public sphere, its economies and its multifaceted human side?
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Henk Oosterling (rotterdam vakmanstad)
Critical Referent 1
Rasmus Ugilt (aarhus university)
TITLE
Radicalizing The Local: New Organizational Forms
SYNOPSIS
How radical can the local become? Is the global rooted in the local? Is it that simple? Or is the local an inbetween, an ‘inter’ between the global and something else? Is this ‘something else’ coming to the fore once we radicalize the local? These questions disclose a perspective that reveals the micropolitical foundation of new organizational forms. Rotterdam Skillcity has been working in neighbourhoods in the South of Rotterdam for the past 10 years focusing on skills and craftsmanship. For RVS skill is will. But, as Richard Sennet emphasizes in his latest book Together, the most precious skill that founds all others is cooperation. Rotterdam Skillcity’s basic strategy accepts the educational value of this basic skill and has formulated a new E.P.I.C. on the city: Education, Participation (integration) Communication. In his presentation Oosterling will sketch both the practical and philosophical implications of this strategy. Speaker 2
Dorothee Richter (oncurating)
Critical Referent 2
Eva Visser (kenniscentrum creating 010)
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The Imaginary and the Community: Deliberations
Following the Deconstructivist Challenge of the Thinking of Community
SYNOPSIS
Even after the waning of the debates on communitarianism and liberalism as conducted intensively above all in the political sciences and political philosophy, discussion about community in general is evidently not diminishing. a major role has been played by endeavours to deconstruct the concept of community which took as their point of departure a discussion between Jean-Luc Nancy and Maurice Blanchot and were then continued beyond the borders of France in the Italian speaking regions as well, above all by Giorgio Agamben and Roberto Esposito. Since the translation of être Singulier Pluriel – Nancy’s chief thematic work –, if not before, discussions on the concept of community have also resumed in the German-speaking regions, if under a different omen and with other connotations. Beyond the
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limits of this field, however, a further, more recent, thread of discussion can also be discerned, likewise zeroing in on phenomena of community. Following a shared article with Lars Gertenbach on this topic, I want to link the debate on community with psychoanalytical and cultural-theoretical deliberations, and assayed to describe the characteristics of community-building anew on the basis of a constitutive element of the imaginary or fantasmatic. Speaker 3
Georg Zoche (transnational republic)
Critical Referent 3
Sue Bell Yanks (social practice)
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Open Source Citizenship, Currency and Identity
Management for Global Democracy
SYNOPSIS
The United Transnational Republics is the first known “3GO”: a Global Governmental Grassroots Organisation working towards the democratisation of the globalised world we find ourselves in. Democracy as we know it since the last two centuries only takes place within nation-states. At the same time globalisation happens globally, outside of national definitions, legislation or agreements. Obviously, there is no democratic representation of the individual on a transnational, global level. This leads to inherently undemocratic processes within globalisation. Currently, outside of the nation-states only consumer and national interests are being represented. Unfortunately, both our national as well as our consumer interests are in conflict with our global interest: the preservation of our environment, world peace, establishment of transnational legislation, etc. In order to realise democracy on a global level, the current political system needs to be expanded by one more federal level of representation: Citizen of a city, of a country, of a Transnational Republic. In this system all citizens of the world will be represented by their Transnational Republic of choice; together, the various Transnational Republics are forming The United Transnational Republics, where they are representing their citizens’ transnational interests – just as the various nation-states are assembling into The United Nations representing national interest.
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Speaker 4
Tine De Moor (institutions for collective action)
Critical Referent 4
Ethel Baraona (dpr-barcelona)
TITLE Homo Cooperans
Institutions for collective action and the compassionate society
SYNOPSIS
Parallel to the current social, economic, and ecological crisis, new institutions for collective action are rapidly developing. In domains where the government withdraws and the market fails, citizen collectives in care, energy, infrastructure, etc. that are set up by the public offer an accessible and affordable alternative at the local level. The media and scientists sometimes speak of a revolution taking place in our society. But is this true? Is this a turning point where the whole society is flipped upside down? Tine De Moor indicates, through a thousand years of history, in what way the current developments differ from earlier boosts in the development of institutions for collective action. Just like today, similar periods of growth for these type of institutions, were preceded by periods of accelerated development of the free market. As such, they constitute a correction mechanism and can play an important role in society, as a third governance model) alongside market and state. De Moor calls for institutional diversity, and the use of our knowledge about the functioning of institutions from the past to make the current trend sustainable.
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In order to assure the independence of The United Transnational Republics from the nation-states and in order to establish money as the “fourth power� of democracy, the Central Bank of The United Transnational Republics is issuing the transnational citizen currency payola. A very similar global monetary system (the bancor) was the British proposal promoted by Sir Meynard Keynes at the Bretton Woods Conference of 1944. Unfortunately, the US managed to clandestinely change the wording of the Bretton Woods contract before it was signed, thereby installing the US dollar as world key currency through what might be described as one of the biggest frauds of the last century.
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host DAY 2
Michael Birchall (university of wolverhampton)
INTRODUCTION
This panel presents a range of perspectives focusing on new economic forms and how changing the way we work, consume and produce may offer alternatives and change the systems of control. Under the influence of globalization, information systems, and the changing roles of economic and political governance, has transformed advanced capital, producing new situations, where an increasing number of workers have become engaged in precarious labour. Post-Fordism expanded with the revolts of 1968 and the fiat strikes of the 1970s; immaterial labour began to constitute this hegemony for all forms of production, including material and agricultural labour. Paolo Virno describes a number of signs of post-Fordist capitalism that mark radical changes in developed nations production systems relation to labor in the last 40 years. He states that, “post-fordism has annulled or complicated the traditional marxist correlation between the workers labour time and the degree of his or her exploitation”1. As labour is de-materialized and the division of labour in industrial production erodes, capital not only occupies the working hours during which products or goods are produced, It absorbs all of the workers time, as well as their existence. This exploitation can be seen in the labour of cultural workers – curators, artists, architects, designers, musicians, actors. These workers have become experts at balancing intermittent bouts of barely profitable creative work with additional routine jobs in the creative and service industries. Therefore, as cultural workers, are we able to devise solutions to the problems associated with advanced capitalism? Can work itself be the answer, since it has already altered our lives so much. As Kathy Weeks describes: “Work is not only a site of exploitation, domination, and antagonism, but also where we might find the power to create alternatives on the basis of subordinated knowledges, resistant subjectivities and emergent models of organisation”2. During this period of perceived economic recovery – from what is arguably the largest economic crisis since the second world war – what new economic forms have emerged as alternatives to neoliberal and capitalist
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1. Paulo Virno, A grammar of the multitude. 2004. 2. Kathi Weeks, The Problem With Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics and Postwar Imaginaries, 2004.
Speaker 1
Jaromil/Denis Roio (naba, milan)
Critical Referents 1 Enric Duran Girait & Raquel Benedicto
(cooperativa integral catalana) with Britt Jurgensen
(homebaked community landtrust and co-operative bakery)
TITLE Bitcoin: Hype or Reality?
