Take part in the largest conference on Higher Arts Education and join international colleagues in an engaging 3-day programme featuring high-profile speakers, plenary discussions, paper presentations, best practices, networking events, mobile sessions at cultural institutions in the city and much more.
The 15th ELIA Biennial Conference is hosted by Codarts University of the Arts and Willem de Kooning Academy/Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences in Rotterdam – a young, dynamic and innovative city. Our discussion will focus on the role of the arts in creating resilient cities in times of global change.
See you in Rotterdam from 21 to 24 November 2018!
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| REGISTRATION FEES | |
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| Early Bird ELIA Member Fee [registered before or on 30 June 2017] | 395 EUR |
| Regular ELIA Member Fee [registered on or from 1 July 2018 onwards] Final registration deadline 9 November 2018 |
495 EUR |
| Students’ Fee There is a limited number of spaces available in the student category. Preference is given to doctoral and master programme students from ELIA Member Institutions. Individuals employed by a Higher Arts Education institution do not qualify for the students’ fee. |
75 EUR |
| Non-Member Fee |
2000 EUR |
| Accompanying Person Fee |
100 EUR |
| The registration fee includes all conference materials and publications, access to all conference sessions and related events, two lunches, two dinners and the Closing Party. Please note: the Accompanying Person Fee is meant for accompanying persons joining the social and cultural events only. |
The Arts enable us to express and develop our cultural identities and reveal the diversity within our society. Cross-disciplinary projects create new structures that can pinpoint social tensions, address differences and demonstrate how much we have in common. In addressing these social challenges there is also an imperative to uphold a heterogeneous society, protect minority rights and integrate or perhaps also simply accept differences of all kinds. Do the arts, especially socially engaged artistic practices, gain a particular responsibility in times of increasing right-wing conservatism, when the freedom of artistic expression is threatened?
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Registration |
| 13:00 - 16:00 | Open Space |
| 14:30 | School Tours (optional) Willem de Kooning Academy, Codarts |
| 16:00 - 19:00 | ELIA Afternoon Get to know ELIA through its active projects and join the various discussions on Artistic Research, EU Funding, Art in Education, Quality Assurance, Evaluation Models and Teaching Practices on How to Make a Living from the Arts. |
| 19:00 - 21:00 | Welcome Dinner Networking dinner & entertainment |
| 08:30 - 09:30 | Registration |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Opening Ceremony |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Plenary Keynote to be announced |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Plenary Keynote to be announced |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 17:30 | Thematic Mobile Sessions Experience Rotterdam’s creative spaces and participate in the thematic presentations at these unique locations. Art & Social Cohesion / Art & Economy / Art & Innovation / Shifting Centres, Shifting Margins |
| 18:30 - 19:30 | Civic Reception Welcome by the City of Rotterdam |
| 20:00 - 22:00 | Dinner Laurenskerk |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Registration |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Plenary Keynote to be announced |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 - 12:45 | Panel 'What is the Role of the Art School in a Resilient City' Elke Krasny, Y.M.P, Antoni Muntadas, Roufaida Aboutaleb, moderated by Anke Bangma |
| 12:45 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 17:30 | Thematic Mobile Sessions Experience Rotterdam’s creative spaces and participate in the thematic presentations at these unique locations. Art & Social Cohesion / Art & Economy / Art & Innovation / Shifting Centres, Shifting Margins |
| 19:00 | Closing Ceremony & Party |
| 08:30 - 09:30 | Registration General Assembly Members Only |
| 09:30 - 13:00 | General Assembly Members Only |
Open Space is a creative and communal approach to facilitating workshops. It is a format where the participants generate the topics and angles for discussion. These will be brought into smaller groups where they will be debated and discussed. If at any time a participant feels that they are not contributing, aren’t learning or simply are irritated by the discussion, they can move to a different group.
The most important principle of the Open Space is that anyone who joins should be passionate about the topic and actively create something out of this passion and interest.
Here is more about the history of Open Space and its guiding principles.
At the ELIA Biennial, we invite the delegates to join the Open Space and create a marketplace of topics.
As an example, you can bring the following varied topics into the Open Space:
Among the varied topics proposed by the delegates, there will also be a few pop-up sessions in the Open Space. These will include a presentation of the new upcoming initiative of ELIA; a discussion on The Research Catalogue as Online Multimedia Repository for Higher Arts Education Institutions by the Society for Artistic Research; and a walk through Rotterdam entitled ‘Grenzgang – Laying a Keyword Path’ by Markus Schwander, Beate Florenz, Tabea Lurk and Daniel Brefin (Academy of Art and Design FHNW Basel), discussing methods of artistic research as they relate to the fluctuating space of the city.
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Shifting Centres, Shifting Margins: 22 November & 23 NovemberFind out what ELIA working groups have developed in the past months and take part in the conversation.
This session will focus on sharing experiences and knowledge on existing and emerging methods on how to support students in their artistic career development.
What are the skills that artists might need to be able to make a living from their artistic practice? Are Higher Arts Education institutions integrating these skills into the curriculum or are they being taught as extra-curricular subjects?
In this session we share insights from the project NXT Making a Living from the Arts and hope to hear questions and best practices from our members.
ELIA and AEC have established a working group on art in (primary and secondary) education. This group has done a quick scan of how art, design and the performing arts are being taught at this level across Europe and is engaged in the discussion about key competences and the creation of a European Area of Education and Culture by 2025. The working group will discuss its findings with the delegates and is looking forward to a good conversation with those present.
This session provides tools to arts universities to use their potential in critical reflection and innovative reasoning to come up with alternate and more development-oriented approaches to Quality Assurance and Quality Enhancement.
