The annual HIPUganda exhibition at Makerere University Art Gallery 2015 was dedicated to the presenting work of Musa Katuramu and Elly Rwakoma, respectively Ebifananyi 2 and Ebifananyi 3. These presentations build on other experiments to present photographs in spaces.

The third book of the Ebifananyi series, Ebishushani III – All the Tricks, delves into the life of Elly Rwakoma who ran photostudio studio and was a presidential photographer as well as a social worker and a businessman. Ebishushani III takes of from one particular image that, due to various circumstances, …

De programmeur als kunstenaar. In deze presentatie breek ik een lans voor de gedachte dat het dagelijks werk van de software-engineer zich beter laat vergelijken met dat van een (autonoom) kunstenaar dan dat van een (eenvoudige) ambachtsman. Ik doe dat aan de hand van een viertal eigenschappen: persoonlijkheid, …

Art as a public pedagogy. Art can be used as a tool for social intervention in the neighborhood. What are the benefits of the arts? What are interesting examples of comtemporary art intervention and can we understand art as a public pedagogy?

De kunsten als een speler in veranderingsprocessen. Kunstenaars zien schoonheid en betekenis waar 'gewone mensen' die niet zien. En daarom kan een kunstenaar ons gewone stervelingen leren kijken naar datgene dat niet recht in ons blikveld wordt geplaatst. Zo kijkt een kunstenaar als Bart Lodewijks naar …

Community forestry is a way to combine forest conservation with economic development of forest depending communities. In the Pacific zone of northern Peru, the rural population heavily relies on the endemic dry forest ecosystem as a source of firewood, timber and as grazing area. Bad management, overuse …

Study the effects of repeated harvest activities with an Anderson biobaler in natural willow rings around Saskatchewan prairie marshes, on the regeneration characteristics of willow and determine management tactics that increase the efficientcy of the system.

In this lecture Nigten talks about processpatching where a range of methods and approaches are loosly combined. This approach is well known from art and design practice and is a key concept in Nigten's ideas about the role of artists and designers can play as agents of change in trans- and interdisciplinary …

This paper argues that a first step in finding a sustainable solution for the pressing global issue of ‘waste’, is to consider waste a value attribution rather than a material condition. Doing so means a shift in focus from finding more efficient ways to ‘clean up the mess’ to changing the way in which …

Academy of the People is a project which ran from December 2012 to June 2013, in which students from Minerva Art Academy in Groningen developed critical site-specific artworks in the social environments of their research interests: in primary schools,religious centres and even police stations. In each …