Scenarios to Come in Digital Innovation
SYNOPSIS
Bitcoin is a decentralized system of digital authentication that facilitates the circulation of value on the Internet without the presence of any intermediaries, a characteristic that has often gained it the definition of digital cash or crypto currency: its triple-signed blockchain of contracts is used to record payment transactions. Since the early 2011 until now what has driven Bitcoin to its present popularity is its deployment as a decentralized financial system for transactions. It may be claimed that Bitcoin is one of the few grass-roots projects that makes its participants rich, but it may be argued it does so also by money laundering. Overall it seems that we are witnessing the emergence of a disruptive innovation for payment systems, analogue to what VOIP is for the telecommunication industry. The goal of this keynote is to step back from the results that are immediately evident in Bitcoin’s emergence and analyze this technical discovery with technoetic lenses: using an open mind and avoiding economic analysis, we’d like to envision what we can expect to come that can benefit society.
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infrastructures? Are cultural producers expected to contribute to this recovery, using entrepreneurial strategies favoured in the “big society”? Has it become conceivable during this period to imagine ourselves less dependent on conventional monetary systems, what are the alternatives to this? Are local, small scale operations the answer to the failings of multi-national corporations?
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Bitcoin’s line of progress won’t affects just the payment processing industry, it could have many more fields of application: the energy market, digital manufacturing, authentication, art and even governance. Speaker 2
Pelin Tan (mardin artuklu university)
Critical Referent 2
Silvia Simoncelli (brera art academy)
TITLE Relational Surplus and Its Dissemination in Art SYNOPSIS
What are the engagement methodologies, autonomy and search for alternative livelihoods, model of dissemination of surplus in such practices? I would like to give examples of several different art practices from Athens to Kyoto that try to create a non-capitalist time/space organization as well as contributions to resistance movements in urban space. Speaker 3
Eli Feghali & Rachel Plattus (new economy coalition)
Critical Referent 3
Christopher Robbins (ghana thinktank)
TITLE Spaces of Participation: Stories of Economic Democracy displacing
Corporate Rule
SYNOPSIS
This presentation explores the use of New Economic Forms: (1) In service of social movements (2) As parallel institutions for increasing access to and participation in the economy, and (3) As a means of creating more resilient communities. We argue that institutions of economic democracy can play any of these three vital roles, and offer pertinent examples from our work with the New Economy Coalition, a network of more than sixty organizations working in various ways to grow a more just and sustainable economic system. We explore questions of scale in the hope of demonstrating that efforts to effect economic system change have much to learn from the local.
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Speaker 4
Pedro Medina (yo creo en colombia)
Critical Referent 4
Jan Jongert (superuse studios)
SYNOPSIS
My focus will be on our role as yo creo en colombia to help change the nonpropositive, destructive, self-demeaning dialogue that existed in Colombia pre-1999 and create a new way for Colombians to see ourselves and relate to our own people. I use the example of el festival del trueque, which we do in La Minga, to exemplify how when you change the context, create contagion around new ideas, and generate powerful experiences, people make better decisions, one of which is to trust their own.
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TITLE Changing the Mind of a Nation
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DAY 1
Wed. 15 Jan. D A I LY P R O G R A M
New Organizational Forms FORMAT Short presentations, workshops, and feedback sessions SCHEDULE 09.30
Arrival and Coffee
09.45
Day’s Welcome by host: Matteo Lucchetti (project visible)
10.00 Presentations each 30 min. followed by 15-min. discussion with
critical referent
10.00 – 10.45
1st Presentation
Henk Oosterling (rotterdam vakmanstad)
Critical referent: Rasmus Ugilt (aarhus university)
10.45 – 11.30
2nd Presentation
Dorothee Richter (oncurating) 11.30 – 11.45
Critical referent: Eva Visser (kenniscentrum creating 010)
Short Break
11.45 – 12.30
3rd Presentation
Georg Zoche (transnational republic)
Critical referent: Sue Bell Yank (social practice)
12.30 – 13.15
4th Presentation
Tine De Moor (institutions for collective xction) 13.15 – 14.00
Critical referent: Ethel Baraona (dpr-barcelona)
Lunch Break
14.00 – 14.15
Introduction to the afternoon session (host)
14.15 – 14.30
Setting the agenda (critical referents): listing questions generated by
presentations to be discussed
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14.30 – 15.45
Workshops
4 sessions, held at the same time at various locations around the neighborhood, each centered on one of the morning presentations
07 Neighbourhood Workshop 06 Meram 03 Boeren in Zicht 08 Nina’s Lunchroom
Each session would be facilitated by the Critical Referent from
the respective presentation, who’d prepare questions for the
feedback session afterwards, assisted by a reporter and a
member of the Freehouse group, who’d keep and write up a
record of the workshop
Reporters Ailbhe Murphy & Ciaran Smyth (vagabond reviews),
Elke Krasny (academy of fine arts vienna), Susanne Bosch (artist),
Carolina Rito (curator)
15.45 – 16.00
Short Break
16.00 – 17.30
General Feedback Session
(Moderated by host)
10-min. presentation of each workshop (questions for discussion by
critical referents) followed by 45-min. general discussion
17.30
Day’s Closure (host) followed by drinks and snacks
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Thu. 16 Jan. D A I LY P R O G R A M
New Economic Forms FORMAT Short presentations, workshops, and feedback sessions SCHEDULE 09.30
Arrival and Coffee
09.45
Day’s WelcomE by host: Michael Birchall (university of wolverhampton)
10.00 Presentations each 30 min. followed by 15-min. discussion with
critical referent
10.00 – 10.45
1st Presentation
Jaromil (naba, milan)
Critical referent: Enric Duran Girait (via Skype) & Raquel Benedicto
(in workshop) (cooperativa integral catalana) with Britt Jurgensen
(homebaked landtrust and co-operative bakery)
10.45 – 11.30
2nd Presentation
Pelin Tan (mardin artuklu university) 11.30 –11.45
Critical referent: Silvia Simoncelli (brera art academy)
Short Break
11.45 – 12.30
3rd Presentation
Eli Feghali & Rachel Plattus (new economics institute)
Critical referent: Christopher Robbins (ghana thinktank)
12.30 – 13.15
4th Presentation
Pedro Medina (yo creo en colombia) 13.15 – 14.00
Critical referent: Jan Jongert (superuse studios)
Lunch Break
14.00 – 14.15
Introduction to the afternoon session (host)
14.15 – 14.30
Setting the agenda (critical referents): listing questions
generated by presentations to be discussed
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14.30 – 15.45
Workshops
4 sessions, held at the same time at various locations around the neighborhood, each centered on one of the morning presentations
