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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 CRITICAL REFERENT 2 TITLE

Pelin Tan (mardin artuklu university) Silvia Simoncelli (brera art academy) 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 CRITICAL REFERENT 3 TITLE

Eli Feghali & Rachel Plattus (new economy coalition) Christopher Robbins (ghana thinktank) 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.

SPEAKER 4 CRITICAL REFERENT 4 TITLE

Pedro Medina (yo creo en colombia) Jan Jongert (superuse studios) Changing the Mind of a Nation

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.

DAY 1 WED. 15 JAN.

NEW ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS

FORMAT Short presentations, workshops, and feedback sessions

SCHEDULE

09.30 09.45

10.00

10.00 – 10.45

10.45 – 11.30

11.30 – 11.45

11.45 – 12.30

12.30 – 13.15

13.15 – 14.00

14.00 – 14.15 14.15 – 14.30 ArrivAl And Coffee dAy’s WelCome by host: Matteo Lucchetti (project visible)

PRESENTATIONS each 30 min. followed by 15-min. discussion with critical referent

1ST PRESENTATION

Henk Oosterling (rotterdam vakmanstad) Critical referent: Rasmus Ugilt (aarhus university)

2ND PRESENTATION

Dorothee Richter (oncurating) Critical referent: Eva Visser (kenniscentrum creating 010)

short BreAk

3RD PRESENTATION

Georg zoche (transnational republic) Critical referent: Sue Bell Yank (social practice)

4TH PRESENTATION

Tine De Moor (institutions for collective xction) Critical referent: Ethel Baraona (dpr-barcelona)

lunCh BreAk

Introduction to the afternoon session (host) Setting the agenda (critical referents): listing questions generated by presentations to be discussed

14.30 – 15.45

15.45 – 16.00

16.00 – 17.30

17.30

07

06

03

08 WORKSHOPS

4 sessions, held at the same time at various locations around the neighborhood, each centered on one of the morning presentations Neighbourhood Workshop Meram

Boeren in zicht

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)

short BreAk

GENERAL FEEDBACK SESSION

(Moderated by host) 10-min. presentation of each workshop (questions for discussion by critical referents) followed by 45-min. general discussion

dAy’s Closure (host) followed by drinks and snacks

DAY 2 THU. 16 JAN.

NEW ECONOMIC FORMS

FORMAT Short presentations, workshops, and feedback sessions

SCHEDULE

09.30 09.45

10.00

10.00 – 10.45

10.45 – 11.30

11.30 –11.45

11.45 – 12.30

12.30 – 13.15

13.15 – 14.00

14.00 – 14.15 14.15 – 14.30 ArrivAl And Coffee dAy’s WelCome by host: Michael Birchall (university of wolverhampton)

PRESENTATIONS each 30 min. followed by 15-min. discussion with critical referent

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)

2ND PRESENTATION

Pelin Tan (mardin artuklu university) Critical referent: Silvia Simoncelli (brera art academy)

short BreAk

3RD PRESENTATION

Eli Feghali & Rachel Plattus (new economics institute) Critical referent: Christopher Robbins (ghana thinktank)

4TH PRESENTATION

Pedro Medina (yo creo en colombia) Critical referent: Jan Jongert (superuse studios)

lunCh BreAk

Introduction to the afternoon session (host) Setting the agenda (critical referents): listing questions generated by presentations to be discussed

14.30 – 15.45

15.45 – 16.00

16.00 – 17.30

17.30

09

04

05

06 WORKSHOPS

4 sessions, held at the same time at various locations around the neighborhood, each centered on one of the morning presentations Snackbar Pretoria Cafe Akdeniz

De zuiderling 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)

short BreAk

GENERAL FEEDBACK SESSION

(Moderated by host) 10-min. presentation of each workshop (questions for discussion by critical referents), followed by 45-min. general discussion

dAy’s Closure (host) followed by drinks and snacks

DAY 3 FRI. 17 JAN.