The workshop will start off with input by members of the ELIA working group on artistic research. They observed that within the last decade it has become common to use the arts and artistic research as fuel for the creative industries / urban spaces / cities. But the arts and artistic research in themselves are more than fuel: they contribute to society, cities and urban spaces. From the point of view of resilience this opens up a series of new questions: how can and should urbans spaces and cities contribute to the resilience of the arts and artistic research? City politics and artistic research practices often interact, as artistic research often needs to make use of public space. How can cities make sure to give space to arts and artistic research?
This interactive workshop will provide up to date information on European funding programmes and policies. Participants will learn more about taking part in calls and building a strong consortium.
Models to assess the outcome of teaching and research – be it rankings, indicators or peer reviews – have become highly influential not only for ranking universities worldwide, but also for the funding schemes applied to these institutions. Higher art education is increasingly affected by this development. At the same time, the models used to judge higher arts education are usually not fit to give valid information on these institutions. In the ELIA community, there is a controversial debate going on whether to abstain from these issues altogether or to explore ways in which adequate criteria could be found to actually assess higher arts education institutions. ELIA recently created a working group to work on this topic which will report on its work in this session.
Art and Social Cohesion: RAAFRAAF is a young multifunctional and cultural hotspot on the South side of Rotterdam. RAAF stands for Rotterdam-Art-Adventure & Food. Besides renting out their spaces, they are a creative hub with a small stage and a café. RAAF is involved in various cultural and creative projects. Innovation and development of the city’s South side is also very important to RAAF.
Delegates will experience RAAF through the sub-theme of ‘Art and Social Cohesion’ with presentations addressing socially engaged artistic practices.
| Chrissie Tiller: Why Cohesion? (When there’s so much to be justifiably angry about.) Northern Faculty of Social Art Practice, United Kingdom |
| In these urgent times of ‘austerity’ politics and immeasurable inequality, ‘Why Cohesion?’ will examine the neo-liberal imperative to create consensus and acceptance and look instead at the role the arts might play in creating a space for antagonism, dissent and engage with the real struggle for social justice. |
| Sara Burkhardt: How do we do it? Acting and reacting in a changing city Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design, Germany |
| Different people in the city describe their idea of resilience. Designers and artists at the University of Art and Design, cultural protagonists, educators and political figures. It is a search for quiet actions, small steps, soft interventions, ongoing dissent. The author's perspective is that of an educator, educating future art teachers. What do we pass on? How? |
| Ruxandra Demetrescu: Between layers of memories: the role of the "critical image" in creating a new reflection on the contemporary political and social context National University of Arts Bucharest, Romania |
| A search on a group of contemporary visual images and acts with a retrospective gaze: how can they describe as layers of memories? When does begin a critical image to reflect our present between the past and the future? Are images and performances an efficient tool for a new social cohesion? |
| Kai Lehikoinen: ArtsEqual Policy Work: Towards Resilience and Social Cohesion with Cultural Rights and Culture Wellbeing The University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland |
| ArtsEqual Research Initiative’s collaboration with its stakeholders strives to introduce arts into social and health sector as part of the national health and social services reform in Finland. Two research-based policy briefs that promote the realisation of cultural rights, culture wellbeing, social cohesion and resilience in cities will be presented. |
| Ranjana Thapalyal: Knowing the Self in the City of Multitudes Glasgow School of Art, United Kingdom |
| A twenty-minute intertextual presentation combining photography, academic research and poetry. This presentation is a reflection on what the individual is in relation to the group in the multiple interactions of the contemporary city. It proposes that only when we know ourselves can we behave fairly with others, and that the self-exists at social, cultural, political and also metaphysical levels. |
| Marike Hoekstra: Social spaces for learning. Connecting students with the neighbourhood: examples of social sculpture and socially engaged art education at the Breitner Academie/AHK Amsterdam University of the Arts, Netherlands |
| Part of the curriculum at the Breitner Academie/AHK consists of project-based modules that challenge students to actively interact with the urban environment of the school. In this presentation two practices will be highlighted that aim to create social spaces for learning, where students interact with the local community and redefine learning spaces. |
| Endre Raffay, Silvia Németh: Supporting resilience of multiply disadvantaged children by city/university art projects University of Pécs, Faculty of Music and Visual Arts, Hungary |
| Institute of Visual Arts is a co-founder of Creative Partnerships programme in Pécs, Hungary. Art students work in disadvantaged regions of the city, with disadvantaged children coming from ghetto parts. Their aim is to support their self-identity and school achievement by mini art-projects. |
| Anne Braakman: Reaching Out: Shout-out to Left-Out Youth Minerva Art Academy Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen, Netherlands |
| Reaching left out youths. A collaboration in artistic action research, between a municipality, university of applied sciences (of the arts) and various civil society organizations, which included; student involvement, artistic workshops for youths, action research methods (group meetings, qualitative interviews, a general respect for ‘localized knowledge’). |
| Adriana Cobo: Negotiating Visibility in London’s Granary Square: Performance, Maintenance and Power in the Contemporary Public Space University of the Arts London, United Kingdom |
| The paper presentation will present two performance projects tailored to Granary Square, the flagship public space within the King’s Cross redevelopment in London, which have been developed through author's PhD on critical performance practice for contemporary public space. Discussions will focus on the project’s delivery, negotiation processes and potential impact. |
| Elisa Palomino: An exploration of the potential of the Fish Leather Craftsmanship workshop at Iceland Academy of the Arts University of the Arts London, United Kingdom |
