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civic engagement. Important themes include reinforcing professionalism and legitimacy, sustainable programs in stead of incidental projects, vital coalitions and culture producing citizens. CAL-XL is a platform and catalyst for new connections between artistic and social

sectors, between theory and practice. Spearheads are networking, training, research, documentation and advocacy. We build partnerships and acquire grants for the development of new products and services. The implementation is basically on the basis of contracts and the contribution of participants.

SILvIA SIMONCELLI (BRERA ART ACADEMY)

Silvia Simoncelli is an art historian and

independent curator based in Milan and zurich. She is professor at Brera Art Academy and course leader of the Advanced Course in Contemporary Art Markets, NABA in Milan. She lectures regularly for the Postgraduate Programme in Curating at zHdK, zurich and she is copublisher of the web journal oncurating. Her research interests comprise the relation between art and economy, institutional critique and art in public space. She is currently editing an issue of oncurating on the topic of the commons. Recent projects and participations

include: artists and rights in contemporary

art, symposium, Artissima, Turin; visions of labour, exhibition, Kunshalle Sao Paulo;

who is afraid of the public, symposium, ICI, London, 2013; performing structures, exhibition, Wascherei, Kunstverein zurich,

2012; Deimantas narkevicius, revisiting utopia, special program, Winterthur Short Film Festival, 2011. In 2014 she will curate a series of artistic interventions within

the frame of Dencity, an interdisciplinary cultural project in the suburban area of Giambellino, in Milan.

SUE BELL YANK (SOCIAL PRACTICE)

Sue Bell Yank is a writer, producer, and arts organizer. She currently works as an online education producer for the Oprah Winfrey Network and was formerly the Associate Director of Academic Programs at the Hammer Museum. She graduated from the Masters of Public Art Studies program at USC, focusing on the role of contemporary art in rebuilding efforts after a crisis, focusing on post-Katrina New Orleans. She has worked with artist Edgar Arceneaux as a co-founder and Assistant Director for the Watts House

Project, and has a deep-seated investment in socially and politically-engaged art that can be traced to her years as a public school teacher in Lynwood and South Fairfax. She is currently an advisor for the Asian Arts Initiative’s Social Practice Lab and the granting organization SPArt, was a curatorial advisor for the Creative Time Living as Form exhibition (2011), and was part of the curatorial team for the 2008

California Biennial. Her writing has been featured in exhibition catalogues, Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, the Huffington Post, KCET Artbound, and various arts blogs including her ongoing essay blog entitled Social Practice: Writings about the social in contemporary art. She has been a lecturer at California College of the Arts, Otis College of Art and Design, UCLA, and USC.

SUSANNE BOSCH (ARTIST)

Susanne Bosch is an artist and teaches. From 2007 – 2012, she developed and led the Art in Public master programme at the University of Ulster in Belfast together with Dan Shipsides. She works predominantly in public and on long-term questions, which tackle creative arguments around the ideas of democracy. Works include among other things issues around money, migration, surviving, work, societal visions and participation models. She formally uses site – and situation – specific interventions, installations, video, drawing, audio, dialogic work, in addition formats such as writing, speaking, listening, workshops, seminars and Open Space conferences. She is a trained Open Space facilitator (2008) and trained in conflict analysis and – management (2004). Susanne works internationally on exhibitions and projects in public space, e.g. she was involved with Jericho – beyond the celestial and terrestrial, 4th edition of Cities Exhibition, Bir zeit (2012/13), Citizen Art Days Berlin (2012/13), Arte Útil Archiv, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2013), Click or Clash? Strategies of collaboration, Galleria Bianconi, Milano (2013). She is co-editor and editor, the most recent books being STATE (2011) edited collaboratively with the artist Anthony Haughey, Dublin (published by Project Arts Centre Dublin) and Connections: Artists in communication (2012) edited collaboratively with the artist Andrea Theis (published by Interface Research Center Belfast).