09 Snackbar Pretoria 04 Cafe Akdeniz 05 De Zuiderling 06 Meram
Each session would be facilitated by the Critical Referent from
the respective presentation, who’d prepare questions for the
feedback session afterwards, assisted by a reporter and a member of the
Freehouse group, who’d keep and write up a record of the workshop
Reporters Ailbhe Murphy & Ciaran Smyth (vagabond reviews),
Elke Krasny (academy of fine arts vienna), Susanne Bosch (artist),
Carolina Rito (curator)
15.45 – 16.00
Short Break
16.00 – 17.30
General Feedback Session
(Moderated by host)
10-min. presentation of each workshop (questions for discussion by
critical referents), followed by 45-min. general discussion
17.30
Day’s Closure (host) followed by drinks and snacks
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DAY 3
Fri. 17 Jan. D A I LY P R O G R A M
Re/Forming the Future (of Afrikaanderwijk) FORMAT Deliberations
The aim of the last day is to bring a range of different voices and interests to the debate on “the future of self-organization of neighborhoods” through deliberations where people can present their ideas, hear the ideas of others, and change their views on the topic. The day is structured as a series of mediated discussions organized around a number of tables (two Dutch spoken and translated), where participants would share views, listen to one another, and challenge the views presented. Each table would discuss the same questions and after each set of questions, share the ideas that have come up at each table with the others. The process will be facilitated by a moderator and a reporter, assisted by a member of the Freehouse group, and a record of the conversations will be kept and written up. Moderators Ailbhe Murphy & Ciaran Smyth (vagabond reviews), Carolina Rito (curator),
Elke Krasny (academy of fine arts vienna), Susanne Bosch (artist), Marcel Jongmans (enthousiasmeur) Reporters Anastasia Kubrak (designer), Jaime Iglehart (artist), Jeannette Petrik (researcher, writer & designer), Lizzie MacWillie (graduate school of design), Tamar Shafrir (designer), Sikko Cleveringa (cal-xl) SCHEDULE 9.30
Arrival and coffee
9.45
Day’s Welcome by host: Arie Lengkeek (air foundation): conversation
with Jeanne van Heeswijk Introduction to the Deliberations: of the Afrikaanderwijk Cooperative Intentions of the Afrikaanderwijk Cooperative Exchange and expectations
10.00
1st Deliberation: New Organizational Forms
10.00 – 10.15
Opening Statement Roel In ‘t Veld (professor of governance &
sustainability) addressing questions coming out of Day 1
10.15 – 11.00
Table Discussions Cooperation as organizational form:
How to maintain common ground
How to actively enhance skills of cooperation
How to connect the lived world of the coop with “systems-world” beyond
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11.00 – 11.15
Tea and Coffee
11.30 11.30 – 11.45
2nd Deliberation: New Economic Forms Opening Statement Rachel Plattus & Eli Feghali addressing questions coming out of Day 2
11.45 – 12.30
Table Discussions Cooperation as economic form:
How to connect value-systems
How to expand into new domains (housing, insurance, etc.)
How to entice surplus value to be reinvested locally
12.30 – 12.45
Summary statements from each moderator on 3 key points
12.45
Short Break
13.00
3rd Deliberation: Re/Forming the Future
(of Afrikaanderwijk)
13.00 – 13.15
Opening Statement Aetzel Griffioen (rotterdam vakmanstad)
Addressing the future of the Afrikaander district
13.15 – 14.00
Table Discussions the emergence of the future Afrikaanderwijk?
What did you sense in the Afrikaanderwijk?
What benefit can the Afrikaanderwijk have from your experience and insights?
How can the future practice of Afrikaanderwijk be connected to your future
14.00 – 14.15 14.15 – 15.00
practice elsewhere in Rotterdam/The World? Summary statements from each moderator on 3 key points
Lunch Break
15.00
Closing Statement & Ceremonial Handover to the
Afrikaanderwijk coop
Around 15.00 hour other guests will start gathering to take part in the Closing and Handover, leading into an Official Reception/Closing Party of Freehouse. As part of the event, during the breaks and at the end, parts of the interior will be taken apart and distributed throughout the neighborhood. So, the third day would be in an almost empty room, with the last elements leaving the building…
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Aetzel Griffioen
in collaboration with Fatima Groups
( R otterdam Vakmanstad )
United, Rialto. The sliabh bán Art House
Aetzel Griffioen attained his MA degree
(2011 – 2012) a participatory public
in political philosophy at the Erasmus
art project commissioned by Galway
University Rotterdam (cum laude). He has
City Council’s Arts Office and city (re)
a special interest in ecosophy, operaism,
searches experiences of being public ,
the common and occasionalism and
an interdisciplinary research initiative
published in volume, de helling and
produced by Blue Drum, Community
with Sjoerd van Tuinen in krisis and the
Arts Partnership Belfast and the
algemeen nederlands tijdschrift voor
Kaunas Biennial.
wijsbegeerte . Working
for Rotterdam
Vakmanstad / Skillcity he integrates eco-
Anastasia Kubrak
social methods in four neighbourhoods
( designer )
in the south of Rotterdam. Currently he is
Anastasia Kubrak is a young communi-
co-editing the book wat heet lichamelijke
cation designer. Her work addresses
opvoeding ?
political and social causes in the age of
Ecosociale educatie op de
brede school with Henk Oosterling.
information; maximalist enough, she believes that design is “a weapon for
Ailbhe Murphy & Ciaran Smyth
social change”. She designs urban and
( Vagabond R e v iews )
digital interactions, so that her projects
Co-founded in 2007 by artist Ailbhe
found their viewers in Natlab, former
Murphy and independent researcher
Philips Laboratories, Van Abbemuseum
Ciaran Smyth, vagabond reviews is an
in Eindhoven, and many more.
interdisciplinary platform combining
Within recent collaborations such as
socially engaged art and research
“The Other Market”, which aims for the
practice. Most recently Vagabond Reviews
exchange of goods for the dialogue,
were commissioned as part of the
Anastasia started a series of live events,
National Women’s Council of Ireland’s
embracing various graphic media in order
Legacy Project, curated by Valerie Connor.
to illuminate and visualize the real time
In October ‘Still, We Work’ was exhibited
discussions. In this sense, illustration
at the Gallery of Photography and was
becomes an interactive experience, which
presented at 126 Gallery, Galway as
role is a graphical translation of ideas and
part of the Tulca Visual Arts Festival in
mapping the complexity of information.
November 2013. Other projects include
Born in Moscow, Russia, she is currently
the cultural archaeology (2009 – 2010), a
studying in Design Academy Eindhoven,
community-based arts research initiative
Man & Communication department.
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housing and spaces to meet, to chat
the official school magazine, a student
and to celebrate. At the heart of this
platform for design criticism.
endeavor is the principle of creating value, social and monetary, which stays within
Arie Lengkeek
the neighbourhood and is invested into
( A ir F oundation )
its communities.