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 9.45

10.00

10.00 – 10.15

10.15 – 11.00 ArrivAl And Coffee 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

1ST DELIBERATION: NEW ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS

opening stAtement Roel In ‘t Veld (professor of governance & sustainability) addressing questions coming out of Day 1 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 (institutional diversity)

11.00 – 11.15 Summary statements from each moderator on 3 key points

11.15

11.30

11.30 – 11.45

11.45 – 12.30

12.30 – 12.45

12.45

13.00

13.00 – 13.15

13.15 – 14.00

14.00 – 14.15 teA And Coffee

2ND DELIBERATION: NEW ECONOMIC FORMS

opening stAtement Rachel Plattus & Eli Feghali addressing questions coming out of Day 2 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 Summary statements from each moderator on 3 key points

short BreAk

3RD DELIBERATION: RE/FORMING THE FUTURE (OF AFRIKAANDERWIJK)

opening stAtement Aetzel Griffioen (rotterdam vakmanstad) Addressing the future of the Afrikaander district 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 practice elsewhere in Rotterdam/The World? Summary statements from each moderator on 3 key points

14.15 – 15.00 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…

AETZEL GRIFFIOEN (ROTTERDAM vAKMANSTAD)

Aetzel Griffioen attained his MA degree in political philosophy at the Erasmus University Rotterdam (cum laude). He has a special interest in ecosophy, operaism, the common and occasionalism and

published in volume, de helling and with Sjoerd van Tuinen in krisis and the

algemeen nederlands tijdschrift voor

wijsbegeerte. Working for Rotterdam Vakmanstad / Skillcity he integrates ecosocial methods in four neighbourhoods in the south of Rotterdam. Currently he is co-editing the book wat heet lichamelijke opvoeding? Ecosociale educatie op de brede school with Henk Oosterling.

AILBHE MURPHY & CIARAN SMYTH (vAGABOND REvIEWS)

Co-founded in 2007 by artist Ailbhe Murphy and independent researcher Ciaran Smyth, vagabond reviews is an interdisciplinary platform combining socially engaged art and research practice. Most recently Vagabond Reviews were commissioned as part of the National Women’s Council of Ireland’s Legacy Project, curated by Valerie Connor. In October ‘Still, We Work’ was exhibited at the Gallery of Photography and was presented at 126 Gallery, Galway as part of the Tulca Visual Arts Festival in November 2013. Other projects include the cultural archaeology (2009 – 2010), a community-based arts research initiative in collaboration with Fatima Groups United, Rialto. The sliabh bán Art House (2011 – 2012) a participatory public art project commissioned by Galway City Council’s Arts Office and city (re)

searches experiences of being public, an interdisciplinary research initiative produced by Blue Drum, Community Arts Partnership Belfast and the Kaunas Biennial.

ANASTASIA KUBRAK (DESIGNER)

Anastasia Kubrak is a young communication designer. Her work addresses political and social causes in the age of information; maximalist enough, she believes that design is “a weapon for social change”. She designs urban and digital interactions, so that her projects found their viewers in Natlab, former Philips Laboratories, Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, and many more. Within recent collaborations such as “The Other Market”, which aims for the exchange of goods for the dialogue, Anastasia started a series of live events, embracing various graphic media in order to illuminate and visualize the real time

discussions. In this sense, illustration becomes an interactive experience, which role is a graphical translation of ideas and mapping the complexity of information. Born in Moscow, Russia, she is currently studying in Design Academy Eindhoven, Man & Communication department.

There she is also a writer and editor of

the official school magazine, a student platform for design criticism.

ARIE LENGKEEK (AIR FOUNDATION)

Arie Lengkeek is editor and programmemaker at AIR, Rotterdam centre for Architecture. His background as urban planner helps him to focus on the values, actors and processes which contribute to the built environment and its qualities. Facilitating emerging practices in the production of the city is his key interest, reflected in programmes like Van der Leeuwkring and PLUG Rotterdam, which are learning environments connecting a wide diversity of agents.

BRITT JURGENSEN (HOMEBAKED COMMUNITY L ANDTRUST AND CO-OPERATIvE BAKERY)

Britt Jurgensen is a German theatre/ performance artist and community activist currently based in North Liverpool where she is a member and co-producer of Homebaked. Homebaked is a Community Land Trust and Co-operative Bakery located on the high street, just a few steps from the famous Liverpool Football Club. In a neighbourhood that has severely suffered from stalled regeneration programmes it proposes a scheme of community-led development of parts of the high street, providing workspace for social enterprise, affordable housing and spaces to meet, to chat and to celebrate. At the heart of this

endeavor is the principle of creating value, social and monetary, which stays within the neighbourhood and is invested into its communities.

