FREEHOUSE: RADICALIZING THE LOCAL

FREEHOUSE RADICALIZING THE LOCAL

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM, WORKSHOPS AND DELIBERATIONS

ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS JANUARY 15 – 17, 2014

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RADICALIZING THE LOCAL

F R E E H O U S E : R A D C A L I Z I N G T H E L O C A L

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INTERNATIONAL CLOSING SYMPOSIUM OF THE

FREEHOUSE ART PROJECT ON CO-OPS AS AN

ORGANISATIONAL FORM IN ORDER TO COMBINE

vALUE DETERMINATION, LOCAL qUALITIES,

ORGANISATION, ART, ECONOMY, INITIATIvE AND

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RADICALIZING THE LOCALFreehouse has focused since 1998 on the micro-urbanism emerging in small communities across the city. The project is based on inclusive urban development through community participation and self-organisation and on co-operative cultural production as a means for economic and social growth.

In 2008 Freehouse became involved in the development of the Afrikaanderwijk in the south of Rotterdam. It tested new plans for the market and successfully setup several communal workshops. In order to secure the gathered capital and qualities for its inhabitants, Freehouse developed a skill-based Neighbourhood Co-op that will take over its functions s as of 2014.

Freehouse is a project initiated by Jeanne van Heeswijk and is made possible in collaborations with local and international experts. This symposium is made possible with the support and collaboration of the Mondriaan Fund, Creative Industries Fund NL, Stadsontwikkeling Gemeente Rotterdam, Stichting DOEN and AIR.

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Since we’re not able to accommodate all who expressed interest in attending, we will be tweeting live updates from the conference and allowing people to interact remotely via Twitter using #‎fhrtl (for FreeHouse: Radicalizing TheLocal).

See the website for update information and livestreaming:wwww.radicalzingthelocal.com

Internet access network: Wijkwaardehuis GASTEN, password: wijk-web


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Since its inception in 1999, Freehouse has created space for encounter, both literally as well as metaphorically. It stimulates local inhabitants and shopkeepers, youngsters, artists and designers to exchange knowledge, experience and ideas. The connection of cultural with economic capital results in co-productions that mutually benefit participants socially and economically. Moreover, the resulting products also make the underlying cultural process visible.

Inspired skill can powerfully lead people’s development. Unfortunately, Rotterdam does not always take the creative potential of its inhabitants seriously, especially in the South of the city. From 2008 onwards, Freehouse therefore has applied its approach to the Afrikaanderwijk. Economic sustainability is aimed through co-operative cultural production. And inclusive urban development is achieved through community participation and self-organisation.

As the neighbourhoods surrounding of the Afrikaanderwijk are being redeveloped with middle class dwellings, Freehouse worked towards making the existing inhabitants share in the economic benefits of the redevelopment. Despite diminishing public funds for the Afrikaanderwijk, Freehouse has been able to intensify its activities and to grow its organisation. It tested new plans for the market and successfully set up several communal workshops. As a result, the neighbourhood and its market are becoming a vibrant community again and the area was put on the map as a lively spot for cultural production, both nationally and internationally. In order to secure the accumulated capital and qualities for its inhabitants, Freehouse developed a skill-based neighbourhood co-op that will continue its work in 2014.

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WORKSHOP LOCATIONS BOEREN IN ZICHT Pretorialaan 10 Friedhelm Veldhuijzen offers products from local farmers and fishermen. Spices, vegetables, bread, meat and fish will be delivered at your door. Boeren in zicht is one of the newer entrepreneurs in the area who combines a web shop with a regular store.

CAFE AKDENIZ Pretorialaan 6424-hour Afrikaanderwijk all in one spot: Cafe Akdeniz is one of the ‘dinosaurs’ in the area. The kitchen serves food all night. Rush hour is definitely not during the day and actually daylight never really enters… They are always open for new ideas and activities for the neighbourhood.

DE ZUIDERLING Paul Krugerstraat 91aDe zuiderling is a new and local exchange coin for South Rotterdam. One zuiderling stands for 30-minute’s time. It’s about investing talents and making use of the talents of others. Their office is located directly next to the market square.

MERAM Afrikaanderplein 2 Meram is a chain of restaurants in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. They offer a large variety of authentic Turkish cuisine and are famous for their hospitality. With its innovations, Meram strives to be an example for the restaurant business. They are deeply routed in Dutch society, but also keep a close relation to Turkey and its craftsmen.

NEIGHBOURHOOD WORKSHOP Paul Krugerstaat 147 In the Neighbourhood Workshop fashion production is combined with design and education. Amateurs and professionals collaborate and exchange skills. Local inhabitants have knowledge of materials and master techniques that are important and interesting for contemporary designers. By actively using this knowledge and techniques they will be passed on and preserved for the future. Participants are involved in the whole production process, from design to end product.

COOPERATIvE STORE OF GOODS AND vALUES Pretorialaan 141Since 2013 the Cooperative Store of Goods and Values is a meeting place for production, presentation, sale, services and knowledge exchange. Starting point is the quality already present in the area. It has become the heart and brain of alternative economical, social and cultural development in the south of Rotterdam. Located in a vacant monumental building, in the centre of the community, it forms a network of cultural producers, production spaces, shops and active inhabitants. This cooperative organisation combines a market space, a knowledge centre and a shopping mall. It is a neighbourhood service centre and information point at once.

NEIGHBOURHOOD KITCHEN Pretorialaan 141The goal of the Neighbourhood Kitchen is to highlight the Afrikaanderwijk as an area where home cooks make the best dishes and unique cooperation’s are possible between inhabitants and shopkeepers.In keeping production local, the social and economic independence of the inhabitants and shopkeepers is actively stimulated. As such, the Neighbourhood Kitchen forms an important link in shaping of the area’s image.

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NINA’S LUNCHROOM Pretorialaan 14aNina Daal has been running residential hotel Kus & Sloop (Kiss & Demolisch) in the Afrikaanderwijk since 2012, but the ambitious Nina wanted more. Recently her dream came true: a unique Antillean lunchroom combined with the lobby of her hotel. Every one is welcome for coffee and the daily changing specialities. From pan frances with chees or ham or salada di crab or bakijouw.

SNACKBAR PRETORIA Pretorialaan 72 – 74Snackbar Pretoria is one of the older snack bars in the area. It is famous for their roti and good atmosphere. It has both a Surinam section and a Halal section. The fresh food daily attracts customers from way outside the neighbourhood.

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DAY 1HOST DAY 1 Matteo Lucchetti (project visible)

INTRODUCTION

On Day 1 of the Radicalizing the Local international symposium we are going to address a set of recurring topics that have surely been part of the fundamental questions that have been raised over the ten years life of the Freehouse, which we are about to see parting in favor of a new organization form that will step in the neighborhood and its complex local dynamics. On the etymological side the vocabulary that fed the narrative of such a project, and of the other similarly community-based ones, will be scrutinized through a digression on the genealogy of the philosophical deconstruction of the word community, as seen from the perspective of psychoanalysis and cultural theory studies, so to facilitate a common understanding of the instituent nature of the community. Words like cooperation and collective action will be also looked over, for their capacity to suggest a methodological choice that doesn’t rely on the canonical forms of the market or the aid of the State. Can these two terminologies suggest a temporary independency from the traditional forms of organization, or rather can they represent a viable, constant, inspiration in re-thinking, through a plurality of voices, the bureaucratized forms of governance that our societies are stuck in? With similar concerns in mind it will be presented the idea for a Transnational Republic of Choice, where the richness that is left out of the Nation-State narrative can get together by capitalizing the advantages of a globalized world.