Arie Lengkeek is editor and programmemaker at AIR, Rotterdam centre for
Carolina Rito
Architecture. His background as urban
(curator )
planner helps him to focus on the values,
Carolina Rito is a curator, writer and
actors and processes which contribute
researcher, born in Portugal and
to the built environment and its qualities.
currently living in London. Since 2011
Facilitating emerging practices in the
she is a graduate student of the PhD in
production of the city is his key interest,
Curatorial/Knowledge, at Goldsmiths
reflected in programmes like Van der
College, London, UK, supervised by Irit
Leeuwkring and PLUG Rotterdam, which
Rogoff. Currently she is also developing
are learning environments connecting a
the project disdisdis in collaboration with
wide diversity of agents.
the artist Luisa Ungar. Previously she has lectured in the MA and BA programmes
Britt Jurgensen
in Portugal. In 2013 she was Curator in
( H ome B aked C ommunity L andtrust and
Residency in UNIDEE – Cittadellarte, in
C o - operati v e B akery )
Fondazione Pistoletto, Italy. In 2010/2011
Britt Jurgensen is a German theatre/
she was curator-researcher at a curatorial
performance artist and community
residency in CuratorLab at Konstfack
activist currently based in North Liverpool
in Stockholm, and worked as assistant
where she is a member and co-producer
curator for the Arts and Architecture
of Homebaked. Homebaked is a
Programme of Guimaraes European
Community Land Trust and Co-operative
Capital of Culture. In 2009 she was a
Bakery located on the high street, just
visiting curator at Situations (dir. Claire
a few steps from the famous Liverpool
Doherty), Bristol, UK. Her curatorial
Football Club. In a neighbourhood
projects include, in 2013 The Compromise,
that has severely suffered from stalled
co-curated with Jeanne Van Heeswijk,
regeneration programmes it proposes a
in 2012 the exhibition BES Revelação
scheme of community-led development
in Serralves Museum, Porto, and in
of parts of the high street, providing
2008 the process-based project at
workspace for social enterprise, affordable
Botanical Garden, supported by the Gulbenkian Foundation.
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There she is also a writer and editor of
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Christopher Robbins
Dorothee Richter
(G hana T hinktank )
( Z urich U ni v ersity of the A rts )
Christopher Robbins works on the uneasy
Dr. Dorothee Richter, is head of the
cusp of public art and international
Postgraduate Programme in Curating
development, creating sculptural interven-
(MAS/CAS) at the University of the
tions in the daily lives of strangers. He built
Arts Zurich (ZHdK).
his own hut out of mud and sticks and
She also co-founded with Susanne
lived in it while serving as a Peace Corps
Clausen the “Research Platform for
Volunteer in Benin, West Africa, spoke at
Curatorial and Cross-disciplinary Cultural
a United Nations conference about his
Studies, Practice-Based Doctoral
cross-cultural digital arts and education
Programme” a cooperation of the
work in the South Pacific, and has lived
Postgraduate Programme in Curating
and worked in London, Tokyo, West Africa,
and the Department of Fine Arts,
the Fiji Islands, and former Yugoslavia.
University of Reading. She initiated the
He has exhibited at the Venice Biennial of
Curating Degree Zero Archive together
Architecture, ZKM | Museum of Contem-
with Barnaby Drabble.
porary Art, New Museum Festival of Ideas,
She curated and programmed different
Trade School at the Whitney Museum,
exhibition series like Feldforschung
the National Museum of Wales, Nikolaj
Hausfrauenkunst, female qualities, exile
Kunsthallen/Copenhagen Contemporary
and mainstream.
Art Center, and been awarded residencies
From 1999 to the end of 2003, Richter
or fellowships from Skowhegan,
was artistic director of the Künstlerhaus
MacDowell Colony, Haystack, Penland and
Bremen where she curated a discursive
Anderson Ranch, among others.
programme based on feminist issues,
The Ghana ThinkTank, which he co-
urban situations, power relation issues,
founded in 2006, is a global network of
and institutional critique.
think tanks from the “developing” world,
Since 1998, Richter has held lecturing
whose premise is to “Develop the First
posts at the University of Bremen, the
World.” They collect problems in the
Merzakademie Stuttgart, the École des
U.S. and Europe, and send them to think
Beaux Arts in Geneva, and the Universität
tanks they established in Cuba, Ghana,
Lüneburg. Most recent publication is
Palestine, Iran, Mexico and El Salvador to
“Fluxus. Kunst gleich Leben? Mythen um
analyze and solve. They then work with
Autorschaft, Produktion, Geschlecht und
the communities where the problems
Gemeinschaft” (Fluxus, art is life? Myths
originated to implement those solutions –
around authorship, production, gender
whether they seem impractical or brilliant.
and community”) and the new Internet
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Rachel Plattus is Director of Organizing
current approaches to critical curatorial
(Youth and Student Network) at the New
practice. She curated for example a Fluxus
Economy Coalition. She coordinates
Festival and exhibition with Adrian Notz at
NEC’s youth and student organizing
Cabaret Voltaire and other series like New
programs and works to build broad
Social Sculptures at Kunstmuseum Thun
community, movement and organizational
with the PP in Curating.
engagement in the New Economy.
In 2013 she published a film together
Rachel is active in climate justice work as
with Ronald Kolb: „Flux Us Now! Fluxus
a member of a Boston-based organizing
explored with a camera.“ Which was
collective, Simorgh. She hopes to support
screened at Staatsgalerie Stuttgart in April
communities in embracing and protecting
2013 and in October 2013 at the Migros
what is left of our planet and in building
Musem fuer Gegenwartskunst in Zürich.
resilience in the face of environmental and
In September 2013 she was appointed as
economic transformation. Someday she
mentor for POOL, Zürich.
would like to be a heron or a whale. Rachel lives in Boston, MA.
Eli Feghali & Rachel Plattus ( N ew E conomy C oalition )
Elke Krasny
Eli Feghali is the Director of
( A cademy of F ine A rts Vienna )
Communications and Online Organizing
Elke Krasny is Senior Lecturer at the
for the New Economy Coalition. He is
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She was
a Lebanese-American who has spent
Guest Professor at the University of
the majority of his professional life
Bremen in 2006, at the Academy of
as a communications specialist and
Fine Arts Nuremberg in 2013, and at the
community organizer focused on issues
Vienna University of Technology in 2014.
of economic and social justice. At NEC,
In 2012 she was Visiting Scholar at the
Eli works to create and promote effective
CCA, Canadian Centre for Architecture,
narratives about the movement to build
in Montréal. Her work as a curator, critic,
a New Economy that prioritizes people,
cultural theorist and urban researcher
place, and the planet. Outside of his day
clearly shows her interest in urban
job, Eli is active in a climate justice affinity
transformation processes, the critical
group and in local efforts to grow the
history of architecture, the politics of
cooperative sector in Boston. When not
history, and the historiography of feminist
eating vegan food or watching the Celtics,
curatorial practices. The edited book on
Eli can be found on Twitter (@efeghali).
the history of self-organization hands-on urbanism 1850 – 2012. the right to green
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appeared in 2012 and her exhibition
so she also work with different education
by the same name was shown at the
projects. She’s out of the system, cannot
Architecture Centre Vienna, the Museum
have a job or a bank account and she’s
for Contemporary Art Leipzig and included
happy with it, because long time ago, she
in the Venice Biennale of Architecture
decided to be a human in the earth.
in 2012. She co-edited the 2013 volume women ’ s : museum . curatorial politics in
Ethel Baraona Pohl
feminism ,
( D P R-B arcelona )
Education, History, and Art.