CAROLINA RITO (CURATOR)

Carolina Rito is a curator, writer and researcher, born in Portugal and currently living in London. Since 2011 she is a graduate student of the PhD in Curatorial/Knowledge, at Goldsmiths College, London, UK, supervised by Irit Rogoff. Currently she is also developing the project disdisdis in collaboration with the artist Luisa Ungar. Previously she has lectured in the MA and BA programmes in Portugal. In 2013 she was Curator in Residency in UNIDEE – Cittadellarte, in Fondazione Pistoletto, Italy. In 2010/2011 she was curator-researcher at a curatorial residency in CuratorLab at Konstfack in Stockholm, and worked as assistant curator for the Arts and Architecture Programme of Guimaraes European Capital of Culture. In 2009 she was a visiting curator at Situations (dir. Claire Doherty), Bristol, UK. Her curatorial projects include, in 2013 The Compromise, co-curated with Jeanne Van Heeswijk, in 2012 the exhibition BES Revelação in Serralves Museum, Porto, and in 2008 the process-based project at Botanical Garden, supported by the Gulbenkian Foundation.

CHRISTOPHER ROBBINS (GHANA THINKTANK)

Christopher Robbins works on the uneasy cusp of public art and international development, creating sculptural interventions in the daily lives of strangers. He built his own hut out of mud and sticks and lived in it while serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Benin, West Africa, spoke at a United Nations conference about his

cross-cultural digital arts and education work in the South Pacific, and has lived and worked in London, Tokyo, West Africa, the Fiji Islands, and former Yugoslavia. He has exhibited at the Venice Biennial of Architecture, zKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, New Museum Festival of Ideas, Trade School at the Whitney Museum, the National Museum of Wales, Nikolaj Kunsthallen/Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, and been awarded residencies or fellowships from Skowhegan, MacDowell Colony, Haystack, Penland and Anderson Ranch, among others. The Ghana ThinkTank, which he cofounded in 2006, is a global network of think tanks from the “developing” world, whose premise is to “Develop the First World.” They collect problems in the U.S. and Europe, and send them to think tanks they established in Cuba, Ghana, Palestine, Iran, Mexico and El Salvador to analyze and solve. They then work with the communities where the problems originated to implement those solutions – whether they seem impractical or brilliant.

DOROTHEE RICHTER (ZURICH UNIvERSITY OF THE ARTS)

Dr. Dorothee Richter, is head of the Postgraduate Programme in Curating (MAS/CAS) at the University of the Arts zurich (zHdK). She also co-founded with Susanne Clausen the “Research Platform for Curatorial and Cross-disciplinary Cultural Studies, Practice-Based Doctoral Programme” a cooperation of the Postgraduate Programme in Curating and the Department of Fine Arts, University of Reading. She initiated the Curating Degree zero Archive together with Barnaby Drabble. She curated and programmed different exhibition series like Feldforschung Hausfrauenkunst, female qualities, exile and mainstream. From 1999 to the end of 2003, Richter was artistic director of the Künstlerhaus

Bremen where she curated a discursive

programme based on feminist issues, urban situations, power relation issues, and institutional critique. Since 1998, Richter has held lecturing posts at the University of Bremen, the Merzakademie Stuttgart, the École des Beaux Arts in Geneva, and the Universität Lüneburg. Most recent publication is “Fluxus. Kunst gleich Leben? Mythen um Autorschaft, Produktion, Geschlecht und Gemeinschaft” (Fluxus, art is life? Myths around authorship, production, gender and community”) and the new Internet

platform on-curating.org which presents current approaches to critical curatorial practice. She curated for example a Fluxus Festival and exhibition with Adrian Notz at Cabaret Voltaire and other series like New Social Sculptures at Kunstmuseum Thun with the PP in Curating. In 2013 she published a film together with Ronald Kolb: „Flux Us Now! Fluxus explored with a camera.“ Which was screened at Staatsgalerie Stuttgart in April 2013 and in October 2013 at the Migros Musem fuer Gegenwartskunst in zürich. In September 2013 she was appointed as mentor for POOL, zürich.

