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Category Archives: Cultural Universals
In transitie
Samen met het team van Ruimtekoers verzamelen we ideeën voor een herkenbare ‘landmark’ om de zichtbaarheid van het winkelcentrum te vergroten. https://www.ruimtekoers.nl/programma/help-ons-drieslag-mooier-maken/
Zomeractie 2020
Subsidie uit het Noodfonds is deze week toegekend door het Ondernemersfonds Arnhem. Samen met lokale winkeliers van de Drieslag, bewoners Malburgen en het team van Ruimtekoers werken we bottom-up vanuit een integrale ontwerpbenadering richting het zichtbaar maken van de unieke culturele context dmv een zomeractie en een ruimtelijk plan voor een toekomstige landmark.
‘More Space’ Society
Op locatie vanuit Arnhem-Zuid in gesprek met Saskia van Stein & Martijn de Waal tijdens LIVECAST Pakhuis de Zwijger op 3 juni om 14 uur tijdens ‘This is not a simulation!’ over de ‘1,5 meter society’ en positionering van ontwerpers: https://dezwijger.nl/live
Tropenmuseum
Iedereen viert de liefde, maar wie heeft aandacht voor gebroken harten? En hoe werkt dat eigenlijk: rouwen om iemand die er nog is? Samen met Anne van der Weijden geef ik in het Tropenmuseum Amsterdam op 10 maart 2019 de workshop EX-IT over ritueel afsluiten. Heel je hart en doe de EX-it!
Reciprocity
Reciprocity for 2019: red envelop with Desiderata of Max Ehrmann & drink voucher to exchange 囍 囍 囍
Exploring Fieldwork
At the practice Cultural Diversity WdKA students observe and experience societal issues through immersing oneself in the neighbourhood Bospolder Tussendijken. Questions of identity and authenticity, migration, citizenship, transnational relations and myths of progress are at the heart of this program. One core aspect is exploring reciprocity when working within a specific geographical space in the city of Rotterdam. (Photo: Lisbeth Luft)
PhDArts
Celebrating 10 years PhDArts: How do we establish, sustain and nourish a vital research culture in the arts? With Keynote lecture by dr. Henk Oosterling – Art based research as hypocritical reflaction.
A Tale of Seven Planets
Bruno Latour at Zuiderkerk Amsterdam November 16th “A Tale of Seven Planets – An Exercise in Gaiapolitics”: “We live for the first time in a time when the earth responds to our actions as Gaïa, in which nature is no longer the background but acts itself. We live for the first time in a time when the story of Noah is the expression of the real need that prevails at the moment. If we develop such a new sensitivity, a new policy is possible.”
Why the World Needs …
Fruitful conference ‘Designing the future’ by opening boundaries (transdisciplinary working), offering Kula (exchange information) and building potlatch (connect to gift giving) with Sarah Pink, Jamer Hunt, Anna Kirah a.o. at ‘Why The World Needs Anthropologists’ Lisbon #wwna2018
Merkez Camii Mosque
Visiting the beautiful Merkez Camii Mosque at Deventer. Every first Saturday of the month they open their doors for everybody who’s curious. You get a nice impression of all the activities.
Studium Generale ArtEZ
Together with art programmer Anne van der Weijden & performance artist Najendra Caldera we organised a masterclass about house rules, performing new rituals at home. (Re)designing a ritual which evolves new meanings in daily routines by giving them symbolic content and deliver a performing tool to inspire people in innovative ways of enacting at home.
Smart Culture Conference
Smart Culture Working Conference pays special attention to four PhD projects of the NWO programme ‘PhD Research in the Arts’. NWO established this programme in 2010, in collaboration with the Mondriaan Foundation. The programme aims to support research in the arts as part of university practice. With this exposium, delegates, the PhD candidates and PhD graduate artists, can explore what the art and science trajectory yields.
Bias in Design
September & November 2018 I was invited by department Creative Business at University of Applied Science Hogeschool Utrecht to give two guest lectures for 200 students about Design & Diversity.
Mission Casablanca
October 2018 on a mission with Dutch-Moroccan vascular surgeons for NGO Sante Pour Tous to share knowledge with team of doctors (in training) at hospital Chu Ibn Rochd in Casablanca.
[UN]balanced
At Balance-Unbalance, a conference about art and design as catalysts to explore intersections between nature, science, technology and society, I joined the workshop of Barbara Asselbergs, Generating Urban Values: dialogues in Urban Space.