Ethel Baraona Pohl is a writer, publisher Enric Duran Girait &
and curator; her [net]work is a real hub
Raquel Benedicto
linking several publications and actors
(C ooperati va I ntegral C atalana )
on architecture and theory. Co-founder
Enric Duran Giralt If in the year 2008,
of the independent publishing house
he was known for the expropriation of
dpr-barcelona, and editor at quaderns
€492,000 from 39 banks to be allocated
d ’ arquitectura i urbanisme . She’s
to social change initiatives, today he is
contributing editor for different blogs
known for having promoted the Catalan
and magazines, and has written articles
Integrated Cooperative, which has
for domus, volume, the new city reader
become after three years a living example
[Istanbul edition] and mas context among
for an alternative construction of society,
others. She has been invited to present
bringing together thousands of people
her work in events like postópolis! df,
and hundreds of cooperative projects.
and the international architecture festival
Raquel Benedicto Working since
first commissioned for the Istanbul
2010 in Cooperativa Integral Catalana
Design Biennial in 2012 and exhibited at
(CIC). She’s working in different work
The New Museum, NYC [May 2013] and
commissions in CIC in the areas of
Lime Wharf, London [Summer 2013].
economic, welcoming and productive
Curator, with César Reyes Nájera, of the
projects. She also work in the replication
third Think Space programme with the
of the tools that CIC has create for the
theme ‘Money’.
eme 3. Associate
also
Curator for “Adhocracy”,
communal good, in the rest of Catalonia, explaining people how this tools work and
Eva Visser
forming them, and how this can help them
( kenniscentrum creating 010)
to change his dependence of the state.
Social Historian Eva Visser works for as a
Mother of a son, don’t believe capitalism
researcher and tutor for Kenniscentrum
would give her little baby a real solution,
Creating 010 (Rotterdam University).
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In 2006, Zoche was invited to present
Cultural Diversity and on new economic
at the international forum on the social
models for young artists and designers.
science
Together with Levien Nordeman she wrote
globalisation and democracy) and
the article ‘The limitations and possibilities
to contribute to “The Buenos Aires
of co-creation in the public domain of
Declaration”. In 2007, Zoche was speaker
Rotterdam’ for the CATaC ‘12 conference
at the unesco monterrey forum, where he
in Aarhus, in which Freehouse was used as
co-authored “The Monterrey Manifesto”
a case study.
and was selected as winner in the global
(the first UNESCO summit on
governance essay contest .
Georg Zoche
In 2009, Zoche’s first book about the
( T ransnational R epublic )
(geo)political power of currencies was
Georg Zoche was born in Munich, where
published (welt macht geld, münchen:
he studied engineering and philosophy
blumenbar ).
and was working as exotica DJ. In 1992, his work on lightweight diesel
Henk Oosterling
engines for aircraft received a research
( R otterdam Vakmanstad )
award. Since 1995, the Zoche aero-diesel
Dr. Henk A.F. Oosterling is associate
is on permanent display in the Deutsche
professor at the Dept. of Philosophy of
Museum. Zoche holds patents on internal
the Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
combustion engines, electro motors and
where he teaches philosophy of
reverse vending systems.
difference, dialectics, and philosophy of
Since 1996, Zoche is researching the
art since 1985. His academic research
topic of a more participatory globalisation
focuses on intermedial art, design,
process. To this end he co-founded in
and interculturality. He published and
2001 the grassroots movement The
edited dozens of books and received the
United Transnational Republics, which has
Erasmus Research Award (1996).
been joined by more than 6,000 citizens
In 2004 Oosterling initiated and since
from over 100 nation states. The United
2007 directs a long-term educational
Transnational Republics participated at
urban renovation programme called
well over 60 international conferences,
Rotterdam Skillcity, based on the
exhibitions, seminars, workshops in the
philosophical insights of Foucault,
fields of politics, activism and art (Torino
Deleuze/Guattari and Arendt. This
Biennial, Venice Biennial, attac summer
emancipatory project connects groups on
academy, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Münchner
a neighbourhood level, and educationally
Kammerspiele, Palais de Tokyo Paris etc.).
aims at eco-literacy, reintroducing a 21st
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Her work includes research in the field of
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century craftsmanship in the school
in the behaviour of flows in interior,
curricula, He was awarded for this with
industrial and urban environment. His
the Rotterdam Laurens Coin (2008) and
key projects are Villa Welpeloo (2009),
the national Van Praag Reward (2013).
Recyclicity MSP (2010) and various
His most recent book on this discursive
open source web-platforms (Superuse.
practice is ECO3: Reflection (2013).
org, Cyclifier.org and Harvestmap.org). Jan Jongert currently holds the position
Jaime Iglehart
of Lector at the Royal Academy of Art in
( artist )
The Hague.
Jaime Iglehart is a multimedia artist exploring questions of freedom, authority,
Jaromil/Denis Roio
and human social interaction within the
( N A B A , M ilan )
context of autonomous collectivism.
Denis Roio, better known as Jaromil, is a
Past projects have taken the form of
developer, activist and artist of the Dyne.
installation, performance, photography,
org network. Since the year 2000 his
textile, pedagogy, curating, and most
works have focused on computer viruses,
recently, open source mapping.
piracy, freedom of speech, privacy and
Jaime is the vice-president of the
independent media practices. Jaromil’s
New Age Beverages corporation.
software creations are recommended by the Free Software Foundation and
Jan Jongert
redistributed in several GNU/Linux
( S uperuse S tudios )
systems worldwide, while he is also
Jan Jongert studied in Delft and
an active contributor to media theory
graduated as Architect at the Academy
discourses. In 2009 he was the receipt
of Architecture Rotterdam in 2003.
of the VilĂŠm Flusser Award, now
As cofounder of Superuse Studios
completing his Ph.D. on digital economies,
in Rotterdam (formerly known as
also focusing on cryptographic systems
2012Architecten) he designs interiors
such as Bitcoin.
and buildings and develops strategies to facilitate the transition to a sustainable
Jeannette Petrik
society. He focuses at developing tools
( researcher , writer & designer )
and processes and realises projects that
Jeannette Petrik is a researcher, writer and
empower local exchange and production,
designer currently based in Rotterdam.
as an alternative to transporting our
Her practice revolves around the creation
resources, products and components
of opportunities for public empowerment
around the globe. Jan Jongert specialised
and skill sharing. She considers the design
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work for or the neighbourhood they
a tool for everyday political engagement.
live in via trainings, lectures and bringing
At the core of her practice lies the
possibilities together.