What is a radicalized local in the end? If the local, the locus, the place, is already, in its origin, so deeply connected to the roots of a specific place, how can we radicalize it even more? Can the radicalized local become then a critical being in motion, truly able to connect subjects through globalization, in virtue of a less abstract understanding of the public sphere, its economies and its multifaceted human side?

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SPEAKER 1 Henk Oosterling (rotterdam vakmanstad)

CRITICAL REFERENT 1 Rasmus Ugilt (aarhus university)

TITLE Radicalizing The Local: New Organizational Forms

SYNOPSIS

How radical can the local become? Is the global rooted in the local? Is it that simple? Or is the local an inbetween, an ‘inter’ between the global and something else? Is this ‘something else’ coming to the fore once we radicalize the local? These questions disclose a perspective that reveals the micropolitical foundation of new organizational forms. Rotterdam Skillcity has been working in neighbourhoods in the South of Rotterdam for the past 10 years focusing on skills and craftsmanship. For RVS skill is will. But, as Richard Sennet emphasizes in his latest book Together, the most precious skill that founds all others is cooperation. Rotterdam Skillcity’s basic strategy accepts the educational value of this basic skill and has formulated a new E.P.I.C. on the city: Education, Participation (integration) Communication. In his presentation Oosterling will sketch both the practical and philosophical implications of this strategy.

SPEAKER 2 Dorothee Richter (oncurating)

CRITICAL REFERENT 2 Eva Visser (kenniscentrum creating 010)

TITLE The Imaginary and the Community: Deliberations

Following the Deconstructivist Challenge of the Thinking of Community

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Even after the waning of the debates on communitarianism and liberalism as conducted intensively above all in the political sciences and political philosophy, discussion about community in general is evidently not diminishing. a major role has been played by endeavours to deconstruct the concept of community which took as their point of departure a discussion between Jean-Luc Nancy and Maurice Blanchot and were then continued beyond the borders of France in the Italian speaking regions as well, above all by Giorgio Agamben and Roberto Esposito. Since the translation of être Singulier Pluriel – Nancy’s chief thematic work –, if not before, discussions on the concept of community have also resumed in the German-speaking regions, if under a different omen and with other connotations. Beyond the

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limits of this field, however, a further, more recent, thread of discussion can also be discerned, likewise zeroing in on phenomena of community. Following a shared article with Lars Gertenbach on this topic, I want to link the debate on community with psychoanalytical and cultural-theoretical deliberations, and assayed to describe the characteristics of community-building anew on the basis of a constitutive element of the imaginary or fantasmatic.

SPEAKER 3 Georg zoche (transnational republic)

CRITICAL REFERENT 3 Sue Bell Yanks (social practice)

TITLE Open Source Citizenship, Currency and Identity

Management for Global Democracy

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The United Transnational Republics is the first known “3GO”: a Global Governmental Grassroots Organisation working towards the democratisation of the globalised world we find ourselves in. Democracy as we know it since the last two centuries only takes place within nation-states. At the same time globalisation happens globally, outside of national definitions, legislation or agreements. Obviously, there is no democratic representation of the individual on a transnational, global level. This leads to inherently undemocratic processes within globalisation. Currently, outside of the nation-states only consumer and national interests are being represented. Unfortunately, both our national as well as our consumer interests are in conflict with our global interest: the preservation of our environment, world peace, establishment of transnational legislation, etc.In order to realise democracy on a global level, the current political system needs to be expanded by one more federal level of representation: Citizen of a city, of a country, of a Transnational Republic. In this system all citizens of the world will be represented by their Transnational Republic of choice; together, the various Transnational Republics are forming The United Transnational Republics, where they are representing their citizens’ transnational interests – just as the various nation-states are assembling into The United Nations representing national interest.

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In order to assure the independence of The United Transnational Republics from the nation-states and in order to establish money as the “fourth power” of democracy, the Central Bank of The United Transnational Republics is issuing the transnational citizen currency payola. A very similar global monetary system (the bancor) was the British proposal promoted by Sir Meynard Keynes at the Bretton Woods Conference of 1944. Unfortunately, the US managed to clandestinely change the wording of the Bretton Woods contract before it was signed, thereby installing the US dollar as world key currency through what might be described as one of the biggest frauds of the last century.

SPEAKER 4 Tine De Moor (institutions for collective action)

CRITICAL REFERENT 4 Ethel Baraona (dpr-barcelona)

TITLE Homo Cooperans

Institutions for collective action and the compassionate society

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Parallel to the current social, economic, and ecological crisis, new institutions for collective action are rapidly developing. In domains where the government withdraws and the market fails, citizen collectives in care, energy, infrastructure, etc. that are set up by the public offer an accessible and affordable alternative at the local level. The media and scientists sometimes speak of a revolution taking place in our society. But is this true? Is this a turning point where the whole society is flipped upside down?Tine De Moor indicates, through a thousand years of history, in what way the current developments differ from earlier boosts in the development of institutions for collective action. Just like today, similar periods of growth for these type of institutions, were preceded by periods of accelerated development of the free market.As such, they constitute a correction mechanism and can play an important role in society, as a third governance model) alongside market and state.De Moor calls for institutional diversity, and the use of our knowledge about the functioning of institutions from the past to make the current trend sustainable.


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DAY 2HOST DAY 2 Michael Birchall (university of wolverhampton)

INTRODUCTION

This panel presents a range of perspectives focusing on new economic forms and how changing the way we work, consume and produce may offer alternatives and change the systems of control. Under the influence of globalization, information systems, and the changing roles of economic and political governance, has transformed advanced capital, producing new situations, where an increasing number of workers have become engaged in precarious labour. Post-Fordism expanded with the revolts of 1968 and the fiat strikes of the 1970s; immaterial labour began to constitute this hegemony for all forms of production, including material and agricultural labour. Paolo Virno describes a number of signs of post-Fordist capitalism that mark radical changes in developed nations production systems relation to labor in the last 40 years. He states that, “post-fordism has annulled or complicated the traditional marxist correlation between the workers labour time and the degree of his or her exploitation”1. As labour is de-materialized and the division of labour in industrial production erodes, capital not only occupies the working hours during which products or goods are produced,It absorbs all of the workers time, as well as their existence. This exploitation can be seen in the labour of cultural workers – curators, artists, architects, designers, musicians, actors. These workers have become experts at balancing intermittent bouts of barely profitable creative work with additional routine jobs in the creative and service industries. Therefore, as cultural workers, are we able to devise solutions to the problems associated with advanced capitalism? Can work itself be the answer, since it has already altered our lives so much. As Kathy Weeks describes: “Work is not only a site of exploitation, domination, and antagonism, but also where we might find the power to create alternatives on the basis of subordinated knowledges, resistant subjectivities and emergent models of organisation”2.

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infrastructures? Are cultural producers expected to contribute to this recovery, using entrepreneurial strategies favoured in the “big society”? Has it become conceivable during this period to imagine ourselves less dependent on conventional monetary systems, what are the alternatives to this? Are local, small scale operations the answer to the failings of multi-national corporations?

1. Paulo Virno, A grammar of the multitude. 2004.

2. Kathi Weeks, The Problem With Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics and Postwar Imaginaries, 2004.

SPEAKER 1 Jaromil/Denis Roio (naba, milan)

CRITICAL REFERENTS 1 Enric Duran Girait & Raquel Benedicto

(cooperativa integral catalana) with Britt Jurgensen

(homebaked community landtrust and co-operative bakery)

TITLE Bitcoin: Hype or Reality?