ELI FEGHALI & RACHEL PLATTUS (NEW ECONOMY COALITION)

Eli Feghali is the Director of Communications and Online Organizing for the New Economy Coalition. He is a Lebanese-American who has spent the majority of his professional life as a communications specialist and community organizer focused on issues of economic and social justice. At NEC, Eli works to create and promote effective narratives about the movement to build

a New Economy that prioritizes people, place, and the planet. Outside of his day job, Eli is active in a climate justice affinity group and in local efforts to grow the cooperative sector in Boston. When not eating vegan food or watching the Celtics, Eli can be found on Twitter (@efeghali). Rachel Plattus is Director of Organizing (Youth and Student Network) at the New Economy Coalition. She coordinates NEC’s youth and student organizing programs and works to build broad community, movement and organizational engagement in the New Economy. Rachel is active in climate justice work as a member of a Boston-based organizing collective, Simorgh. She hopes to support communities in embracing and protecting what is left of our planet and in building resilience in the face of environmental and economic transformation. Someday she would like to be a heron or a whale. Rachel

lives in Boston, MA.

ELKE KRASNY (ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS vIENNA)

Elke Krasny is Senior Lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She was Guest Professor at the University of Bremen in 2006, at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg in 2013, and at the Vienna University of Technology in 2014. In 2012 she was Visiting Scholar at the CCA, Canadian Centre for Architecture, in Montréal. Her work as a curator, critic, cultural theorist and urban researcher

clearly shows her interest in urban transformation processes, the critical history of architecture, the politics of history, and the historiography of feminist curatorial practices. The edited book on the history of self-organization hands-on

urbanism 1850 – 2012. the right to green

appeared in 2012 and her exhibition by the same name was shown at the Architecture Centre Vienna, the Museum for Contemporary Art Leipzig and included in the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2012. She co-edited the 2013 volume

women ’ s:museum. curatorial politics in

feminism, education, History, and Art.

ENRIC DURAN GIRAIT & RAqUEL BENEDICTO (COOPERATIvA INTEGRAL CATALANA)

ENRIC DURAN GIRALT If in the year 2008, he was known for the expropriation of €492,000 from 39 banks to be allocated to social change initiatives, today he is known for having promoted the Catalan Integrated Cooperative, which has become after three years a living example for an alternative construction of society, bringing together thousands of people and hundreds of cooperative projects.

RAqUEL BENEDICTO Working since 2010 in Cooperativa Integral Catalana (CIC). She’s working in different work commissions in CIC in the areas of

economic, welcoming and productive projects. She also work in the replication of the tools that CIC has create for the communal good, in the rest of Catalonia, explaining people how this tools work and forming them, and how this can help them to change his dependence of the state. Mother of a son, don’t believe capitalism would give her little baby a real solution, so she also work with different education projects. She’s out of the system, cannot have a job or a bank account and she’s happy with it, because long time ago, she decided to be a human in the earth.

ETHEL BARAONA POHL (DPR-BARCELONA)

Ethel Baraona Pohl is a writer, publisher and curator; her [net]work is a real hub linking several publications and actors on architecture and theory. Co-founder of the independent publishing house dpr-barcelona, and editor at quaderns

d ’ arquitectura i urbanisme. She’s also contributing editor for different blogs and magazines, and has written articles

for domus, volume, the new city reader [Istanbul edition] and mas context among others. She has been invited to present her work in events like postópolis! df, and the international architecture festival eme3. Associate Curator for “Adhocracy”, first commissioned for the Istanbul Design Biennial in 2012 and exhibited at The New Museum, NYC [May 2013] and Lime Wharf, London [Summer 2013]. Curator, with César Reyes Nájera, of the third Think Space programme with the theme ‘Money’.

EvA vISSER (KENNISCENTRUM CREATING 010)

Social Historian Eva Visser works for as a

researcher and tutor for Kenniscentrum Creating 010 (Rotterdam University).

Her work includes research in the field of Cultural Diversity and on new economic models for young artists and designers. Together with Levien Nordeman she wrote the article ‘The limitations and possibilities of co-creation in the public domain of Rotterdam’ for the CATaC ‘12 conference in Aarhus, in which Freehouse was used as a case study.