| A collaborative educational experience amongst Nordic Universities for enhancing learning around craftsmanship and sustainability in Fashion HE. A preservation of traditional fish leather craftsmanship in areas with a history of fish skin leather production such Iceland, Sweden, Finland and Denmark, encouraging Nordic design students to produce fish leather artefacts using their ancestors’ traditional skills. |
| Teana Boston-Mammah: Challenging the exclusion gap: the practice of inclusive pedagogy at the Willem de Kooning Academy Willem de Kooning Academy, Netherlands |
| This presentation will discuss the findings of the action based research project WdKA Makes A Difference (2015-2016) and the four-year research proposal it resulted in. |
| Fiona Woods: “Community Devastation Project”: Visualising the contrary logics of ‘regeneration’ through a collaborative arts-research approach Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland |
| The public sphere of art can function as a performative frame through which to present voices delegitimised by hegemonic discourse. This paper presentation will present a collaborative arts-research approach to excavating contrary logics present in neoliberal processes of urban regeneration, exploring their impact on matters of socio-spatial justice in Limerick city, Ireland. |
| Maziar Raein: Framing Design Performativity Oslo National Academy Of The Arts, Norway |
| This is a presentation of a three year research collaboration between the disciplines of design, musical performance and composition. Funded by Norwegian Artistic Research Programme the project investigated how the iconic works of music; Feldman’s King of Denmark and Xenakis’ Psappha, could be communicated to a contemporary audience. |
| Pawel Nowak, Joanna Kiliszek: Independent Artistic Structures as a Challenge for consolidating the Social Context in a Democratic Society Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland |
| The conviction about the need to create new artistic platforms (structures), interdisciplinary spaces, a critical and creative analysis of social differences, is the basis of practices used for years by students and professors at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. |
Art and Economy: Blue CityDelegates will experience Blue City through the sub-theme of ‘Art and Economy’ with presentations addressing interactions between the arts and economics.
| Andrew Brewerton: Agency: the role of Art Schools in building urban resilience through transformational social and economic impact Plymouth College of Art, United Kingdom |
| Increasingly transactional state orthodoxies for education policy separate the industrial purpose of learning [qualifications] from social purpose: living your life. Control measures and target culture undermine learner resilience and separate people from what they can do. Art Schools have a critical role as disruptive catalysts for social and economic transformation. |
| Tirdad Zolghadr: REALTY. On the Current Complicity Between Contemporary Art and Gentrification, and on Ways Beyond It Bern University of the Arts, Switzerland |
| The presentation focuses on the role of Contemporary Art in recent histories of urban development and gentrification. It seems fair to say that said histories reflect a stark and grisly example of art’s power effects today. How to redefine the possible rules of engagement, seeing as one artist, one venue, one model after another is unmasked as being part of the problem. |
| Glenn Loughran: Lifeless learning: Resistance and resilience in artistic education Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland |
| This presentation explores the characteristics which define the contemporary pedagogical subject. Emerging through the theory of human capital, this subject is adaptable, resilient, and flexible. Challenging the de-subjectivising character of these attributes, this paper proposes an alternative configuration through the concept of the 'evental subject'. |
| Elisabetta Lazzaro, Frederik Situmeang: Resilient arts: From skills to labour HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, Netherlands |
| We empirically investigate the impact and possible interactions between artistic and non-artistic skills of arts alumni on their performance in the beginning of their arts, as well non-arts, careers in the Netherlands. We finally draw conclusions and recommendations on the valorisation of creative skills on the overall labour market. |
| Eimer Birkbeck: LOCALITY as subject and setting; our past and our future Ecole Européenne Supérieure d'art de Bretagne, France |
| A three school international residency programme employing art & design students to examine the qualities of LOCALITY from temporary residency in several regions within three countries in Europe. Locality reawakens our sense of place, identifying the diverse and multidimensional qualities of shared space, contesting the macro context of an increasingly impersonalized globalised economy. |
| Mike Fitzpatrick: Cutting Edge Culture - Limerick a decade of change Limerick School of Art and Design, Ireland |
| Limerick, a gritty city on the west coast of Ireland, has utilised culture radically and successfully to change its sense of itself and has empowered its citizens to believe that change is possible. However some of the cultural community who were engaged in this process, lack confidence to develop their cultural capacity. |
| Katie O'Meara: H I G H E R G ROUND Leveraging Baltimore’s Topography to Increase Social and Climate Resiliency through Landscape Maryland Institute College of Art, USA |
| This is a data-driven design project that addresses flooding, increased resiliency to climate change, and economic redevelopment to provide social and racial integration in a highly segregated American city, Baltimore, Maryland. |
| Staffan Schmidt: Sacrifice, to the God of Resilience Malmö University, School of Arts and Communication, K3, Sweden |
| Anthropocene is the sum of dated, inequitable and unsustainable politics embedded in flows and things that continuously make decisions. Cities as things will keep running planetary events until democratic, manifold and situated conversations between humans, non-humans and the living planet take place, and urban citizenry willingly accepts decisive sacrifices. |
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Art and Innovation: Katendrecht
Katendrecht, a former sailors' district, is now home to the hip and happening. Over the past few years, this peninsula has become one of the liveliest parts of town without losing its rougher edges. Cute little eateries, ice salons and bars are around every corner these days, making Katendrecht a dream destination for foodies.
Delegates will experience Katendrecht through the sub-theme of ‘Art and Innovation’ with presentations addressing the creativity, innovation and arts education. The sessions will be held at 3 different spaces; Cafe Wallhalla, Circus Rotjeknor and Codarts Circus Arts.
Theater Walhalla, including Cafe Wallhalla, is a citizens' initiative by program maker Rachèl van Olm and comedian Harry-Jan Bus. It focuses on professional talent development that captures audiences, artists and the city with the combination of an authentic, personal and high-quality program and a personal, warm and welcoming approach.