Scenarios to Come in Digital Innovation

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Bitcoin is a decentralized system of digital authentication that facilitates the circulation of value on the Internet without the presence of any intermediaries, a characteristic that has often gained it the definition of digital cash or crypto currency: its triple-signed blockchain of contracts is used to record payment transactions. Since the early 2011 until now what has driven Bitcoin to its present popularity is its deployment as a decentralized financial system for transactions. It may be claimed that Bitcoin is one of the few grass-roots projects that makes its participants rich, but it may be argued it does so also by money laundering. Overall it seems that we are witnessing the emergence of a disruptive innovation for payment systems, analogue to what VOIP is for the telecommunication industry. The goal of this keynote is to step back from the results that are immediately evident in Bitcoin’s emergence and analyze this technical discovery with technoetic lenses: using an open mind and avoiding economic analysis, we’d like to envision what we can expect to come that can benefit society.


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Bitcoin’s line of progress won’t affects just the payment processing industry, it could have many more fields of application: the energy market, digital manufacturing, authentication, art and even governance.

SPEAKER 2 Pelin Tan (mardin artuklu university)

CRITICAL REFERENT 2 Silvia Simoncelli (brera art academy)

TITLE Relational Surplus and Its Dissemination in Art

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What are the engagement methodologies, autonomy and search for alternative livelihoods, model of dissemination of surplus in such practices? I would like to give examples of several different art practices from Athens to Kyoto that try to create a non-capitalist time/space organization as well as contributions to resistance movements in urban space.

SPEAKER 3 Eli Feghali & Rachel Plattus (new economy coalition)

CRITICAL REFERENT 3 Christopher Robbins (ghana thinktank)

TITLE Spaces of Participation: Stories of Economic Democracy displacing

Corporate Rule

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This presentation explores the use of New Economic Forms:(1) In service of social movements(2) As parallel institutions for increasing access to and participation in the

economy, and (3) As a means of creating more resilient communities.We argue that institutions of economic democracy can play any of these three vital roles, and offer pertinent examples from our work with the New Economy Coalition, a network of more than sixty organizations working in various ways to grow a more just and sustainable economic system. We explore questions of scale in the hope of demonstrating that efforts to effect economic system change have much to learn from the local.


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SPEAKER 4 Pedro Medina (yo creo en colombia)

CRITICAL REFERENT 4 Jan Jongert (superuse studios)

TITLE Changing the Mind of a Nation

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My focus will be on our role as yo creo en colombia to help change the non-propositive, destructive, self-demeaning dialogue that existed in Colombia pre-1999 and create a new way for Colombians to see ourselves and relate to our own people. I use the example of el festival del trueque, which we do in La Minga, to exemplify how when you change the context, create contagion around new ideas, and generate powerful experiences, people make better decisions, one of which is to trust their own.


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DAY 1 WED. 15 JAN.

NEW ORGANIZATIONAL FORMSFORMAT Short presentations, workshops, and feedback sessions

SCHEDULE

09.30 ArrivAl And Coffee

09.45 dAy’s WelCome by host: Matteo Lucchetti (project visible)

10.00 PRESENTATIONS each 30 min. followed by 15-min. discussion with

critical referent

10.00 – 10.45 1ST PRESENTATION

Henk Oosterling (rotterdam vakmanstad)

Critical referent: Rasmus Ugilt (aarhus university)

10.45 – 11.30 2ND PRESENTATION

Dorothee Richter (oncurating)

Critical referent: Eva Visser (kenniscentrum creating 010)

11.30 – 11.45 short BreAk

11.45 – 12.30 3RD PRESENTATION

Georg zoche (transnational republic)

Critical referent: Sue Bell Yank (social practice)

12.30 – 13.15 4TH PRESENTATION

Tine De Moor (institutions for collective xction)

Critical referent: Ethel Baraona (dpr-barcelona)

13.15 – 14.00 lunCh BreAk

14.00 – 14.15 Introduction to the afternoon session (host)

14.15 – 14.30 Setting the agenda (critical referents): listing questions generated by

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14.30 – 15.45 WORKSHOPS

4 sessions, held at the same time at various locations around

the neighborhood, each centered on one of the morning presentations

Neighbourhood Workshop

Meram

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Nina’s Lunchroom

Each session would be facilitated by the Critical Referent from

the respective presentation, who’d prepare questions for the

feedback session afterwards, assisted by a reporter and a

member of the Freehouse group, who’d keep and write up a

record of the workshop

REPORTERS Ailbhe Murphy & Ciaran Smyth (vagabond reviews),

Elke Krasny (academy of fine arts vienna), Susanne Bosch (artist),

Carolina Rito (curator)


16.00 – 17.30 GENERAL FEEDBACK SESSION

(Moderated by host)

10-min. presentation of each workshop (questions for discussion by

critical referents) followed by 45-min. general discussion

17.30 dAy’s Closure (host) followed by drinks and snacks

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DAY 2 THU. 16 JAN.

NEW ECONOMIC FORMSFORMAT Short presentations, workshops, and feedback sessions

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09.45 dAy’s WelCome by host: Michael Birchall (university of wolverhampton)

10.00 PRESENTATIONS each 30 min. followed by 15-min. discussion with

critical referent

10.00 – 10.45 1ST PRESENTATION

Jaromil (naba, milan)

Critical referent: Enric Duran Girait (via Skype) & Raquel Benedicto

(in workshop) (cooperativa integral catalana) with Britt Jurgensen

(homebaked landtrust and co-operative bakery)

10.45 – 11.30 2ND PRESENTATION

Pelin Tan (mardin artuklu university)

Critical referent: Silvia Simoncelli (brera art academy)

11.30 –11.45 short BreAk

11.45 – 12.30 3RD PRESENTATION

Eli Feghali & Rachel Plattus (new economics institute)

Critical referent: Christopher Robbins (ghana thinktank)

12.30 – 13.15 4TH PRESENTATION

Pedro Medina (yo creo en colombia)

Critical referent: Jan Jongert (superuse studios)


14.00 – 14.15 Introduction to the afternoon session (host)

14.15 – 14.30 Setting the agenda (critical referents): listing questions

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14.30 – 15.45 WORKSHOPS

4 sessions, held at the same time at various locations around

the neighborhood, each centered on one of the morning presentations

Snackbar Pretoria

Cafe Akdeniz

De zuiderling

Meram

Each session would be facilitated by the Critical Referent from

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feedback session afterwards, assisted by a reporter and a member of the

Freehouse group, who’d keep and write up a record of the workshop

REPORTERS Ailbhe Murphy & Ciaran Smyth (vagabond reviews),

Elke Krasny (academy of fine arts vienna), Susanne Bosch (artist),

Carolina Rito (curator)


16.00 – 17.30 GENERAL FEEDBACK SESSION

(Moderated by host)

10-min. presentation of each workshop (questions for discussion by

critical referents), followed by 45-min. general discussion

17.30 dAy’s Closure (host) followed by drinks and snacks

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DAY 3 FRI. 17 JAN.

RE/FORMING THE FUTURE (OF AFRIKAANDERWIJK)FORMAT Deliberations

The aim of the last day is to bring a range of different voices and interests to the debate on “the

future of self-organization of neighborhoods” through deliberations where people can present

their ideas, hear the ideas of others, and change their views on the topic. The day is structured

as a series of mediated discussions organized around a number of tables (two Dutch spoken

and translated), where participants would share views, listen to one another, and challenge the

views presented. Each table would discuss the same questions and after each set of questions,

share the ideas that have come up at each table with the others. The process will be facilitated by

a moderator and a reporter, assisted by a member of the Freehouse group, and a record of the

conversations will be kept and written up.