in-depth, contextual analysis of the subjective dynamics inherent in social
Matteo Lucchetti
arrangements and material cultures,
( P roject Visible )
which allows her to facilitate the creation
Matteo Lucchetti is an independent
of events of doubt in dialogue with her
curator, and art historian. He holds
surrounding environment.
an MA in Visual Arts and Curatorial
Jeannette has studied Product Design
Studies with a thesis entitled Enacting
at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma
a Community, about the relationship
de Mexico and has pursued a bachelor
between collaborative artistic practices
degree at Central Saint Martins School of
and the idea of community. He has been
Art and Design in London before taking
curator in residence at AIR – Artist in
up a master degree in Contextual Design
residence, Antwerp, Kadist Art Foundation,
at the Design Academy Eindoven, in the
Paris, and Para Site, Hong Kong.
context of which she created a body of
His main curatorial projects include:
research around the notion of Extremism
don ’ t embarrass the bureau !
within the Everyday. Currently, she is
Konsthalle, Lund, 2014); legally. Anna
working as a freelance and independent
Scalfi Eghenter (Biennale di Democrazia,
researcher, designer and writer.
Turin, 2013); enacting populism in its mediascape
(Lunds
(Kadist Art Foundation,
Marcel Jongmans
Paris 2011 – 2012); practicing memory
( E nthousiasmeur )
(Cittadellarte, Biella, 2010). He is co-
Enthousiasmeur in the first place.
curator of visible (Pistoletto Foundation/
He thinks in terms of opportunities
Fondazione Zegna), a biennial production
and focuses on small initiatives with
award and research project on socially
a big impact and the power of
engaged artistic practices in a global
cooperation. Marcel Jongmans works
context. Lucchetti lectures regularly at the
independently but also functions as a
Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam and is a
communications consultant employed
visiting lecturer at the Brera Art Academy,
by the municipality of Rotterdam,
Milan and at St Lucas University College of
a liaison between the municipality
Art, Antwerp. He has written for Manifesta
and Rotterdam neighbourhoods.
blog, Art-Agenda, This is Tomorrow,
Makes people enthusiastic about
and Mousse, among others, and he has
themselves, the organisation they
edited the monograph “Michelangelo
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Darden School of the University of
Lucchetti lives and works in Brussels.
Virginia. He worked in Mobil Polymers
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International, Propilco, a licensee of Union Michael Birchall
Carbide and Shell, Sofasa, the Toyota
( U ni v ersity of W olv erhampton )
and Renault assembly plant in Colombia,
Michael G. Birchall is a curator, writer
and brought McDonald´s into Colombia.
and PhD candidate with an interest
He led the company as its General
in collaborative and participatory art
Manager for 7 years. While at McDonald´s,
practices. He has curated exhibitions
Medina founded and led a state of the
and projects including ‘Wie geht’s dir
art program called “I believe in Colombia”.
Stuttgart/How are you doing Stuttgart?’
The business magazine Dinero chose
and ‘Hier und Jetzt’ – at Künstlerhaus
him as one of the 20 most valuable
Stuttgart. He has attended residencies
businessmen in Colombia.
at The Western Front, Vancouver,
The program, now a non-profit foundation,
Canada, and at The Banff Centre for
has touched 680,000 persons in 159
the Arts, Banff, Canada. His writing
cities and 29 countries, and has extended
has appeared in Frieze, Frieze d/e,
into I believe in Latin America. He has
ThisIsTomorrow and C-Magazine.
been a Professor of business strategy,
Michael is currently a PhD candidate in
leadership and innovation in 4 universities
Art, Critique and Social Practice at the
for 18 years. A columnist in 12 newspapers
University of Wolverhampton (UK)
and magazines, Medina wrote his first
where he is undertaking research into
book – Puentes, Redes y Trampolines and
the role of the curator as a producer in
has collaborated on three others. He holds
social and participatory-based art.
a BA degree in Economics, History and
He is a co-publisher of the journal
International Relations from the University
oncurating
and a lecturer on the
of Virginia, an MBA from the Darden
postgraduate program in Curating at
School and a Bachelor in Hamburgerology
the Zurich University of the Arts.
from Hamburger University in Chicago.
Pedro Medina
Pelin Tan
( Y o C reo en C olombia )
( M ardin A rtuklu U ni v ersity )
Pedro Medina is a professor, a catalyst,
As a sociologist, art historian she
a mentor and a social entrepreneur.
completed her PhD. on socially engaged
He is a Fellow at the Weatherhead Center
art practices in urban space, and her
for International Affairs at Harvard
postdoc on artistic research at Art, Culture
University and a Batten Fellow at the
and Technology program at MIT (2011).
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master of law in 1964 and was appointed
videos on the future of institutions (with
as a junior-lecturer at the law faculty of
A.Vidokle). Tan was a research fellow
Leiden University. In 1969 he entered
of The Japan Foundation where she
the university administration where
conducted a research on artist run spaces.
he became personal assistant to the
Currently, she is assistant professor and
university president. In 1975 he became
vice-dean of the Architecture Faculty of
doctor after completion of a dissertation
Mardin Artuklu University.
on theoretical foundations of collective decision-making.
Rasmus UgILt
In 1977 In ‘t Veld became full professor
( A arhus U ni v ersity )
of political science at the University of
Rasmus Ugilt is assistant professor
Nijmegen. During the years 1979 – 1982
at the Department of Culture and
he also was an advisor to the Minister for
Society, Aarhus University. He teaches
Science Policy. From 1982 to 1988 he was
history of philosophy, metaphysics and
appointed as the Director-General for
contemporary continental philosophy.
Higher Education and Scientific Research.
His current research project aims to
For six years he was the Vice-Chairman of
produce a philosophical analysis of the
the OECD-Education Committee, and for
current global juridico-political situation
two decades a chairman and a member of
focussing on the consequences of the
the High Council and the Research Council
global war on terror. Recent publications
of the European University Institute at
include the metaphysics of terror,
Florence.
Bloomsbury, 2012, “Evil as an Aesthetic
In ‘t Veld chaired the committee that
Concept”, academic quarter, 2012, “The
prepared the strategic study Beyond
Nazi-Card-Card”, the journal of slavoj
Maintenance, and also participated in later
zizek studies , 2012, and we just talk !
strategic studies. He was a full professor
–
reflections on economy and public life ,
of government at Erasmus University
w. Jeanne van Heeswijk, Taschenspiel
Rotterdam from 1988 to 1998, and at
Press, 2013.
Leiden University from 1990 to 1998. In 1993 he served as Secretary of State for
Roel In ‘t Veld
Higher Education. For the next decade,
(professor governance & sustainability)
In ‘t Veld held various professorships at a
Prof. dr. Roeland Jaap in ‘t Veld was
number of universities: 1994 – 2006 at
born in the middle of the Second World
University of Amsterdam in organisational
War and studied law and economics in
science; 1995 – 2004 at Utrecht
Leiden and Rotterdam. He became a
University in public administration; and
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She co-directed “2084, episode I – III”
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2002 – 2004 at The European University
Sikko Cleveringa
Institute in Florence.