Building and Dwelling
According to sociologist Richard Sennett intergration is a bad idea. We do not have to think the same thing. If only we can work together.
Why Anthropology Matters
Tim Ingold’s manifesto for a future anthropology ‘Anthropology, why it matters’ is a book for the coming generation: ‘Anthropologists study with people, rather then making studies of them. Anthropologists have shown how principles of giving and receiving are the core of everyday life.’
Sante Pour Tous
As board member of NGO Santé Pour Tous I’ll accompany Marocain-Dutch medical team this year to Tanger, Nador & Casablanca. Together we’re working on a campaign to build awareness for www.santepourtous.nl
Contemporary Rituals
Inspired by social phenomena in public space WdKA students were challenged to develop a contemporary ritual evolving new meanings in daily routines. Forty students designed a performing tool with symbolic content and activated participants in innovative ways of cooperation.
Unmaking and ruination
Unmaking and ruination in design anthropology: can we speak of unmaking in form of design? Creative de(con)struction instead of production? Making colonial pain visible and tangible in ethnographic collections. Curating future looking into the (euro-centric) past. Inspiring papers presented at ‘Art, Materiality and Representation’ conference in British Museum.
UNSTRANGE
What if the exchanges we call economic were part of a much larger, far older and more diffuse system of exchange? What if value were defined not by accumulation but by circulation, and circulation not by supply & demand but by honor, glory and beauty? Categories who are linked to gift and sacrifice. Students WdKA created social tools that gave direction to conversations by approaching unknown people.
Design + Anthropology
Design + Anthropology represents a milestone in the creation of a new and important field of artistic and intellectual inquiry. Christine Miller explores the evolution of two disciplines and touches on the invention & diffusion of new practices. Design Anthropology is an emerging transdiciplinary field characterized by an approach that integrates anthropological methods, theory, frameworks and critique with design principles and practices to address a wide range of complex system-level problems facing societies, institutions and organizations.
ArtEZ WinterLAB
Rituelen zijn scharniermomenten van emoties waar waarden op expressieve wijze tot uitdrukking komen. Tijdens WINTERLAB onderzoek ik samen met predikant Martin Jans en 27 studenten de betekenis van een ritueel, bouwstenen waarmee rituelen ontstaan en welke fases worden doorlopen tijdens het uitoefenen van een ritueel.
Moving Moengo
January 2018, together with filmmaker Magda Augusteijn, I’ll do research by mapping rituals as conversation pieces of different population groups [Maroon, Amerindian, Hindustanis, Creoles, Chinese, Javanese] living together in Moengo, Suriname. Art students of Nola Hatterman Art Academy in Paramaribo will create cultural probe toolkits for the inhabitants. The project Moving Moengo has been granted by Creative Industries Fund.
Local & global rituals
Workshop about rituals at AKV | St.Joost ‘Living with people who differ is the most urgent challenge facing civil society today. We tend socially to avoid engaging with people unlike ourselves, and modern politics encourages the politics of the tribe rather than of the city. Richard Sennett discusses in his book ‘Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation’ why this has happened and what might be done about it.’
Lecture VU & ArtEZ
Tuesday November 21th two lectures take place: in the morning at ArtEZ Fine Art & Design Education Arnhem and afternoon at VU faculty Anthropology, Amsterdam. Both lectures I’ll introduce the connection between Design and Anthropology.
Minor Cultural Diversity
From October 2017 I’m lecturing Cultural Diversity / New Urban Dynamics for third year students minor Social Practices at Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam. The practices focus on art and design that impacts societal issues by (re)designing processes, interactions and relationships, involving participants in the design process.
Homo Ludens
On my way to give a lecture at PLAYSPACE about daily life observations for students WdKA Gamification. The location is in one of the inspiring streets of Rotterdam (West-Kruiskade) which reminds me of Constant’s quote: ‘Homo ludens impinges on his environment: He interrupts, changes, intensifies; he follows paths and in passing, leaves traces of his presence everywhere.’
Provocation Pieces
Together with Deanna Herst I gave a lecture about generative design research. During one day students New Frontiers of academy Willem de Kooning in Rotterdam build Provocation Pieces to provoke and trigger information of their community.