MODERATORS Ailbhe Murphy & Ciaran Smyth (vagabond reviews), Carolina Rito (curator),

Elke Krasny (academy of fine arts vienna), Susanne Bosch (artist), Marcel Jongmans

(enthousiasmeur) REPORTERS Anastasia Kubrak (designer), Jaime Iglehart (artist),

Jeannette Petrik (researcher, writer & designer), Lizzie MacWillie (graduate school of design),

Tamar Shafrir (designer), Sikko Cleveringa (cal-xl)

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9.45 dAy’s WelCome by host: Arie Lengkeek (air foundation): conversation

with Jeanne van Heeswijk

Introduction to the Deliberations: of the Afrikaanderwijk Cooperative

Intentions of the Afrikaanderwijk Cooperative

Exchange and expectations

10.00 1ST DELIBERATION: NEW ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS

10.00 – 10.15 opening stAtement Roel In ‘t Veld (professor of governance &

sustainability) addressing questions coming out of Day 1

10.15 – 11.00 tABle disCussions Cooperation as organizational form:

How to maintain common ground

How to actively enhance skills of cooperation

How to connect the lived world of the coop with “systems-world” beyond

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11.00 – 11.15 Summary statements from each moderator on 3 key points

11.15 teA And Coffee

11.30 2ND DELIBERATION: NEW ECONOMIC FORMS

11.30 – 11.45 opening stAtement Rachel Plattus & Eli Feghali addressing questions

coming out of Day 2

11.45 – 12.30 tABle disCussions Cooperation as economic form:

How to connect value-systems

How to expand into new domains (housing, insurance, etc.)

How to entice surplus value to be reinvested locally


12.45 short BreAk

13.00 3RD DELIBERATION: RE/FORMING THE FUTURE

(OF AFRIKAANDERWIJK)

13.00 – 13.15 opening stAtement Aetzel Griffioen (rotterdam vakmanstad)

Addressing the future of the Afrikaander district

13.15 – 14.00 tABle disCussions the emergence of the future Afrikaanderwijk?

What did you sense in the Afrikaanderwijk?

What benefit can the Afrikaanderwijk have from your experience and insights?

How can the future practice of Afrikaanderwijk be connected to your future

practice elsewhere in Rotterdam/The World?



15.00 CLOSING STATEMENT & CEREMONIAL HANDOvER TO THE

AFRIKAANDERWIJK COOP

Around 15.00 hour other guests will start gathering to take part in the Closing and Handover,

leading into an Official Reception/Closing Party of Freehouse. As part of the event, during the

breaks and at the end, parts of the interior will be taken apart and distributed throughout the

neighborhood. So, the third day would be in an almost empty room, with the last elements

leaving the building…

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AETZEL GRIFFIOEN(R O T T E R D A M vA K M A N S TA D )

Aetzel Griffioen attained his MA degree

in political philosophy at the Erasmus

University Rotterdam (cum laude). He has

a special interest in ecosophy, operaism,

the common and occasionalism and

published in volume, de helling and

with Sjoerd van Tuinen in krisis and the

algemeen nederlands tijdschrift voor

wijsbegeerte. Working for Rotterdam

Vakmanstad / Skillcity he integrates eco-

social methods in four neighbourhoods

in the south of Rotterdam. Currently he is

co-editing the book wat heet lichamelijke

opvoeding? Ecosociale educatie op de

brede school with Henk Oosterling.

AILBHE MURPHY & CIARAN SMYTH ( vA G A B O N D R E v I E W S )

Co-founded in 2007 by artist Ailbhe

Murphy and independent researcher

Ciaran Smyth, vagabond reviews is an

interdisciplinary platform combining

socially engaged art and research

practice. Most recently Vagabond Reviews

were commissioned as part of the

National Women’s Council of Ireland’s

Legacy Project, curated by Valerie Connor.

In October ‘Still, We Work’ was exhibited

at the Gallery of Photography and was

presented at 126 Gallery, Galway as

part of the Tulca Visual Arts Festival in

November 2013. Other projects include

the cultural archaeology (2009 – 2010), a

community-based arts research initiative

in collaboration with Fatima Groups

United, Rialto. The sliabh bán Art House

(2011 – 2012) a participatory public

art project commissioned by Galway

City Council’s Arts Office and city (re)

searches experiences of being public,

an interdisciplinary research initiative

produced by Blue Drum, Community

Arts Partnership Belfast and the

Kaunas Biennial.

ANASTASIA KUBRAK (D E S I G N E R )

Anastasia Kubrak is a young communi-

cation designer. Her work addresses

political and social causes in the age of

information; maximalist enough, she

believes that design is “a weapon for

social change”. She designs urban and

digital interactions, so that her projects

found their viewers in Natlab, former

Philips Laboratories, Van Abbemuseum

in Eindhoven, and many more.

Within recent collaborations such as

“The Other Market”, which aims for the

exchange of goods for the dialogue,

Anastasia started a series of live events,

embracing various graphic media in order

to illuminate and visualize the real time

discussions. In this sense, illustration

becomes an interactive experience, which

role is a graphical translation of ideas and

mapping the complexity of information.

Born in Moscow, Russia, she is currently

studying in Design Academy Eindhoven,

Man & Communication department.

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There she is also a writer and editor of

the official school magazine, a student

platform for design criticism.

ARIE LENGKEEK( A I R F O U N D AT I O N )

Arie Lengkeek is editor and programme-

maker at AIR, Rotterdam centre for

Architecture. His background as urban

planner helps him to focus on the values,

actors and processes which contribute

to the built environment and its qualities.

Facilitating emerging practices in the

production of the city is his key interest,

reflected in programmes like Van der

Leeuwkring and PLUG Rotterdam, which

are learning environments connecting a

wide diversity of agents.

BRITT JURGENSEN (H O M E B A K E D C O M M U N I T Y L A N D T R U S T A N D C O-O P E R AT I v E B A K E R Y )

Britt Jurgensen is a German theatre/

performance artist and community

activist currently based in North Liverpool

where she is a member and co-producer

of Homebaked. Homebaked is a

Community Land Trust and Co-operative

Bakery located on the high street, just

a few steps from the famous Liverpool

Football Club. In a neighbourhood

that has severely suffered from stalled

regeneration programmes it proposes a

scheme of community-led development

of parts of the high street, providing

workspace for social enterprise, affordable

housing and spaces to meet, to chat

and to celebrate. At the heart of this

endeavor is the principle of creating value,

social and monetary, which stays within

the neighbourhood and is invested into

its communities.

CAROLINA RITO (C U R AT O R )

Carolina Rito is a curator, writer and

researcher, born in Portugal and

currently living in London. Since 2011

she is a graduate student of the PhD in

Curatorial/Knowledge, at Goldsmiths

College, London, UK, supervised by Irit

Rogoff. Currently she is also developing

the project disdisdis in collaboration with

the artist Luisa Ungar. Previously she has

lectured in the MA and BA programmes

in Portugal. In 2013 she was Curator in

Residency in UNIDEE – Cittadellarte, in

Fondazione Pistoletto, Italy. In 2010/2011

she was curator-researcher at a curatorial

residency in CuratorLab at Konstfack

in Stockholm, and worked as assistant

curator for the Arts and Architecture

Programme of Guimaraes European

Capital of Culture. In 2009 she was a

visiting curator at Situations (dir. Claire

Doherty), Bristol, UK. Her curatorial

projects include, in 2013 The Compromise,

co-curated with Jeanne Van Heeswijk,

in 2012 the exhibition BES Revelação

in Serralves Museum, Porto, and in

2008 the process-based project at

Botanical Garden, supported by the

Gulbenkian Foundation.

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CHRISTOPHER ROBBINS (G H A N A T H I N K TA N K )

Christopher Robbins works on the uneasy

cusp of public art and international

development, creating sculptural interven-

tions in the daily lives of strangers. He built

his own hut out of mud and sticks and

lived in it while serving as a Peace Corps

Volunteer in Benin, West Africa, spoke at

a United Nations conference about his

cross-cultural digital arts and education

work in the South Pacific, and has lived

and worked in London, Tokyo, West Africa,

the Fiji Islands, and former Yugoslavia.