(Cal-XL)
In ‘t Veld has been Dean of the (Graduate)
Sikko Cleveringa is Director of CAL-XL,
Netherlands School of Government,
the Dutch organization for community
and rector of Sioo. He held till 2013 two
arts and new cultural functions. He
professorial chairs in the domains of
leads a team of national experts working
management and governance at the Open
on networking, training, research,
University Netherlands and the University
documentation and advocacy and is
of the Dutch Antilles, and has accepted
itself active in these areas as a senior
in 2010 an appointment as Professor
advisor. In the period 2001 – 2010 he
of Governance and Sustainability at the
was ‘Cultural broker’ of the Municipality
University of Tilburg. During 2010 – 11
of Deventer. He is one of the pioneers
he was as a visiting fellow at the IASS,
in the Netherlands of developing and
Institute for Advanced Sustainability
supporting community arts and related
Studies in Potsdam, Germany.
forms of artistic interventions in social
In ‘t Veld serves in advisory positions for
development. In the period 1990 – 2000
several ministers; and has held positions
he worked in Tanzania, Rwanda and
as an advisor for the World Bank, for
Burkina Faso as a development expert
OECD, for EC and for the Council of
with specialties as land use planning,
Europe. From 1996 till 2010 he was
micro credit and in Burkina Faso
chairman of the National Council for
regional radio and event management.
Spatial and Environmental Research.
In the late eighties he graduated in rural
During the decade 2000 – 2010 he has
development at Larenstein (now part of
been chairman of the Board of Directors
Wageningen University). Sikko Cleveringa
of the Netherlands Railways infra-provider
is the author of several publications
PRORAIL. He held several positions as a
and articles on community arts and
member of the Board of Directors at IBM
appears regularly as a guest speaker at
Netherlands, HSK and Berenschot.
symposia. He developed a project scan
Professor In ‘t Veld has published
for community arts and wrote a guideline
several books on Planning Theory,
on ‘Culture New Style “(2012). Sikko is a
Structuring Higher Education, Theoretical
board member of the Foundations One
Foundations of Steering Theory and
World Jam (Music) and La Benevolencia
recently Knowledge Democracy and
(Radio). Community Arts Lab XL (CAL-XL),
Sustainability. He has recently published
is the Dutch organization for community
Transgovernance, The Quest for the
arts and new cultural functions. Our work
Governance of Sustainable Development.
is about cultural entrepreneurship and
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civic engagement. Important themes
who is afraid of the public , symposium,
ICI, London, 2013; performing structures,
legitimacy, sustainable programs in
exhibition, Wascherei, Kunstverein Zurich,
stead of incidental projects, vital
2012; Deimantas narkevicius, revisiting
coalitions and culture producing citizens.
utopia , special
CAL-XL is a platform and catalyst for new
Film Festival, 2011. In 2014 she will curate
connections between artistic and social
a series of artistic interventions within
sectors, between theory and practice.
the frame of Dencity, an interdisciplinary
Spearheads are networking, training,
cultural project in the suburban area of
research, documentation and advocacy.
Giambellino, in Milan.
program, Winterthur Short
We build partnerships and acquire grants for the development of new products
Sue Bell Yank
and services. The implementation is
(Social Practice)
basically on the basis of contracts and the
Sue Bell Yank is a writer, producer, and
contribution of participants.
arts organizer. She currently works as an online education producer for the Oprah
Silvia Simoncelli
Winfrey Network and was formerly the
(Brera Art Academy)
Associate Director of Academic Programs
Silvia Simoncelli is an art historian and
at the Hammer Museum. She graduated
independent curator based in Milan
from the Masters of Public Art Studies
and Zurich. She is professor at Brera
program at USC, focusing on the role of
Art Academy and course leader of the
contemporary art in rebuilding efforts
Advanced Course in Contemporary Art
after a crisis, focusing on post-Katrina
Markets, NABA in Milan. She lectures
New Orleans. She has worked with artist
regularly for the Postgraduate Programme
Edgar Arceneaux as a co-founder and
in Curating at ZHdK, Zurich and she is co-
Assistant Director for the Watts House
publisher of the web journal oncurating.
Project, and has a deep-seated investment
Her research interests comprise the
in socially and politically-engaged art that
relation between art and economy,
can be traced to her years as a public
institutional critique and art in public
school teacher in Lynwood and South
space. She is currently editing an issue of
Fairfax. She is currently an advisor for the
oncurating
on the topic of the commons.
Asian Arts Initiative’s Social Practice Lab
Recent projects and participations
and the granting organization SPArt, was
include: artists and rights in contemporary
a curatorial advisor for the Creative Time
art , symposium, Artissima, Turin; visions
Living as Form exhibition (2011), and was
of labour , exhibition, Kunshalle
part of the curatorial team for the 2008
Sao Paulo;
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BIOGRAPHIES
California Biennial. Her writing has been
4th edition of Cities Exhibition, Bir
featured in exhibition catalogues, Journal
Zeit (2012/13), Citizen Art Days
of Aesthetics and Protest, the Huffington
Berlin (2012/13), Arte Útil Archiv,
Post, KCET Artbound, and various arts
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2013),
blogs including her ongoing essay blog
Click or Clash? Strategies of collaboration,
entitled Social Practice: Writings about
Galleria Bianconi, Milano (2013).
the social in contemporary art. She has
She is co-editor and editor, the most
been a lecturer at California College
recent books being STATE (2011) edited
of the Arts, Otis College of Art and Design,
collaboratively with the artist Anthony
UCLA, and USC.
Haughey, Dublin (published by Project Arts Centre Dublin) and Connections:
Susanne Bosch
Artists in communication (2012) edited
(artist)
collaboratively with the artist Andrea
Susanne Bosch is an artist and teaches.
Theis (published by Interface Research
From 2007 – 2012, she developed and led
Center Belfast).
the Art in Public master programme at the University of Ulster in Belfast together with
Tamar Shafrir
Dan Shipsides. She works predominantly
(designer)
in public and on long-term questions,
Tamar Shafrir is a writer and editor in
which tackle creative arguments around
the fields of design and architecture,
the ideas of democracy. Works include
based in Genoa, Italy. She received her
among other things issues around money,
bachelor’s degree in architectural design
migration, surviving, work, societal visions
at the University of Virginia and her
and participation models. She formally
master’s degree in contextual design
uses site – and situation – specific
at the Design Academy Eindhoven. Her
interventions, installations, video, drawing,
articles have been published in domus
audio, dialogic work, in addition formats
magazine, and she also works on editorial
such as writing, speaking, listening,
projects with designers, curators, and
workshops, seminars and Open Space
critics including Unfold, Jan Boelen,
conferences. She is a trained Open Space
and Louise Schouwenberg. She was the
facilitator (2008) and trained in conflict
catalogue editor for the first Istanbul
analysis and – management (2004).