Circus Rotjeknor was established in 1992 as the youth circus in Rotterdam. It has a pedagogical objective and uses the circus game to contribute to the development of children and young people.
Codarts Circus Arts offers an extensive study programme with a wide range of circus disciplines. Codarts Circus Arts offers inspiring setting to help the young talents to develop their authentic and artistic identity.
| Andreas Liebmann: An extended notion of theatre - democratic encounters and its poetics Danish National School for performing Arts, Denmark |
| Presentation of artistic practices that enable encounters between citizens on eye level: 'Evening school Import', 'Sports & politics,' 'All languages - a crash course', and recently developed approaches. These artworks address social and political discourses, don’t narrow down participants to target groups and take all equal in playful and serious social framings. |
| Mai Tran: Nantes, The Possibility of an Island Nantes School of Art, France |
| At the very heart of a voluntarist cultural policy pursued for 25 years and an urban project for the Île de Nantes, the new Nantes arts campus aims to bring out a European model and pole of excellence in the field of arts and higher education. |
| Ryan Hoover, Annet Couwenberg, Jon Stam: Unravel the Code: opening creative understandings of emerging technologies through intensive international workshops Maryland Institute College of Art, USA |
| 'Unravel the Code' is a multidisciplinary program that draws upon traditional crafts to explore emerging technologies of making. Students from MICA (USA) and WdKA (NL), following related coursework, meet to collaborate on a high-intensity workshop that opens new understandings of contemporary modalities through creative recontextualization of new and old technologies. |
| Aldje van Meer: From Bauhaus to art-education in the 21st century Willem de Kooning Academy, Netherlands |
| At the time of Bauhaus, they questioned the place of man in the mechanical/industrial world. Now you could be questioning the place of man in the digital world. What can we learn from the original ideas and ideals of Bauhaus? |
| Gaby Allard, Henk Oosterling: EMBODIMENT as the integral discourse for resilient urbanity ArtEZ, Netherlands |
| In the recent debate on new curricula one aspect has been neglected: the body. Yet the cultivation of resilience is rooted in physical learning and training. Embodied learning is based on a radicalized notion of sustainability: next to environmental issues - physical sustainability - social and mental aspects are taken into account as well. Resilient citizenship asks for the cultivation of this threefold sustainability. |
| Susanne Rosenberg: Folk Song Lab Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Sweden |
| This is a presentation of an on-going project called Folk Song Lab which addresses different approaches or methods for this deconstruction, and moreover reflection of the findings. The idea is to present the findings, the methods, and result with recordings and images from the experimental sessions as well as with sessions in itself. |
| Adam Cooke, Paul Jones: Living Labs: Precarious Practise and Agnostic Interventions Glyndwr University, United Kingdom |
| Through Living Lab activities with diverse stakeholders we explore the role of participation within the public realm and how in making visible conflicting opinions, politics and philosophies allow opportunities for young people to locate themselves in global contexts. |
| Frank Geßner: TESTeLAB & Guestś: Expanded Animation Cinema Worlds Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, Germany |
| TESTeLAB & Guestś is an inter-media interface project regarding to 'built attempts connecting the disconnected'. It sees itself as a universitarian 'research satellite' and an attemption of an expanded form and structure building on a free laboratory principle in order to explore an experimental material and media development for very latest Expanded Animation Cinema Worlds. |
The Witte de With quarter is the beating heart of the Rotterdam art scene and is known for the vibrant nightlife. Because the Witte de Withstraat connects the Museum Park and the Maritime Museum and offers space for different cultural institutions, it is called the art axis of Rotterdam.
Delegates will experience Witte de With through the sub-theme of ‘Shifting Centres, Shifting Margins’ with presentations addressing the different dimensions of urban development. The sessions will be held at three different spaces: Bioscoop and Ballet/Exposition Room at WORM and TENT Auditorium.
WORM’s Avantgardistic State is found in a building in the Boomgaardsstraat, a side street of the Witte de Withstraat in the centre of Rotterdam. It combines a well-supplied Stage for events, Filmhaus, Exhibition Space, Theatre Space, Performance Bar, Pirate Bay Media Archive, Analogue Sound Studio, Analogue Film Lab and #Wunderbar café. WORM organises and hosts film screenings, talks, exhibitions, performances, theatre shows, concerts, club nights, debates, workshops, readings and much more. The venue, archives and studios are built with recycled materials, the systems are energy efficient and they provide organic food and drink.
TENT is a platform for 100% contemporary art that has its roots in Rotterdam. It connects the art of the city with what happens in the world around it. The exhibition space is located in a monumental former school building at Witte de Withstraat 50, the cultural street of Rotterdam. Through its diverse programming, TENT focuses on relevant developments in contemporary art, with special attention being paid to current issues.