He has exhibited at the Venice Biennial of

Architecture, zKM | Museum of Contem-

porary Art, New Museum Festival of Ideas,

Trade School at the Whitney Museum,

the National Museum of Wales, Nikolaj

Kunsthallen/Copenhagen Contemporary

Art Center, and been awarded residencies

or fellowships from Skowhegan,

MacDowell Colony, Haystack, Penland and

Anderson Ranch, among others.

The Ghana ThinkTank, which he co-

founded in 2006, is a global network of

think tanks from the “developing” world,

whose premise is to “Develop the First

World.” They collect problems in the

U.S. and Europe, and send them to think

tanks they established in Cuba, Ghana,

Palestine, Iran, Mexico and El Salvador to

analyze and solve. They then work with

the communities where the problems

originated to implement those solutions –

whether they seem impractical or brilliant.

DOROTHEE RICHTER (Z U R I C H U N I v E R S I T Y O F T H E A R T S )

Dr. Dorothee Richter, is head of the

Postgraduate Programme in Curating

(MAS/CAS) at the University of the

Arts zurich (zHdK).

She also co-founded with Susanne

Clausen the “Research Platform for

Curatorial and Cross-disciplinary Cultural

Studies, Practice-Based Doctoral

Programme” a cooperation of the

Postgraduate Programme in Curating

and the Department of Fine Arts,

University of Reading. She initiated the

Curating Degree zero Archive together

with Barnaby Drabble.

She curated and programmed different

exhibition series like Feldforschung

Hausfrauenkunst, female qualities, exile

and mainstream.

From 1999 to the end of 2003, Richter

was artistic director of the Künstlerhaus

Bremen where she curated a discursive

programme based on feminist issues,

urban situations, power relation issues,

and institutional critique.

Since 1998, Richter has held lecturing

posts at the University of Bremen, the

Merzakademie Stuttgart, the École des

Beaux Arts in Geneva, and the Universität

Lüneburg. Most recent publication is

“Fluxus. Kunst gleich Leben? Mythen um

Autorschaft, Produktion, Geschlecht und

Gemeinschaft” (Fluxus, art is life? Myths

around authorship, production, gender

and community”) and the new Internet

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platform on-curating.org which presents

current approaches to critical curatorial

practice. She curated for example a Fluxus

Festival and exhibition with Adrian Notz at

Cabaret Voltaire and other series like New

Social Sculptures at Kunstmuseum Thun

with the PP in Curating.

In 2013 she published a film together

with Ronald Kolb: „Flux Us Now! Fluxus

explored with a camera.“ Which was

screened at Staatsgalerie Stuttgart in April

2013 and in October 2013 at the Migros

Musem fuer Gegenwartskunst in zürich.

In September 2013 she was appointed as

mentor for POOL, zürich.

ELI FEGHALI & RACHEL PLATTUS (N E W E C O N O MY C O A L I T I O N )

Eli Feghali is the Director of

Communications and Online Organizing

for the New Economy Coalition. He is

a Lebanese-American who has spent

the majority of his professional life

as a communications specialist and

community organizer focused on issues

of economic and social justice. At NEC,

Eli works to create and promote effective

narratives about the movement to build

a New Economy that prioritizes people,

place, and the planet. Outside of his day

job, Eli is active in a climate justice affinity

group and in local efforts to grow the

cooperative sector in Boston. When not

eating vegan food or watching the Celtics,

Eli can be found on Twitter (@efeghali).

Rachel Plattus is Director of Organizing

(Youth and Student Network) at the New

Economy Coalition. She coordinates

NEC’s youth and student organizing

programs and works to build broad

community, movement and organizational

engagement in the New Economy.

Rachel is active in climate justice work as

a member of a Boston-based organizing

collective, Simorgh. She hopes to support

communities in embracing and protecting

what is left of our planet and in building

resilience in the face of environmental and

economic transformation. Someday she

would like to be a heron or a whale. Rachel

lives in Boston, MA.

ELKE KRASNY ( A C A D E MY O F F I N E A R T S v I E N N A )

Elke Krasny is Senior Lecturer at the

Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She was

Guest Professor at the University of

Bremen in 2006, at the Academy of

Fine Arts Nuremberg in 2013, and at the

Vienna University of Technology in 2014.

In 2012 she was Visiting Scholar at the

CCA, Canadian Centre for Architecture,

in Montréal. Her work as a curator, critic,

cultural theorist and urban researcher

clearly shows her interest in urban

transformation processes, the critical

history of architecture, the politics of

history, and the historiography of feminist

curatorial practices. The edited book on

the history of self-organization hands-on

urbanism 1850 – 2012. the right to green

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appeared in 2012 and her exhibition

by the same name was shown at the

Architecture Centre Vienna, the Museum

for Contemporary Art Leipzig and included

in the Venice Biennale of Architecture

in 2012. She co-edited the 2013 volume

women’s:museum. curatorial politics in

feminism, education, History, and Art.

ENRIC DURAN GIRAIT &

RAqUEL BENEDICTO (C O O P E R AT I vA I N T E G R A L C ATA L A N A )

ENRIC DURAN GIRALT If in the year 2008,

he was known for the expropriation of

€492,000 from 39 banks to be allocated

to social change initiatives, today he is

known for having promoted the Catalan

Integrated Cooperative, which has

become after three years a living example

for an alternative construction of society,

bringing together thousands of people

and hundreds of cooperative projects.

RAqUEL BENEDICTO Working since

2010 in Cooperativa Integral Catalana

(CIC). She’s working in different work

commissions in CIC in the areas of

economic, welcoming and productive

projects. She also work in the replication

of the tools that CIC has create for the

communal good, in the rest of Catalonia,

explaining people how this tools work and

forming them, and how this can help them

to change his dependence of the state.

Mother of a son, don’t believe capitalism

would give her little baby a real solution,

so she also work with different education

projects. She’s out of the system, cannot

have a job or a bank account and she’s

happy with it, because long time ago, she

decided to be a human in the earth.

ETHEL BARAONA POHL (D P R-B A R C E L O N A )

Ethel Baraona Pohl is a writer, publisher

and curator; her [net]work is a real hub

linking several publications and actors

on architecture and theory. Co-founder

of the independent publishing house

dpr-barcelona, and editor at quaderns

d’arquitectura i urbanisme. She’s also

contributing editor for different blogs

and magazines, and has written articles

for domus, volume, the new city reader

[Istanbul edition] and mas context among

others. She has been invited to present

her work in events like postópolis! df,

and the international architecture festival

eme3. Associate Curator for “Adhocracy”,

first commissioned for the Istanbul

Design Biennial in 2012 and exhibited at

The New Museum, NYC [May 2013] and

Lime Wharf, London [Summer 2013].

Curator, with César Reyes Nájera, of the

third Think Space programme with the

theme ‘Money’.

EvA vISSER (K E N N I S C E N T R U M C R E AT I N G 010)

Social Historian Eva Visser works for as a

researcher and tutor for Kenniscentrum

Creating 010 (Rotterdam University).

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Her work includes research in the field of

Cultural Diversity and on new economic

models for young artists and designers.

Together with Levien Nordeman she wrote

the article ‘The limitations and possibilities

of co-creation in the public domain of

Rotterdam’ for the CATaC ‘12 conference

in Aarhus, in which Freehouse was used as

a case study.

GEORG ZOCHE (T R A N S N AT I O N A L R E P U B L I C )

Georg zoche was born in Munich, where

he studied engineering and philosophy

and was working as exotica DJ.

In 1992, his work on lightweight diesel

engines for aircraft received a research

award. Since 1995, the zoche aero-diesel

is on permanent display in the Deutsche

Museum. zoche holds patents on internal

combustion engines, electro motors and

reverse vending systems.