Design Biennial and worked on the
Susanne works internationally on
adhocracy
exhibitions and projects in public space,
York, and London. In 2013, in partnership
e.g. she was involved with Jericho –
with Joseph Grima, she started Space
beyond the celestial and terrestrial,
Caviar, a practice for critique, curation,
exhibition in Istanbul, New
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and consultancy, beginning with
international journal of the commons .
neoasterisms , a
She is also a member of the both Dutch
collaborative rewriting of
and European Young Academey. Currently
in Lisbon, followed by An archaeology of
she is in charge of several large projects
rose island
for the 2013 Shenzhen Bi-City
on institutions for collective action and
Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture. She
related issues on which more information
has lectured at the Design Academy
can be found at www.collective-action.info.
Eindhoven, at What Design Can Do in Amsterdam, at the Politecnico di Milano,
ORGANIZERS
and at Premsela’s Milan Breakfasts during Pablo Calderon
the Salone del Mobile.
(social designer)
Tine De Moor
Pablo Calderón Salazar is an Industrial
(Institutions for Collective Action)
Designer (bachelor level) from the Jorge
Tine De Moor studied social and economic
Tadeo Lozano University of Bogotá,
history and environmental sciences at
Colombia (2008) and Social Designer
the universities of Ghent, Antwerp and
(Master in Design) from Design Academy
London and is professor “Institutions for
Eindhoven (June 2013). The essence of
collective action in historical perspective”
his practice lies in collaborating with local
at the department of history of Utrecht
partners in the different contexts where
University. Her research focuses on both
his projects take place. He empathically
historical (modern and early modern)
interprets the interests of different
and present-day forms of self-governing
constituents, using dialogue as his main
institutions, in which citizens are
tool. Giving great attention to the political,
cooperating towards collective economic
economical, social and cultural conditions
or social goals, such as commons, guilds,
under which his projects take place, he
cooperatives and present-day civil
produces texts, installations, graphics,
collectivities. Her research combines
videos, interven-tions and events that
extensive empirical research and analysis
provoke reflection around relevant
with modelling and a strongly theoretical
issues in society; but this critical stance
framework and has been published in
is always accompanied by a propositive
several books and high-ranking journals.
one, which tries to hint into better ways
She is an executive board member of
of living together. His master graduation
the international association for the
project was called the other market,
study of the commons , for
a platform, materialized in a series of
which she also
founded the peer-reviewed open-access
pushcarts and stalls, to trade products
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and services without money, using
societies? This is the question that artist
dialogue as a currency.
Jeanne van Heeswijk, of the Netherlands,
BIOGRAPHIES
considers when deciding how to employ Ashraf Osman
her work to improve communities. Van
(Artinect)
Heeswijk believes communities need
Ashraf Osman is an architect, curator,
to co-produce their own futures. That’s
and consultant on public art, olfactory
why she embeds herself, for years at a
art, and social media for the arts. Born
time, in communities from Rotterdam to
in Beirut, Lebanon, he completed his
Liverpool, working with them to improve
Master of Architecture at Syracuse
their neighbourhoods and empowering
University in New York, where he received
them to design their own futures – not
the James Britton Memorial Award
wait for local authorities to foist upon
for Outstanding Thesis for his thesis,
them urban planning schemes which
“memory for forgetfulness”: registering/
rarely take embedded culture into
effacing the memory of the lebanese war .
account. Her work often attempts to
Ashraf has over 10 years of experience
unravel invisible legislation, governmental
as an architect in Princeton, NJ and
codes, and social institutions, gradually
Philadelphia, PA where he also taught
preparing areas for their predictive
Interdisciplinary Design Foundations for
futures. She calls it “radicalising the local”
2 years at Philadelphia University. He is a
by empowering communities to become
Registered Architect both in the US and
their own antidote.
Lebanon. Ashraf has recently founded
Van Heeswijk’s work has been featured
ARTINECT, a consultancy for connecting
in numerous books and publications
art both physically – by providing artwork
worldwide, as well as internationally
for architectural spaces – and virtually
renowned biennials such as those of
– by managing the web presence of
Liverpool, Busan, Taipei, Shanghai
art entities. He is currently completing
and Venice. She has received a host of
his Master of Advanced Studies at the
accolades and recognitions for her work,
Postgraduate Programme in Curating at
including most recently the 2012 Curry
Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK).
Stone Prize for Social Design Pioneers and the 2011 Leonore Annenberg Prize for Art
Jeanne van Heeswijk
and Social Change.
(artist , initiator of Freehouse)
How can an artist be an instrument for the collective reimagining of daily environments, given the complexity of our
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ORGANIZERS Ashraf Osman (artinect), Jeanne van Heeswijk (artist), Pablo Calderon (social CO-ORGANIZERS Ali Osman Safac (concept developer), Annet van Otterloo (historian), Mariska Vogel (artist), RamĂłn Mosterd (art & media manager) GRAPHIC DESIGN Janneke Absil (designer), Minke Themans (designer), Peter Zuiderwijk (designer) CATERING Wijkkeuken van Zuid FINANCIERS Mondriaan Fund, Creative Industries Fund NL, Stadsontwikkeling Gemeente Rotterdam, Stichting DOEN CONTENT PARTNER AIR designer )
FREEHOUSE radicalizing THE local
HOSTS / SPEAKERS / MODERATORS / CRITICAL REFERENTS / REPORTERS Aetzel Griffioen (rotterdam vakmanstad), Ailbhe Murphy & Ciaran Smyth (vagabond reviews), Anastasia Kubrak (designer), Arie Lengkeek (air foundation), Britt Jurgensen (homebaked community landtrust and co - operative bakery ), Carolina Rito ( curator ), Christopher Robbins ( ghana thinktank ), Dorothee Richter (zurich university of the arts), Eli Feghali & Rachel Plattus (new economy coalition), Elke Krasny (academy of fine arts vienna), Enric Duran Girait & Raquel Benedicto (cooperativa integral catalana ), Ethel Baraona Pohl ( dpr - barcelona ), Eva Visser ( kenniscentrum creating 010), Georg Zoche (transnational republic), Henk Oosterling (rotterdam vakmanstad), Jaime Iglehart (artist), Jan Jongert (superuse studios), Jaromil/Denis Roio (naba, milan), Jeannette Petrik (researcher, writer & designer ), Marcel Jongmans ( enthousiasmeur ), Matteo Lucchetti ( project visible ), Michael Birchall (university of wolverhampton), Pedro Medina (yo creo en colombia), Pelin Tan (mardin artuklu university ), Rasmus Ugilt ( aarhus university ), Roel In ‘t Veld ( professor governance & sustainability ), Sikko Cleveringa (cal-xl), Silvia Simoncelli (brera art academy), Sue Bell Yank (social practice), Susanne Bosch (artist), Tamar Shafrir (designer), Tine De Moor (institutions for collective action)