Delegates will have the opportunity to choose one of the 3 parallel sessions taking place at the 3 different spaces below. They each consist of the following presentations:
| David Hamers, Ester van de Wiel: Designing and programming a mobile platform to re-frame and re-make residual materials in public space and the public domain Design Academy Eindhoven, Netherlands |
| Re-Source is a design research project that focuses on how designers’ innovative capacities can help re-frame and re-make flows of residual material into resources (‘upcycling’). Re-Source combines a theoretical reflection on key concepts with a hands-on design research approach centering around a self-designed mobile platform that will host different audiences. |
| Bernhard Rudiger: Resilience and the practice of art, form as dialectical approach to the subjective and the collective National Association of French Higher Schools of Art (ANdÉA), France |
| It is difficult to consider the relationship between resilience and citizenship without referring to the research tools that have been developed by artists. Their work is based on the dialectic that opens up between the individual and the collective by studying and practicing the complex notion of form. The exercise of the exhibition can be analyzed in this context as a tool for 'interlocution'. |
| Alistair Payne, Henry Rogers, Gina Wall: The resilient city, reciprocity within creative ecologies Glasgow School of Art, United Kingdom |
| This presentation will focus on the City of Glasgow and the Art School, resilience and creative pedagogies and future strategies and creative ecologies. It will open discussion around the central tenets of resilience aligned to art practice and the creative ecologies of the city and beyond. |
| Mick O'Kelly: Art Tactics and Indeterminacy National College of Art and Design Dublin, Ireland |
| Nomadic Kitchen as a transversal field of operation invests in desire that produces flexible, fluid, nomadic and adaptable tactics to the different occasions and contexts of informal urban practices. Subjectivity and agency are produced as a spatial encounter to how we create and occupy cultural complexity and an aesthetic-spatial–politics. |
| Nancy Vansieleghem, Filip De Roeck: Schoolcamp@Calais LUCA School of Arts, Belgium |
| Inspired by the project Ecole Mondiale of the visual artists Filip Van Dingenen and Ive Van Bostraeten in the project Schoolcamp@Calais the authors rethink the idea of school in times of globalisation and migration. The question at stake is: How to rethink ‘école mondiale’ not in terms of colonizing, but in terms of seeing and experiencing our current world. Schoolcamp@Calais can be understood as a tentative exploration of a ‘sensuous’ laboratory that enables students and lecturers to ‘see’ and 'experience' our current condition |
| Jelena Todorovic: Invisible Cities – translation of literary into physical space University of the Arts Belgrade, Serbia |
| This presentation is about interdisciplinary project that Todorovic founded in 2012 as a part of doctoral studies revolved around the parallel exploration of literary and urban space. The famous book by Italo Calvino 'Invisible Cities' was taken as a departure point for the students’ to explore the literary space of the city and transpose it into a physical space, into their own visual experience. |
| Marc Boumeester: The Impredicative City: Underneath Resilience ArtEZ University of the Arts, Netherlands |
| The resilient city can be seen as a place of both agency and enabling constraints which retains its plasticity under changing conditions. Underneath this system lies an even more powerful and ancient organism that cannot be traced, yet can be mapped, as artists well know. |
| Gerry Kisil, Alan Dunning: Mirages des Ville Alberta College of Art and Design, Canada |
| Mirages des Ville, is an art project that studies the idea of multiple cities occupying one physical space. It does this by exploiting deficiencies in computer software and then mapping the electronic generated data onto concrete environments. This mixing of realities suggests that sometimes this information don’t just intersect but that it produces its own reality. |
| Janine Schiller, Basil Rogger: The Transformative Power of Cities. Art and Design in the Context of Urban Change Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland |
| 'The transformative Power of Cities. Art and Design in the Context of Urban Change' is an ongoing research project, that evaluates three one-year courses in terms of artistic and scientific approaches and methods and the role of city-comparisons. These international and interdisciplinary study projects focus on the power of transformation in large and small processes of change in urban areas that can be understood as urban resilience. |
| Barbara Predan: Disregarded Everyday Design – The Ability to Challenge Conventions Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Slovenia |
| The presentation will show that the task of design lies in empowering each of us. Consequently, the role of design – as one of the key builders of our environment – lies not only in redesigning the environment, but also in establishing the conditions for creating and encouraging new ways of thinking. |
| Conor McGrady: Imagined Alternatives: Transgressing Boundaries between Rural and Urban Burren College of Art, Ireland |
| Can the relationship between the urban and rural offer shared sites of learning? This presentation will examine resiliency in art education and community engagement in rural contexts, and address ways in which the fluid boundaries between rural and urban can provide models for alternative modes of pedagogical and artistic engagement. |
| Elly Van Eeghem: (Dis)placed Interventions: What makes this common landscape public space? KASK School of Arts Ghent, Belgium |
| Elly Van Eeghem illustrates how, since 2012, she is making documentary performances, as ways to incite discussion on local urban development processes. Individual audiovisual works have created contexts for collective workshops and installations in public space, in co-creation with local residents. From reflection to action! |
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Art and Social Cohesion: RAAF | Silvija Grusniene & Birute Zygaitiene: Social Responsibility-Centred Art Projects in Vilniaus kolegija/University of Applied Sciences Vilniaus kolegija / University of Applied Sciences, Lithuania |
| The study programmes implemented in the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries of Vilniaus kolegija/University of Applied Scienes fully respond to strategic priorities and provisions of Lithuanian sustainable development. The art projects within the study programme of Coiffure Design promote dissemination of ideas on social and ecological awareness that are delivered to the general public through an understandable visual emotional message. This has an influence on society development, contributes to preservation of our cultural identity and fosters tolerance. |
| Daniel Nicolae Djamo: Nomadaptation Bucharest National University of Arts, Romania |