Since 1996, zoche is researching the

topic of a more participatory globalisation

process. To this end he co-founded in

2001 the grassroots movement The

United Transnational Republics, which has

been joined by more than 6,000 citizens

from over 100 nation states. The United

Transnational Republics participated at

well over 60 international conferences,

exhibitions, seminars, workshops in the

fields of politics, activism and art (Torino

Biennial, Venice Biennial, attac summer

academy, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Münchner

Kammerspiele, Palais de Tokyo Paris etc.).

In 2006, zoche was invited to present

at the international forum on the social

science (the first UNESCO summit on

globalisation and democracy) and

to contribute to “The Buenos Aires

Declaration”. In 2007, zoche was speaker

at the unesco monterrey forum, where he

co-authored “The Monterrey Manifesto”

and was selected as winner in the global

governance essay contest.

In 2009, zoche’s first book about the

(geo)political power of currencies was

published (welt macht geld, münchen:

blumenbar).

HENK OOSTERLING (R O T T E R D A M vA K M A N S TA D )

Dr. Henk A.F. Oosterling is associate

professor at the Dept. of Philosophy of

the Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

where he teaches philosophy of

difference, dialectics, and philosophy of

art since 1985. His academic research

focuses on intermedial art, design,

and interculturality. He published and

edited dozens of books and received the

Erasmus Research Award (1996).

In 2004 Oosterling initiated and since

2007 directs a long-term educational

urban renovation programme called

Rotterdam Skillcity, based on the

philosophical insights of Foucault,

Deleuze/Guattari and Arendt. This

emancipatory project connects groups on

a neighbourhood level, and educationally

aims at eco-literacy, reintroducing a 21st

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century craftsmanship in the school

curricula, He was awarded for this with

the Rotterdam Laurens Coin (2008) and

the national Van Praag Reward (2013).

His most recent book on this discursive

practice is ECO3: Reflection (2013).

JAIME IGLEHART ( A R T I S T )

Jaime Iglehart is a multimedia artist

exploring questions of freedom, authority,

and human social interaction within the

context of autonomous collectivism.

Past projects have taken the form of

installation, performance, photography,

textile, pedagogy, curating, and most

recently, open source mapping.

Jaime is the vice-president of the

New Age Beverages corporation.

JAN JONGERT (S U P E R U S E S T U D I O S )

Jan Jongert studied in Delft and

graduated as Architect at the Academy

of Architecture Rotterdam in 2003.

As cofounder of Superuse Studios

in Rotterdam (formerly known as

2012Architecten) he designs interiors

and buildings and develops strategies to

facilitate the transition to a sustainable

society. He focuses at developing tools

and processes and realises projects that

empower local exchange and production,

as an alternative to transporting our

resources, products and components

around the globe. Jan Jongert specialised

in the behaviour of flows in interior,

industrial and urban environment. His

key projects are Villa Welpeloo (2009),

Recyclicity MSP (2010) and various

open source web-platforms (Superuse.

org, Cyclifier.org and Harvestmap.org).

Jan Jongert currently holds the position

of Lector at the Royal Academy of Art in

The Hague.

JAROMIL/DENIS ROIO (N A B A , M I L A N )

Denis Roio, better known as Jaromil, is a

developer, activist and artist of the Dyne.

org network. Since the year 2000 his

works have focused on computer viruses,

piracy, freedom of speech, privacy and

independent media practices. Jaromil’s

software creations are recommended

by the Free Software Foundation and

redistributed in several GNU/Linux

systems worldwide, while he is also

an active contributor to media theory

discourses. In 2009 he was the receipt

of the Vilém Flusser Award, now

completing his Ph.D. on digital economies,

also focusing on cryptographic systems

such as Bitcoin.

JEANNETTE PETRIK (R E S E A R C H E R, W R I T E R & D E S I G N E R )

Jeannette Petrik is a researcher, writer and

designer currently based in Rotterdam.

Her practice revolves around the creation

of opportunities for public empowerment

and skill sharing. She considers the design

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of situations and performative actions as

a tool for everyday political engagement.

At the core of her practice lies the

in-depth, contextual analysis of the

subjective dynamics inherent in social

arrangements and material cultures,

which allows her to facilitate the creation

of events of doubt in dialogue with her

surrounding environment.

Jeannette has studied Product Design

at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma

de Mexico and has pursued a bachelor

degree at Central Saint Martins School of

Art and Design in London before taking

up a master degree in Contextual Design

at the Design Academy Eindoven, in the

context of which she created a body of

research around the notion of Extremism

within the Everyday. Currently, she is

working as a freelance and independent

researcher, designer and writer.

MARCEL JONGMANS(E N T H O U S I A S M E U R )

Enthousiasmeur in the first place.

He thinks in terms of opportunities

and focuses on small initiatives with

a big impact and the power of

cooperation. Marcel Jongmans works

independently but also functions as a

communications consultant employed

by the municipality of Rotterdam,

a liaison between the municipality

and Rotterdam neighbourhoods.

Makes people enthusiastic about

themselves, the organisation they

work for or the neighbourhood they

live in via trainings, lectures and bringing

possibilities together.

MATTEO LUCCHETTI (P R OJ E C T v I S I B L E )

Matteo Lucchetti is an independent

curator, and art historian. He holds

an MA in Visual Arts and Curatorial

Studies with a thesis entitled Enacting

a Community, about the relationship

between collaborative artistic practices

and the idea of community. He has been

curator in residence at AIR – Artist in

residence, Antwerp, Kadist Art Foundation,

Paris, and Para Site, Hong Kong.

His main curatorial projects include:

don’t embarrass the bureau! (Lunds

Konsthalle, Lund, 2014); legally. Anna

Scalfi Eghenter (Biennale di Democrazia,

Turin, 2013); enacting populism in its

mediascape (Kadist Art Foundation,

Paris 2011 – 2012); practicing memory

(Cittadellarte, Biella, 2010). He is co-

curator of visible (Pistoletto Foundation/

Fondazione zegna), a biennial production

award and research project on socially

engaged artistic practices in a global

context. Lucchetti lectures regularly at the

Piet zwart Institute, Rotterdam and is a

visiting lecturer at the Brera Art Academy,

Milan and at St Lucas University College of

Art, Antwerp. He has written for Manifesta

blog, Art-Agenda, This is Tomorrow,

and Mousse, among others, and he has

edited the monograph “Michelangelo

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Consani: The Caspian Depression”. Matteo

Lucchetti lives and works in Brussels.

MICHAEL BIRCHALL(U N I v E R S I T Y O F W O Lv E R H A M P T O N )

Michael G. Birchall is a curator, writer

and PhD candidate with an interest

in collaborative and participatory art

practices. He has curated exhibitions

and projects including ‘Wie geht’s dir

Stuttgart/How are you doing Stuttgart?’

and ‘Hier und Jetzt’ – at Künstlerhaus

Stuttgart. He has attended residencies

at The Western Front, Vancouver,

Canada, and at The Banff Centre for

the Arts, Banff, Canada. His writing

has appeared in Frieze, Frieze d/e,

ThisIsTomorrow and C-Magazine.

Michael is currently a PhD candidate in

Art, Critique and Social Practice at the

University of Wolverhampton (UK)

where he is undertaking research into

the role of the curator as a producer in

social and participatory-based art.

He is a co-publisher of the journal

oncurating and a lecturer on the

postgraduate program in Curating at

the zurich University of the Arts.

PEDRO MEDINA ( YO C R E O E N C O L O M B I A )

Pedro Medina is a professor, a catalyst,

a mentor and a social entrepreneur.

He is a Fellow at the Weatherhead Center

for International Affairs at Harvard

University and a Batten Fellow at the

Darden School of the University of

Virginia. He worked in Mobil Polymers

International, Propilco, a licensee of Union

Carbide and Shell, Sofasa, the Toyota

and Renault assembly plant in Colombia,

and brought McDonald´s into Colombia.