TAMAR SHAFRIR (DESIGNER)

Tamar Shafrir is a writer and editor in

the fields of design and architecture, based in Genoa, Italy. She received her bachelor’s degree in architectural design at the University of Virginia and her master’s degree in contextual design at the Design Academy Eindhoven. Her articles have been published in domus magazine, and she also works on editorial projects with designers, curators, and critics including Unfold, Jan Boelen, and Louise Schouwenberg. She was the catalogue editor for the first Istanbul Design Biennial and worked on the adhocracy exhibition in Istanbul, New York, and London. In 2013, in partnership with Joseph Grima, she started Space Caviar, a practice for critique, curation,

and consultancy, beginning with neoasterisms, a collaborative rewriting of the constellations for experimental design in Lisbon, followed by An archaeology of rose island for the 2013 Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture. She

has lectured at the Design Academy Eindhoven, at What Design Can Do in Amsterdam, at the Politecnico di Milano, and at Premsela’s Milan Breakfasts during the Salone del Mobile.

TINE DE MOOR (INSTITUTIONS FOR COLLECTIvE ACTION)

Tine De Moor studied social and economic

history and environmental sciences at the universities of Ghent, Antwerp and London and is professor “Institutions for collective action in historical perspective” at the department of history of Utrecht University. Her research focuses on both historical (modern and early modern) and present-day forms of self-governing institutions, in which citizens are cooperating towards collective economic or social goals, such as commons, guilds, cooperatives and present-day civil collectivities. Her research combines

extensive empirical research and analysis with modelling and a strongly theoretical framework and has been published in several books and high-ranking journals. She is an executive board member of

the international association for the

study of the commons, for which she also founded the peer-reviewed open-access

international journal of the commons. She is also a member of the both Dutch and European Young Academey. Currently she is in charge of several large projects on institutions for collective action and

related issues on which more information

can be found at www.collective-action.info.

ORGANIZERS

PABLO CALDERON (SOCIAL DESIGNER)

Pablo Calderón Salazar is an Industrial Designer (bachelor level) from the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University of Bogotá, Colombia (2008) and Social Designer (Master in Design) from Design Academy Eindhoven (June 2013). The essence of his practice lies in collaborating with local partners in the different contexts where his projects take place. He empathically interprets the interests of different constituents, using dialogue as his main tool. Giving great attention to the political, economical, social and cultural conditions under which his projects take place, he produces texts, installations, graphics, videos, interven-tions and events that provoke reflection around relevant issues in society; but this critical stance is always accompanied by a propositive one, which tries to hint into better ways of living together. His master graduation project was called the other market, a platform, materialized in a series of pushcarts and stalls, to trade products

and services without money, using dialogue as a currency.

ASHRAF OSMAN (ARTINECT)

Ashraf Osman is an architect, curator, and consultant on public art, olfactory art, and social media for the arts. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, he completed his Master of Architecture at Syracuse University in New York, where he received the James Britton Memorial Award for Outstanding Thesis for his thesis,

“ memory for forgetfulness”: registering/

effacing the memory of the lebanese war. Ashraf has over 10 years of experience as an architect in Princeton, NJ and Philadelphia, PA where he also taught Interdisciplinary Design Foundations for 2 years at Philadelphia University. He is a Registered Architect both in the US and Lebanon. Ashraf has recently founded ARTINECT, a consultancy for connecting art both physically – by providing artwork for architectural spaces – and virtually – by managing the web presence of art entities. He is currently completing his Master of Advanced Studies at the Postgraduate Programme in Curating at zurich University of the Arts (zHdK).

JEANNE vAN HEESWIJK (ARTIST , INITIATOR OF FREEHOUSE)

How can an artist be an instrument

for the collective reimagining of daily environments, given the complexity of our societies? This is the question that artist Jeanne van Heeswijk, of the Netherlands, considers when deciding how to employ her work to improve communities. Van Heeswijk believes communities need to co-produce their own futures. That’s why she embeds herself, for years at a time, in communities from Rotterdam to Liverpool, working with them to improve their neighbourhoods and empowering them to design their own futures – not wait for local authorities to foist upon them urban planning schemes which rarely take embedded culture into account. Her work often attempts to unravel invisible legislation, governmental codes, and social institutions, gradually preparing areas for their predictive futures. She calls it “radicalising the local” by empowering communities to become their own antidote.

Van Heeswijk’s work has been featured in numerous books and publications worldwide, as well as internationally renowned biennials such as those of Liverpool, Busan, Taipei, Shanghai and Venice. She has received a host of

accolades and recognitions for her work, including most recently the 2012 Curry Stone Prize for Social Design Pioneers and the 2011 Leonore Annenberg Prize for Art and Social Change.