| 'Nomadaptation' represents the PhD research study that questions the success of integration, focusing on the adaptation of the Romanian immigrants in France. The project proposes to reflect on the blending all of the different pigments that make up a society, creating a concert of the variantions. Since its formation, the European Union has greatly suffered because of primary fears, deeply embodied into all of us: the fear of the unknown, the unwillingness to have our space different then what we are used to seeing (taking as best example anyone’s intimate space), the refusal of having 'strangers' in our homes or the difficulty of honestly seeing the world of 'the other' through his eyes. In the last decade, there has been a huge increase of the far right movement across countries such as: the Netherlands, Hungary, Germany or Italy, that mostly grew out of these fears. |
| Diego Rebollo, Gill Foster: City, art and culture in the eyes of Lorca. ‘Bodas de Sangre’ (Blood Wedding) as a model of social resilience TAI University of the Arts Madrid, Spain |
| TAI University of the Arts Madrid and London South Bank University are developing a scenic project that revisits the iconography of Lorca's 'Bodas de Sangre' (Blood Wedding) with Madrid and London as an uniting axis between countries, students and artistic institutions, inspired by Lorca's message of freedom and social conscience. |
| Ashley Booth, Linda Lien: A Pictographic Theatre. When words exclude, pictograms include University of Bergen, Norway |
| When words fall short, how can pictograms bridge the gap between people with different cultural and social backgrounds? How can we design visual tools enabling people with challenges to communicate their own stories? |
| Michael Kelly: Developing comic book languages for critical analysis of power Glasgow School of Art, United Kingdom |
| By bringing possible worlds into dialogue with the actual world, comics have been a popular medium for social criticism. Kelly aims to further optimise this practice with a comic book enacting a material semiotics informed by Jacques Lacan’s analysis of power relations. |
| Saskia van de Ree: Remember, do not forget to live. The contribution of the arts to the co-creation of dementia friendly neighborhoods Hanze University of Apllied Sciences Groningen, Netherlands |
| What is the co-creative foundation of a cross arts and cross domains art and dementia practice? This question is related to a series of arts projects situated in one urban neighborhood, the Korrewegwijk in Groningen, the Netherlands. This co-creative process, as a methodological fundament, is mirrored to the public ambition of the ‘dementia-friendly neighborhood’. |
Instead of Pecha Kucha and parallel sessions afterward, delegates might choose the following on-site workshop, that will take place from 15:00 to 17:30 in the south of the city:
| Sjoerd Westbroek, Johanneke van der Ziel: The Children of the Toermalijn. The Academy at School Willem de Kooning Academy, Netherlands |
| On-site workshop at WdKA’s local project Toermalijn, in Rotterdam South, exploring ways of combining neighbourhood focused art education with the forging of new relationships and commitments. |
| Demis Quadri, Sara Bocchini, Sarah Marinucci, Yvonne Schmidt: DisAbility on Stage - A pilot project on inclusive dance and performer training in Switzerland Accademia Teatro Dimitri, Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland |
| The interdisciplinary research project DisAbility on Stage at the Institute for the Performing Arts and Film at Zurich University of the Arts explores theatre and dance practices by and with disabled artists in Switzerland, in cooperation with the Accademia Teatro Dimitri in Verscio, the Universities of Basel and Berne, several theatre and dance companies and festivals. |
| Andy Broadey, Richard Hudson-Miles: The Precarious University Workshop: The Resilient Art School University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom |
| Participants will cut up and re-configure passages from Jacques Rancière’s ‘Disagreement’ (2009) and Wendy Brown’s ‘Undoing the dēmos’ (2015) to explore relationships between ideology, pedagogy, and critique. This will lead into a discussion of the Art School as a site of social critique in which one might re-invent the dēmos. |
| Stefan Winter, Fee Altmann: Navigating Open Systems - Artistic Research Builds Resilience Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Germany |
| In its articulation with the unknown, artistic practice builds up a basic knowledge how to move in open systems, that change in breaks and leaps. Artistic research shares this navigation knowledge in order to foster innovation, to manage risk and to build the heterogeneous space of urban resilience. |
| Vikki Hill: Changing Mindsets: developing Growth Mindsets to address inequality and inclusivity in art and design higher education University of the Arts London, United Kingdom |
| An inclusive workshop that introduces the Changing Mindsets intervention to consider how we might challenge fixed notions of talent and intelligence in art and design education. How do we as arts educators create an inclusive pedagogy and address the limiting effects of implicit bias and stereotype threat? |
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Art and Economy: Blue City | Damien Helly: European Creative Hubs Leaders as Social DJs, Value Proposers and Resilience Architects British Council, France |
| The Creative Hubs leader is a new figure emerging in cities, often combining an entrepreneurial temper, a creative taste and addiction to activism. The consolidation of a European network of Creative Hubs Leaders will be instrumental in the development of resilient cities. |
| Donica Buisman: Learning how to create a new public (art) space for new dynamic times RAUM, Netherlands |
| How to go from a temporary to a structural cultural facility? Learn about the experimental and inclusive development of an artistic third place with RAUM. A public exhibition art square that researches an inclusive future urban realm. |
| Andreas Berg, Martin Lundell: The commercialisation of Oslo – Possibilities of resilience through graphic design and illustration Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway |
| Oslo National Academy of the Arts is the result of an amalgamation of five art schools that since 2010 have been located in an old canvas factory in Grünerløkka, a working class district in eastern Oslo – as a staged manifestation of Richard Florida’s dream of the beneficient creative class. Fifteen years after the publishing of 'The rise of the Creative Class', Florida reconsiders his ideas in 'The New Urban Crisis'. He notes that the creative class gives rise to urban growth, but at the same time it creates exclusivity and inequality. 'The winning cities are unpleasant for all but the very tallest', writes Florida. In this course, we ask ourselves which role graphic designers and illustrators, creative class's heirs, play in the development of Oslo. Do we have to be part of the problem - or can we provide solutions? |