He led the company as its General

Manager for 7 years. While at McDonald´s,

Medina founded and led a state of the

art program called “I believe in Colombia”.

The business magazine Dinero chose

him as one of the 20 most valuable

businessmen in Colombia.

The program, now a non-profit foundation,

has touched 680,000 persons in 159

cities and 29 countries, and has extended

into I believe in Latin America. He has

been a Professor of business strategy,

leadership and innovation in 4 universities

for 18 years. A columnist in 12 newspapers

and magazines, Medina wrote his first

book – Puentes, Redes y Trampolines and

has collaborated on three others. He holds

a BA degree in Economics, History and

International Relations from the University

of Virginia, an MBA from the Darden

School and a Bachelor in Hamburgerology

from Hamburger University in Chicago.

PELIN TAN (M A R D I N A R T U K L U U N I v E R S I T Y )

As a sociologist, art historian she

completed her PhD. on socially engaged

art practices in urban space, and her

postdoc on artistic research at Art, Culture

and Technology program at MIT (2011).

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She co-directed “2084, episode I – III”

videos on the future of institutions (with

A.Vidokle). Tan was a research fellow

of The Japan Foundation where she

conducted a research on artist run spaces.

Currently, she is assistant professor and

vice-dean of the Architecture Faculty of

Mardin Artuklu University.

RASMUS UGILT ( A A R H U S U N I v E R S I T Y )

Rasmus Ugilt is assistant professor

at the Department of Culture and

Society, Aarhus University. He teaches

history of philosophy, metaphysics and

contemporary continental philosophy.

His current research project aims to

produce a philosophical analysis of the

current global juridico-political situation

focussing on the consequences of the

global war on terror. Recent publications

include the metaphysics of terror,

Bloomsbury, 2012, “Evil as an Aesthetic

Concept”, academic quarter, 2012, “The

Nazi-Card-Card”, the journal of slavoj

zizek studies, 2012, and we just talk! –

reflections on economy and public life,

w. Jeanne van Heeswijk, Taschenspiel

Press, 2013.

ROEL IN ‘T vELD (PROFESSOR GOvERNANCE & SUSTAINABILIT Y)

Prof. dr. Roeland Jaap in ‘t Veld was

born in the middle of the Second World

War and studied law and economics in

Leiden and Rotterdam. He became a

master of law in 1964 and was appointed

as a junior-lecturer at the law faculty of

Leiden University. In 1969 he entered

the university administration where

he became personal assistant to the

university president. In 1975 he became

doctor after completion of a dissertation

on theoretical foundations of collective

decision-making.

In 1977 In ‘t Veld became full professor

of political science at the University of

Nijmegen. During the years 1979 – 1982

he also was an advisor to the Minister for

Science Policy. From 1982 to 1988 he was

appointed as the Director-General for

Higher Education and Scientific Research.

For six years he was the Vice-Chairman of

the OECD-Education Committee, and for

two decades a chairman and a member of

the High Council and the Research Council

of the European University Institute at

Florence.

In ‘t Veld chaired the committee that

prepared the strategic study Beyond

Maintenance, and also participated in later

strategic studies. He was a full professor

of government at Erasmus University

Rotterdam from 1988 to 1998, and at

Leiden University from 1990 to 1998. In

1993 he served as Secretary of State for

Higher Education. For the next decade,

In ‘t Veld held various professorships at a

number of universities: 1994 – 2006 at

University of Amsterdam in organisational

science; 1995 – 2004 at Utrecht

University in public administration; and

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2002 – 2004 at The European University

Institute in Florence.

In ‘t Veld has been Dean of the (Graduate)

Netherlands School of Government,

and rector of Sioo. He held till 2013 two

professorial chairs in the domains of

management and governance at the Open

University Netherlands and the University

of the Dutch Antilles, and has accepted

in 2010 an appointment as Professor

of Governance and Sustainability at the

University of Tilburg. During 2010 – 11

he was as a visiting fellow at the IASS,

Institute for Advanced Sustainability

Studies in Potsdam, Germany.

In ‘t Veld serves in advisory positions for

several ministers; and has held positions

as an advisor for the World Bank, for

OECD, for EC and for the Council of

Europe. From 1996 till 2010 he was

chairman of the National Council for

Spatial and Environmental Research.

During the decade 2000 – 2010 he has

been chairman of the Board of Directors

of the Netherlands Railways infra-provider

PRORAIL. He held several positions as a

member of the Board of Directors at IBM

Netherlands, HSK and Berenschot.

Professor In ‘t Veld has published

several books on Planning Theory,

Structuring Higher Education, Theoretical

Foundations of Steering Theory and

recently Knowledge Democracy and

Sustainability. He has recently published

Transgovernance, The quest for the

Governance of Sustainable Development.

SIKKO CLEvERINGA (CAL-XL)

Sikko Cleveringa is Director of CAL-XL,

the Dutch organization for community

arts and new cultural functions. He

leads a team of national experts working

on networking, training, research,

documentation and advocacy and is

itself active in these areas as a senior

advisor. In the period 2001 – 2010 he

was ‘Cultural broker’ of the Municipality

of Deventer. He is one of the pioneers

in the Netherlands of developing and

supporting community arts and related

forms of artistic interventions in social

development. In the period 1990 – 2000

he worked in Tanzania, Rwanda and

Burkina Faso as a development expert

with specialties as land use planning,

micro credit and in Burkina Faso

regional radio and event management.

In the late eighties he graduated in rural

development at Larenstein (now part of

Wageningen University). Sikko Cleveringa

is the author of several publications

and articles on community arts and

appears regularly as a guest speaker at

symposia. He developed a project scan

for community arts and wrote a guideline

on ‘Culture New Style “(2012). Sikko is a

board member of the Foundations One

World Jam (Music) and La Benevolencia

(Radio). Community Arts Lab XL (CAL-XL),

is the Dutch organization for community

arts and new cultural functions. Our work

is about cultural entrepreneurship and

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civic engagement. Important themes

include reinforcing professionalism and

legitimacy, sustainable programs in

stead of incidental projects, vital

coalitions and culture producing citizens.

CAL-XL is a platform and catalyst for new

connections between artistic and social

sectors, between theory and practice.

Spearheads are networking, training,

research, documentation and advocacy.

We build partnerships and acquire grants

for the development of new products

and services. The implementation is

basically on the basis of contracts and the

contribution of participants.

SILvIA SIMONCELLI (BRERA ART ACADEMY)

Silvia Simoncelli is an art historian and

independent curator based in Milan

and zurich. She is professor at Brera

Art Academy and course leader of the

Advanced Course in Contemporary Art

Markets, NABA in Milan. She lectures

regularly for the Postgraduate Programme

in Curating at zHdK, zurich and she is co-

publisher of the web journal oncurating.

Her research interests comprise the

relation between art and economy,

institutional critique and art in public

space. She is currently editing an issue of

oncurating on the topic of the commons.

Recent projects and participations

include: artists and rights in contemporary

art, symposium, Artissima, Turin; visions

of labour, exhibition, Kunshalle Sao Paulo;

who is afraid of the public, symposium,

ICI, London, 2013; performing structures,

exhibition, Wascherei, Kunstverein zurich,

2012; Deimantas narkevicius, revisiting

utopia, special program, Winterthur Short

Film Festival, 2011. In 2014 she will curate

a series of artistic interventions within

the frame of Dencity, an interdisciplinary

cultural project in the suburban area of

Giambellino, in Milan.