GEORG ZOCHE (TRANSNATIONAL REPUBLIC)

Georg zoche was born in Munich, where he studied engineering and philosophy and was working as exotica DJ. In 1992, his work on lightweight diesel engines for aircraft received a research award. Since 1995, the zoche aero-diesel is on permanent display in the Deutsche Museum. zoche holds patents on internal combustion engines, electro motors and reverse vending systems. Since 1996, zoche is researching the topic of a more participatory globalisation process. To this end he co-founded in 2001 the grassroots movement The United Transnational Republics, which has been joined by more than 6,000 citizens from over 100 nation states. The United

Transnational Republics participated at well over 60 international conferences, exhibitions, seminars, workshops in the fields of politics, activism and art (Torino Biennial, Venice Biennial, attac summer academy, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Münchner Kammerspiele, Palais de Tokyo Paris etc.). In 2006, zoche was invited to present

at the international forum on the social

science (the first UNESCO summit on globalisation and democracy) and to contribute to “The Buenos Aires Declaration”. In 2007, zoche was speaker

at the unesco monterrey forum, where he co-authored “The Monterrey Manifesto” and was selected as winner in the global

governance essay contest. In 2009, zoche’s first book about the (geo)political power of currencies was

published (welt macht geld, münchen: blumenbar).

HENK OOSTERLING (ROTTERDAM vAKMANSTAD)

Dr. Henk A.F. Oosterling is associate professor at the Dept. of Philosophy of the Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

where he teaches philosophy of difference, dialectics, and philosophy of art since 1985. His academic research

focuses on intermedial art, design, and interculturality. He published and edited dozens of books and received the Erasmus Research Award (1996). In 2004 Oosterling initiated and since 2007 directs a long-term educational urban renovation programme called Rotterdam Skillcity, based on the philosophical insights of Foucault, Deleuze/Guattari and Arendt. This

emancipatory project connects groups on a neighbourhood level, and educationally aims at eco-literacy, reintroducing a 21st

century craftsmanship in the school curricula, He was awarded for this with the Rotterdam Laurens Coin (2008) and the national Van Praag Reward (2013). His most recent book on this discursive practice is ECO3: Reflection (2013).

JAIME IGLEHART (ARTIST)

Jaime Iglehart is a multimedia artist exploring questions of freedom, authority, and human social interaction within the

context of autonomous collectivism.

Past projects have taken the form of installation, performance, photography, textile, pedagogy, curating, and most recently, open source mapping. Jaime is the vice-president of the New Age Beverages corporation.

JAN JONGERT (SUPERUSE STUDIOS)

Jan Jongert studied in Delft and graduated as Architect at the Academy of Architecture Rotterdam in 2003. As cofounder of Superuse Studios in Rotterdam (formerly known as 2012Architecten) he designs interiors and buildings and develops strategies to facilitate the transition to a sustainable

society. He focuses at developing tools and processes and realises projects that empower local exchange and production, as an alternative to transporting our resources, products and components around the globe. Jan Jongert specialised in the behaviour of flows in interior, industrial and urban environment. His key projects are Villa Welpeloo (2009), Recyclicity MSP (2010) and various open source web-platforms (Superuse. org, Cyclifier.org and Harvestmap.org). Jan Jongert currently holds the position of Lector at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague.

JAROMIL/DENIS ROIO (NABA, MILAN)

Denis Roio, better known as Jaromil, is a developer, activist and artist of the Dyne. org network. Since the year 2000 his works have focused on computer viruses, piracy, freedom of speech, privacy and independent media practices. Jaromil’s software creations are recommended by the Free Software Foundation and redistributed in several GNU/Linux

systems worldwide, while he is also an active contributor to media theory discourses. In 2009 he was the receipt of the Vilém Flusser Award, now completing his Ph.D. on digital economies, also focusing on cryptographic systems such as Bitcoin.

JEANNETTE PETRIK (RESEARCHER, WRITER & DESIGNER)

Jeannette Petrik is a researcher, writer and designer currently based in Rotterdam. Her practice revolves around the creation of opportunities for public empowerment and skill sharing. She considers the design

of situations and performative actions as a tool for everyday political engagement. At the core of her practice lies the in-depth, contextual analysis of the subjective dynamics inherent in social arrangements and material cultures, which allows her to facilitate the creation

of events of doubt in dialogue with her surrounding environment. Jeannette has studied Product Design at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma

de Mexico and has pursued a bachelor degree at Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design in London before taking up a master degree in Contextual Design at the Design Academy Eindoven, in the context of which she created a body of research around the notion of Extremism within the Everyday. Currently, she is working as a freelance and independent researcher, designer and writer.

