The Antwerp Zoo has been chosen as the pilot location for a meeting place to rediscover nature in the center of a modern city. People look for nature and thus create places for such encounters in cities: a public garden, a botanical garden, a zoological garden. Life has always been subject to the limitations …

Interculturele dialoog in het (hoger) kunstonderwijs

Studiedag 2017 KDOV

Presentation research in colloquium The Objects of Art and Art History

Over the past fifteen to twenty years we have witnessed Dutch and European higher art education become increasingly more international, a development that is reflecting globalisation in the art world in general. The artists we work with in many of our institutes and (master) programmes come from a diversity …

Presentatie van promotieonderzoek in thematische sessie: Crossing Borders

Presentatie van het PhD-onderzoek Global Encounters at a Dutch MFA aan de Art Department van UCU. Gepresenteerd t.g.v. het uitwisselingsproject Parallel Portraits tussen Academie Minerva en UCU.

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To what extent do art students profit from cultural diversity within their group?

The broad field of environmental ethics, animal welfare, animal liberation, and animal rights literature indicate that all encounters between humans and animals are ethically charged. In this article, I shall examine how environmental ethics or animal welfare/rights/liberation literature translate into …