| Deanna Herst: Art and Design in The Next Economy: speculative scenarios for real life innovations Willem de Kooning Academy, Netherlands |
| This presentation discusses how the department of Commercial Practices, Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam, explore the Next Economy to find possible new parameters for art and design education in times of rapid socio-economical changes. It will show examples and cases from the curriculum in 2018. |
| Janis Gailitis: Rīga Makerspace 2021 Art Academy of Latvia, Latvia |
| This presentation intends to give an insight into revitalization projects in Riga, Latvia, using as a point of observation the activities of the establishment of the "Riga Makerspace" in year 2021, organized by unique models of partnership between the Art Academy of Latvia, State Real Estate Agency, Riga School of Design and Art and the Ministry of Culture. Some aspects of Makerspace requirements are universal across workshops, others are more discipline specific, so this invites an obvious questions - How to challenge the status quo of Makespace in year 2021? What are requirements for the future technology workshops? What can policy-makers and urban leaders do to better facilitate creative ecosystem in the city? |
| Simon Kentgens, Florian Cramer: The Autonomous Fabric: Cultural self-defense in Rotterdam Willem de Kooning Academy, Netherlands |
| Rotterdam has a rich history of self-organised artist and activist practices, now threatened by rapid gentrification. The WdKA recognizes this fabric as a learning environment. How can these autonomous, DIY practices make themselves and their larger communities resilient? This presentation brings voices of Rotterdam’s Autonomous Fabric to the ELIA conference. |
Delegates will have the opportunity to choose one of the 3 parallel sessions taking place at the 3 different spaces below. They each consist of the following presentations:
| Mark Schotman, Maarten Jan van 't Oever: Exploring art, design and business mindsets for resilient cities Willem de Kooning Academy, Netherlands |
| By playing our board game Total View you will discover new possibilities for solutions that have been developed to design resilient cities. Many art and design solutions are strong in their design itself but can be even more valuable when they find their way into (new) economic realities. |
| David Bogen, Samuel Hoi, Gwynne Keathley: The city as a network of learning: Reframing the role of an urban art and design college Maryland Institute College of Art, USA |
| Many independent art colleges are urban institutions with histories of being vibrant, yet sometimes, insulated centers for arts education and cultural advancement. This presentation considers the value of a highly porous, partnered and outwardly-facing institution in which the 'sites' of college effort are geographically distributed and integrated with the city. |
| Adham Hafez, Adam Kucharski: ETMAC- The Extra Territorial Ministry of Arab Culture |
| ETMAC is a futuristic fictitious ministry of Arab culture, that produces strategies of resilience and support of diasporic Arab artists. |
| Florian Reichert: Resilience in the City: Eyes wide shut Bern University of the Arts, Switzerland |
| Artists gather in urbanistic contexts. That’s where a big part of them lives. That’s where they try to position there work. That’s where they connect. That’s where they obtain their information and thematic inputs for their work. Networks are build up and it seems that often closed networks of auto-celebration are created that do not relate anymore to a context of life in all it’s forms and manners in town, around town, and in “the space between” urbanistic agglomerations. |
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Art and Innovation: Katendrecht | Ivan Henriques: Symbiotic Machines for Space Exploration Willem de Kooning Academy, Netherlands |
| SyMSE aims to shift how we process our natural resources to find an equilibrium between natural and technological evolution. The project establishes a network of students and professionals with hybrid classes from the disciplines of life-sciences, engineering, art and design to rethink about the way we design Earth's landscape. |
| Manuel Irles, Xavier Moulin: Design for Transition EESAB, France |
| Since 2013, the EESAB in Brest has been conducting educational work and cross-disciplinary research for resilient design as part of its Master’s programme Design for Transition. Developed with the UBO Open Factory (university FabLab), it was instrumental in the participation of Brest in the Fab City project in 2017. |
| Chequita Nahar, Erik de Jong, Krien Clevis: Slow City Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Netherlands |
| 'Slow City' is a term, which refers to the different perspectives in which we want to manifest art education within Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts and Design. It is a reference to the concept of 'vertraagzaamheid' (taking time to slow down), specifying the way in which one wants to relate to a specific living and working environment. |
| Sophia Hadjipapa-Gee, Geert Vermeire: Silence in the city: a festival about walking, emptiness and intimacy European University Cyprus, Cyprus |
| The festival Urban Emptiness Nicosia explored the interconnection between walking and new media in digital and physical spaces in Nicosia, Cyprus and elsewhere. Artists from around the world came together for 10 days to investigate silence, intimacy and emptiness in the contemporary urban fabric through performances, walks and workshops. |
| Iris Schutten: Beyond Social, an innovative tool within the education of art & design Willem de Kooning Academy, Netherlands |
| Willem de Kooning Academy has developed an open platform researching social design. Social design is the focus one of WdKA’s interdisciplinary graduation profiles. The platform serves as a tool for research and publication within education, innovatively enhancing 21st-century skills like critical thinking, communication, collaboration and information-, media- & ICT-literacy. |
| Ermi van Oers: Living Energy Living Light, Willem de Kooning Academy, Netherlands |
| 'Living Light', a lamp which harvests its energy through the photosynthetic process of the plant. A design which shows the first step towards a future where plants will be part of our energy system. |
| Ulrika Kinn Svensson, Anne-Marije van der Bersselaar, Heleen de Hoon, Jan Grolleman: Transforming the Arts in Public Space Fontys School of Fine and Performing Arts, Netherlands |
| What responsibilities do next generation artists have in our future urbanized communities? How can educational structures adapt to fastpaced changes in society? Join this cross-section presentation of three educational initiatives that were designed to develop resilient artists, who are prepared for diverse and alternative art careers defined by their own ideas, craft and visions. |
ART AND INNOVATION: CIRCUS ROTJEKNOR
| Rosa Mármol Pérez, Isabel Soler Ruiz: Solar energy as social sculpture. The Eco-efficient art like creative techno-poetic ecosystem Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Granada, Spain |