MARCEL JONGMANS (ENTHOUSIASMEUR)

Enthousiasmeur in the first place. He thinks in terms of opportunities and focuses on small initiatives with

a big impact and the power of cooperation. Marcel Jongmans works independently but also functions as a communications consultant employed by the municipality of Rotterdam, a liaison between the municipality and Rotterdam neighbourhoods. Makes people enthusiastic about themselves, the organisation they work for or the neighbourhood they live in via trainings, lectures and bringing possibilities together.

MATTEO LUCCHETTI (PROJECT vISIBLE)

Matteo Lucchetti is an independent curator, and art historian. He holds an MA in Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies with a thesis entitled Enacting a Community, about the relationship between collaborative artistic practices and the idea of community. He has been curator in residence at AIR – Artist in

residence, Antwerp, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, and Para Site, Hong Kong. His main curatorial projects include:

don ’ t embarrass the bureau! (Lunds Konsthalle, Lund, 2014); legally. Anna Scalfi Eghenter (Biennale di Democrazia,

Turin, 2013); enacting populism in its mediascape (Kadist Art Foundation, Paris 2011 – 2012); practicing memory (Cittadellarte, Biella, 2010). He is cocurator of visible (Pistoletto Foundation/ Fondazione zegna), a biennial production award and research project on socially engaged artistic practices in a global context. Lucchetti lectures regularly at the Piet zwart Institute, Rotterdam and is a visiting lecturer at the Brera Art Academy, Milan and at St Lucas University College of Art, Antwerp. He has written for Manifesta blog, Art-Agenda, This is Tomorrow, and Mousse, among others, and he has edited the monograph “Michelangelo

Consani: The Caspian Depression”. Matteo Lucchetti lives and works in Brussels.

MICHAEL BIRCHALL (UNIvERSITY OF WOLvERHAMPTON)

Michael G. Birchall is a curator, writer and PhD candidate with an interest

in collaborative and participatory art practices. He has curated exhibitions and projects including ‘Wie geht’s dir Stuttgart/How are you doing Stuttgart?’ and ‘Hier und Jetzt’ – at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart. He has attended residencies at The Western Front, Vancouver, Canada, and at The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada. His writing has appeared in Frieze, Frieze d/e, ThisIsTomorrow and C-Magazine. Michael is currently a PhD candidate in Art, Critique and Social Practice at the University of Wolverhampton (UK) where he is undertaking research into the role of the curator as a producer in social and participatory-based art. He is a co-publisher of the journal oncurating and a lecturer on the postgraduate program in Curating at the zurich University of the Arts.

PEDRO MEDINA (YO CREO EN COLOMBIA)

Pedro Medina is a professor, a catalyst, a mentor and a social entrepreneur. He is a Fellow at the Weatherhead Center

for International Affairs at Harvard

University and a Batten Fellow at the Darden School of the University of Virginia. He worked in Mobil Polymers International, Propilco, a licensee of Union Carbide and Shell, Sofasa, the Toyota and Renault assembly plant in Colombia, and brought McDonald´s into Colombia. He led the company as its General Manager for 7 years. While at McDonald´s, Medina founded and led a state of the art program called “I believe in Colombia”. The business magazine Dinero chose him as one of the 20 most valuable businessmen in Colombia.

The program, now a non-profit foundation, has touched 680,000 persons in 159 cities and 29 countries, and has extended into I believe in Latin America. He has

been a Professor of business strategy, leadership and innovation in 4 universities for 18 years. A columnist in 12 newspapers and magazines, Medina wrote his first book – Puentes, Redes y Trampolines and has collaborated on three others. He holds

a BA degree in Economics, History and International Relations from the University of Virginia, an MBA from the Darden School and a Bachelor in Hamburgerology from Hamburger University in Chicago.

PELIN TAN (MARDIN ARTUKLU UNIvERSITY)

As a sociologist, art historian she completed her PhD. on socially engaged art practices in urban space, and her postdoc on artistic research at Art, Culture and Technology program at MIT (2011).

She co-directed “2084, episode I – III” videos on the future of institutions (with A.Vidokle). Tan was a research fellow of The Japan Foundation where she conducted a research on artist run spaces. Currently, she is assistant professor and vice-dean of the Architecture Faculty of Mardin Artuklu University.

