African photography has emerged as a significant focus of research and scholarship over the last twenty years, the result of a growing interest in postcolonial societies and cultures and a turn towards visual evidence across the humanities and social sciences. At the same time, many rich and fascinating …

This booklet is a short reflection on the workshop activities by the research group, Popular culture Sustainability and Innovation (PSI), of the Hanze University in Groningen for the CCC Reloaded: CREALAB project over the last one and half years. Based on a series of explorative workshops this booklet …

Bildung can be seen as a pedagogy of Interruption that opens up a “concern for publicness” (Biesta 2011) This in order "to disclose the identity of the agent, and to actualize our capacity for freedom. To perform what is “infinitely improbable”. (Arendt 1958) The function of such education is Subjectification: …

In het project 'Ik zie, ik zie..' is de dementerende medemens een verre ander voor de kunstenaarstudenten. Om deze verre ander te ontmoeten is het nodig in jezelf te graven; vanzelfsprekendheden te ondervragen en de ander diep in de ogen te kijken. Waar ben je? Hoe kan ik je kennen en hoe kan jij mij …

This paper will focus on the role of artists and designers as agents of change in sustainability innovation. We will analyse the characteristics of this role on the basis of a review of literature that discusses various concepts, methodologies and strategies applied by artists and designers in innovation …

In dit artikel (en keynote) schetst Nigten enkele grote veranderingen in onze samenleving en dagelijks leven en hoe dit samenhangt met onze kijk op techniek. Zij signaleert een verschuiving van techniek gestuurde innovatie naar innovatie door en met de eindgebruiker en hoe dit zich verhoudt tot technisch …

The Artist Organisations International conference, organised by Florian Malzacher, Jonas Staal and Joanna Warsza, took place in Berlin’s HAU theatre from 9 to 11 January 2015. The organisers emphasised how it seems that more and more activist artists are creating organisational structures that increase …

The Autumn 2015 edition is a special issue of non-fiction and artwork on the subject of technê and technology. This issue confronts the difficult questions of our time: Where are these tools and technologies leading us? What does it mean for the natural world and our own humanity? And how do we live …

Presentatie Arts Based Research. Hoe worden artistieke strategieën bij het doen van onderzoek ingezet? Welke onderzoeksmethodieken zijn nodig om ruimte te geven aan het niet-weten en het onverwachte? Hoe kunnen onderzoekers hun artistieke kwaliteiten inzetten en in welke fases van het onderzoeksproces? …

Introduction to the Expert Meeting of November 21, 2014.Photography is by nature a medium that bridges distances in time and space. It is indexical in its nature to the object and it kind of speaks back to the researcher.