Cultural probes toolkit
Studenten Design AKV | St.Joost Breda ontwerpen Cultural Probe toolkits voor hun respondenten tijdens de workshop Design Antropologie. Een generatieve onderzoeksmethode van Bill Gaver die zich liet inspireren door de interventies van de Internationale Situationisten.
Moving Design
From september I’ll lecturing a new course called Moving Design – human matters in the world – at Graphic Design department ArtEZ University of the Arts Zwolle.
Hidden Hammams
Voor de Subjectieve Atlas van Annelys de Vet heb ik onlangs negen authentieke hammams bezocht. Mevrouw Saedi, uitbaatster badhuis El Maghrab: “Ik wil graag meer Europeanen in mijn hamam, maar de drempel is zo hoog. Ik denk dat ze bang zijn voor het grote cultuurverschil. Terwijl dat cultuurverschil achter de klapdeurtjes bij de ingang meteen vervaagt. De badgasten komen vaak ingepakt in allesbedekkende gewaden binnen, maar als ze even later in de hammam zitten, valt het immense cultuurverschil zelfs niet meer te vermoeden”. © Brussel Deze Week
Master Education in Arts
Onlangs nam ik mijn 2e master in ontvangst. Na Sandberg in 1999 nu een master in Kunsteducatie voor het stimuleren van mensgericht creëeren binnen het HBO designonderwijs. Met toespraak van lector Emiel Heijnen, die Pablo Helguera citeerde.
Design a Ritual
Tijdens de seminar ‘Design a Ritual’ aan de HKU werd onderzoek gedaan naar de bouwstenen waarmee rituelen ontstaan en welke fases worden doorlopen tijdens het uitoefenen van een ritueel.
Art of Solidarity
Today we organized a workshop ‘Art of Solidarity’ in De Doelen Rotterdam where 100 Palestinian kids created new designs for a keffiya to dance and show solidarity with equal rights for all #MostWantedJustice
Participerend observeren
Student Vera IJzelenberg, eindexamen grafisch ontwerpen kunstacademie St.Joost, doet onderzoek naar hoe het is om als moslima met hijab door het leven te gaan. Voor een week draagt ze zelf een hijab en probeert zo naast interviews en participerend observeren te kijken vanuit een ander perspectief: graphicmountain
Workshops Palestina
During our fieldtrip to research new ways to bring Palestine’s children’s rights to your attention, we found inspiration by all the positive and beautiful energy of 50 young people in Ramallah, Hebron and Nablus who joined our workshops. The workshops were initiated by Tadamun & DCI building awareness for children rights in Palestine.
Bar Lonely
Invited by Call for Loneliness I’m doing research called Rituals for Loneliness by connecting people in different countries, different bars and different cultures. Looking for specific rituals people are creating to give meaning to their loneliness. Check for more inspiration: http://vooreenzaamheid.nl/
Guest lecture WdKA
September 2016 I gave a guest lecture about Rituals & Design Anthropology at Willem de Kooning minor Gamification WdKA, Rotterdam. We discussed the meaning of rituals in society from personal, local to global perspectives based on the three ‘R’s – Rituals, Relations and Restrictions – of Taiye Selasi.
Power & Care Dialogue
Power and Care was a 3 day Mind & Life Dialogue [September, 9, 10, 11th 2016] of leading experts with His Holiness the Dalai Lama at BOZAR Brussels. The Dialogue includes perspectives of psychology, ecology, ethology, anthropology, neuroscience, contemplative religious & spiritual traditions, economics, society, personal commitment and global responsibility. Theo Sowa: ‘bring care back into economics, we can have benefits of helping others’.
Visuele antropologie
De documentaire reeks Birth Day & Wedding Day van Lieve Blancquart wordt komende tijd op donderdag NPO2 getoond.
Universele behoefte
Human Universals van antropoloog Brown is een interessante combinatie met overgangsrituelen om het dialoog over gelijkheid en onderling respect te bevorderen. ‘Challenging the assumption that human behavior is primarily determined by culture, anthropologist Brown contends that certain behavioral traits are common to human beings everywhere.’
Human Universals
De 67 Human Universals van antropoloog Donald Brown is interessante materie om te visualiseren. Culturele patronen die universeel bekend zijn onder alle mensen. Als stimulans naast groeiende polarisatie het dialoog open te houden. Waar vinden we elkaar? Hier beknopt zijn verhaal https://youtu.be/HNJSQAL0sEo