| The human being starts to leave an irreversible footprint in the planet from an outside perspective to a totality conscience of being a part more of the ecosystem which we destroy. Sun provides us our main energy, consequently it is our main world heritage. Artist must protect it. Scientists, engineers and artists are working together in AST (Art- Science-Technology) laboratories to research about solar energy, to create eco-efficients urbans sites-specifics and to develop a new code to connect political-ecological will and social education. This presentation takes the concept defined by Joseph Beuys in 1982, 'social sculpture', to discuss about those artistically projects of AST laboratories, which re-define the objects of our social environment, using an eco-efficient solar technology, for a civic education. |
| Aparajita Dutta: Manifesto for the New Creativity Royal Academy of Art The Hague, Netherlands |
| Art education is where it starts. Art HEIs being the haven of expression and the bridge between the inner academic world and the outer ‘resilience city’ encompassing all youth – the future – and the old – the history. Art HEIs should innovate a manifesto for the new generation and future art education. |
| Ingrid Stoepker, Marijke Lips, Jordy Dik: Social change in society by Dancing Codarts, Netherlands |
| In this workshop, you will learn about the methodology: How to dance with minority groups in the society? You will be introduced to some good practices in Rotterdam, which involve dancing in elderly homes, working place for disabled people or dancing with multicultural women from the community. |
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Shifting Centres, Shifting Margins: Witte de With | Mart Kalm: Resilience of School, Resilience of City, Relocation of an Art Academy in a Capital City Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia |
| In the Capital of Estonia, Tallinn, the national Art Academy has had to relocate from the city centre to a gentrified, former working-class suburb. Is it a loss for the city centre? Does the gentrified suburb need an art school? What kind of resilience does it demand from the school? |
| Filip Hauser: Another Landscape Faculty of Fine Arts Brno, Czech Republic |
| ANOTHER LANDSCAPE - the project works with the cultural landscape around Šarovy village in the east Czech Republic. |
| François Duconseille, Jean-Christophe Lanquetin: Play>Urban, experimenting cities between margins and centers (Johannesburg, Strasbourg, Medellin...) HEAR / Strasbourg, France |
| Play>Urban is a collaborative project initiated in 2011 by two schools, HEAR Strasbourg and WITS Johannesburg, at the beginning the project was located between these cities. After a stop and a book, presenters launched a new project in a suburb of Strasbourg partially in link with a residency in Medellin. |
| Predrag Velinovic: Resilience and the City: City as the main character of students films Faculty of Dramatic Arts, University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia |
| As part of the master studies, Velinovic has introduced an exercise that students find very interesting and challenging. The main character of their film is – the city. Their task is to place the city as the central character: its architecture, urbanism, residents, particularities, changes. The films are without dialogue, with no narration to accompany the pictures, without heroes. Just the city as it is, under the weight of time. |
| Kurt Vanbelleghem: Being in or out of context, Mapping the cities of Sarasota (Florida) and Antwerp (Belgium) St Lucas School of Arts, Belgium |
| Over a period of 6 years, several groups of art & design students have been exploring and comparing the social amplitude of two particular cities, Antwerp (BE) & Sarasota (FL), from their particular national, cultural and educational point of view. An exercise in understanding how our cultural backgrounds influence our way of seeing and understanding locations. |
| Sabine Pollak: Learning from Gänserndorf. Artistic research in Urbanism. University of Art and Design Linz, Austria |
| Learning from Gänserndorf describes an artistic research about shifting margins between cities. Based on the study Learning from Las Vegas (1972) a small city near Vienna was explored through on-site interventions, films and more. What are possible futures of small cities? Which are the tools to work with? |
| Peter Sonderen: Art, THEORY, and RESILIENCE ArtEZ University of the Arts, Netherlands |
| In this workshop, delegates will discuss what role theory plays with regard to the development of resilience in the arts. The workshop will be lead by a research group of artists and theoreticians that is called the T-Lab. |
| Michelle Teran: Strategies of Reclaiming Norwegian Artistic Research Programme, Norway |
| This performance paper will introduce a series of works that span film, text, performance and public actions that center on the relations between places, materials and performative actions that are produced in the context of reclaiming. |
| Erika Vizbaraitė - Vaičiulienė: Movement workshop 'What If..?' Vilnius Kolegija / University of Applied Sciences, Lithuania |
| Creative body. Creative minds. Creative actions. This workshop invites all curious people for physical creative practice focused on theme 'WHAT IF..?', which maintains the question how to increase the creativity by the movement research when we grow older? |
| Rebecca Duclos: Introducing the Institute for Urban Futures: amplifying the work of others, supporting activist practice, engaging in affective inquiry, prototyping adaptive technologies Concordia University, Canada |
| This presentation/mapping exercise will use the work of The Institute for Urban Futures (IUF) in Montreal as a base for participants to collectively map their home institution's city-centric activities across three axes: radical activist practice, affective methods of inquiry, and the development of adaptive tools and technologies. |
| Christina Della Giustina : You Are Variations HKU University of the Art Utrecht, Slade School of Fine Art UCL; Netherlands and United Kingdom |
| Composed with water-data backed by research – courtesy Indian-Institute-of-Science, SEI and Stockholm-Environment-Institute, the artist Christina Della Giustina introduces the performance Neerinusiru, played at Bengaluru-Fantastic-Festival, India, on Dec 15-17 2017, by an ensemble of Carnatic & Hindustani musicians. The documentation of this headlining performance, which brings together artists, technologists, scientific researchers and the public in an ethereal moment, calls out the importance of water as city-wide ecological challenge. |
| Isolde Venrooy, Marlies van Hak: Walk ArtEZ Institute of the Arts, Netherlands |
| Walk set up by Buro Ruimte Rondom, with a group of participants in the direct surroundings of the Willem de Kooning Academy, in which already existing forms of resilience in the city are encountered and questioned on a small scale. |