RASMUS UGILT (AARHUS UNIvERSITY)

Rasmus Ugilt is assistant professor at the Department of Culture and Society, Aarhus University. He teaches history of philosophy, metaphysics and contemporary continental philosophy. His current research project aims to produce a philosophical analysis of the current global juridico-political situation focussing on the consequences of the global war on terror. Recent publications

include the metaphysics of terror, Bloomsbury, 2012, “Evil as an Aesthetic Concept”, academic quarter, 2012, “The

Nazi-Card-Card”, the journal of slavoj zizek studies, 2012, and we just talk! – reflections on economy and public life, w. Jeanne van Heeswijk, Taschenspiel Press, 2013.

ROEL IN ‘T vELD (PROFESSOR GOvERNANCE & SUSTAINABILITY)

Prof. dr. Roeland Jaap in ‘t Veld was born in the middle of the Second World

War and studied law and economics in

Leiden and Rotterdam. He became a master of law in 1964 and was appointed as a junior-lecturer at the law faculty of Leiden University. In 1969 he entered the university administration where he became personal assistant to the university president. In 1975 he became doctor after completion of a dissertation on theoretical foundations of collective

decision-making. In 1977 In ‘t Veld became full professor of political science at the University of Nijmegen. During the years 1979 – 1982 he also was an advisor to the Minister for Science Policy. From 1982 to 1988 he was appointed as the Director-General for Higher Education and Scientific Research. For six years he was the Vice-Chairman of the OECD-Education Committee, and for two decades a chairman and a member of the High Council and the Research Council of the European University Institute at Florence.

In ‘t Veld chaired the committee that

prepared the strategic study Beyond Maintenance, and also participated in later strategic studies. He was a full professor of government at Erasmus University Rotterdam from 1988 to 1998, and at Leiden University from 1990 to 1998. In 1993 he served as Secretary of State for Higher Education. For the next decade, In ‘t Veld held various professorships at a number of universities: 1994 – 2006 at University of Amsterdam in organisational science; 1995 – 2004 at Utrecht University in public administration; and

2002 – 2004 at The European University Institute in Florence. In ‘t Veld has been Dean of the (Graduate) Netherlands School of Government, and rector of Sioo. He held till 2013 two

professorial chairs in the domains of management and governance at the Open University Netherlands and the University of the Dutch Antilles, and has accepted in 2010 an appointment as Professor of Governance and Sustainability at the University of Tilburg. During 2010 – 11 he was as a visiting fellow at the IASS, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Germany. In ‘t Veld serves in advisory positions for several ministers; and has held positions as an advisor for the World Bank, for OECD, for EC and for the Council of Europe. From 1996 till 2010 he was chairman of the National Council for Spatial and Environmental Research. During the decade 2000 – 2010 he has been chairman of the Board of Directors

of the Netherlands Railways infra-provider PRORAIL. He held several positions as a member of the Board of Directors at IBM Netherlands, HSK and Berenschot. Professor In ‘t Veld has published several books on Planning Theory, Structuring Higher Education, Theoretical Foundations of Steering Theory and recently Knowledge Democracy and Sustainability. He has recently published Transgovernance, The quest for the Governance of Sustainable Development.

SIKKO CLEvERINGA (CAL-XL)

Sikko Cleveringa is Director of CAL-XL, the Dutch organization for community arts and new cultural functions. He

leads a team of national experts working on networking, training, research, documentation and advocacy and is itself active in these areas as a senior advisor. In the period 2001 – 2010 he was ‘Cultural broker’ of the Municipality of Deventer. He is one of the pioneers in the Netherlands of developing and supporting community arts and related forms of artistic interventions in social development. In the period 1990 – 2000 he worked in Tanzania, Rwanda and Burkina Faso as a development expert with specialties as land use planning, micro credit and in Burkina Faso

regional radio and event management. In the late eighties he graduated in rural development at Larenstein (now part of Wageningen University). Sikko Cleveringa is the author of several publications and articles on community arts and appears regularly as a guest speaker at symposia. He developed a project scan for community arts and wrote a guideline on ‘Culture New Style “(2012). Sikko is a board member of the Foundations One World Jam (Music) and La Benevolencia (Radio). Community Arts Lab XL (CAL-XL), is the Dutch organization for community arts and new cultural functions. Our work

is about cultural entrepreneurship and