SUE BELL YANK (SOCIAL PRACTICE)

Sue Bell Yank is a writer, producer, and

arts organizer. She currently works as an

online education producer for the Oprah

Winfrey Network and was formerly the

Associate Director of Academic Programs

at the Hammer Museum. She graduated

from the Masters of Public Art Studies

program at USC, focusing on the role of

contemporary art in rebuilding efforts

after a crisis, focusing on post-Katrina

New Orleans. She has worked with artist

Edgar Arceneaux as a co-founder and

Assistant Director for the Watts House

Project, and has a deep-seated investment

in socially and politically-engaged art that

can be traced to her years as a public

school teacher in Lynwood and South

Fairfax. She is currently an advisor for the

Asian Arts Initiative’s Social Practice Lab

and the granting organization SPArt, was

a curatorial advisor for the Creative Time

Living as Form exhibition (2011), and was

part of the curatorial team for the 2008

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California Biennial. Her writing has been

featured in exhibition catalogues, Journal

of Aesthetics and Protest, the Huffington

Post, KCET Artbound, and various arts

blogs including her ongoing essay blog

entitled Social Practice: Writings about

the social in contemporary art. She has

been a lecturer at California College

of the Arts, Otis College of Art and Design,

UCLA, and USC.

SUSANNE BOSCH (ARTIST)

Susanne Bosch is an artist and teaches.

From 2007 – 2012, she developed and led

the Art in Public master programme at the

University of Ulster in Belfast together with

Dan Shipsides. She works predominantly

in public and on long-term questions,

which tackle creative arguments around

the ideas of democracy. Works include

among other things issues around money,

migration, surviving, work, societal visions

and participation models. She formally

uses site – and situation – specific

interventions, installations, video, drawing,

audio, dialogic work, in addition formats

such as writing, speaking, listening,

workshops, seminars and Open Space

conferences. She is a trained Open Space

facilitator (2008) and trained in conflict

analysis and – management (2004).

Susanne works internationally on

exhibitions and projects in public space,

e.g. she was involved with Jericho –

beyond the celestial and terrestrial,

4th edition of Cities Exhibition, Bir

zeit (2012/13), Citizen Art Days

Berlin (2012/13), Arte Útil Archiv,

Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2013),

Click or Clash? Strategies of collaboration,

Galleria Bianconi, Milano (2013).

She is co-editor and editor, the most

recent books being STATE (2011) edited

collaboratively with the artist Anthony

Haughey, Dublin (published by Project

Arts Centre Dublin) and Connections:

Artists in communication (2012) edited

collaboratively with the artist Andrea

Theis (published by Interface Research

Center Belfast).

TAMAR SHAFRIR (DESIGNER)

Tamar Shafrir is a writer and editor in

the fields of design and architecture,

based in Genoa, Italy. She received her

bachelor’s degree in architectural design

at the University of Virginia and her

master’s degree in contextual design

at the Design Academy Eindhoven. Her

articles have been published in domus

magazine, and she also works on editorial

projects with designers, curators, and

critics including Unfold, Jan Boelen,

and Louise Schouwenberg. She was the

catalogue editor for the first Istanbul

Design Biennial and worked on the

adhocracy exhibition in Istanbul, New

York, and London. In 2013, in partnership

with Joseph Grima, she started Space

Caviar, a practice for critique, curation,

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and consultancy, beginning with

neoasterisms, a collaborative rewriting of

the constellations for experimental design

in Lisbon, followed by An archaeology of

rose island for the 2013 Shenzhen Bi-City

Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture. She

has lectured at the Design Academy

Eindhoven, at What Design Can Do in

Amsterdam, at the Politecnico di Milano,

and at Premsela’s Milan Breakfasts during

the Salone del Mobile.

TINE DE MOOR (INSTITUTIONS FOR COLLECTIvE ACTION)

Tine De Moor studied social and economic

history and environmental sciences at

the universities of Ghent, Antwerp and

London and is professor “Institutions for

collective action in historical perspective”

at the department of history of Utrecht

University. Her research focuses on both

historical (modern and early modern)

and present-day forms of self-governing

institutions, in which citizens are

cooperating towards collective economic

or social goals, such as commons, guilds,

cooperatives and present-day civil

collectivities. Her research combines

extensive empirical research and analysis

with modelling and a strongly theoretical

framework and has been published in

several books and high-ranking journals.

She is an executive board member of

the international association for the

study of the commons, for which she also

founded the peer-reviewed open-access

international journal of the commons.

She is also a member of the both Dutch

and European Young Academey. Currently

she is in charge of several large projects

on institutions for collective action and

related issues on which more information

can be found at www.collective-action.info.

ORGANIZERS

PABLO CALDERON (SOCIAL DESIGNER)

Pablo Calderón Salazar is an Industrial

Designer (bachelor level) from the Jorge

Tadeo Lozano University of Bogotá,

Colombia (2008) and Social Designer

(Master in Design) from Design Academy

Eindhoven (June 2013). The essence of

his practice lies in collaborating with local

partners in the different contexts where

his projects take place. He empathically

interprets the interests of different

constituents, using dialogue as his main

tool. Giving great attention to the political,

economical, social and cultural conditions

under which his projects take place, he

produces texts, installations, graphics,

videos, interven-tions and events that

provoke reflection around relevant

issues in society; but this critical stance

is always accompanied by a propositive

one, which tries to hint into better ways

of living together. His master graduation

project was called the other market,

a platform, materialized in a series of

pushcarts and stalls, to trade products

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and services without money, using

dialogue as a currency.

ASHRAF OSMAN (ARTINECT)

Ashraf Osman is an architect, curator,

and consultant on public art, olfactory

art, and social media for the arts. Born

in Beirut, Lebanon, he completed his

Master of Architecture at Syracuse

University in New York, where he received

the James Britton Memorial Award

for Outstanding Thesis for his thesis,

“memory for forgetfulness”: registering/

effacing the memory of the lebanese war.

Ashraf has over 10 years of experience

as an architect in Princeton, NJ and

Philadelphia, PA where he also taught

Interdisciplinary Design Foundations for

2 years at Philadelphia University. He is a

Registered Architect both in the US and

Lebanon. Ashraf has recently founded

ARTINECT, a consultancy for connecting

art both physically – by providing artwork

for architectural spaces – and virtually

– by managing the web presence of

art entities. He is currently completing

his Master of Advanced Studies at the

Postgraduate Programme in Curating at

zurich University of the Arts (zHdK).

JEANNE vAN HEESWIJK (ARTIST , INITIATOR OF FREEHOUSE)

How can an artist be an instrument

for the collective reimagining of daily

environments, given the complexity of our

societies? This is the question that artist

Jeanne van Heeswijk, of the Netherlands,

considers when deciding how to employ

her work to improve communities. Van

Heeswijk believes communities need

to co-produce their own futures. That’s

why she embeds herself, for years at a

time, in communities from Rotterdam to

Liverpool, working with them to improve

their neighbourhoods and empowering

them to design their own futures – not

wait for local authorities to foist upon

them urban planning schemes which

rarely take embedded culture into

account. Her work often attempts to

unravel invisible legislation, governmental

codes, and social institutions, gradually

preparing areas for their predictive

futures. She calls it “radicalising the local”

by empowering communities to become

their own antidote.

Van Heeswijk’s work has been featured

in numerous books and publications

worldwide, as well as internationally

renowned biennials such as those of

Liverpool, Busan, Taipei, Shanghai

and Venice. She has received a host of

accolades and recognitions for her work,

including most recently the 2012 Curry

Stone Prize for Social Design Pioneers and

the 2011 Leonore Annenberg Prize for Art

and Social Change.

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HOSTS / SPEAKERS / MODERATORS / CRITICAL REFERENTS / REPORTERS Aetzel Griffioen (rotterdam vakmanstad), Ailbhe Murphy & Ciaran Smyth (vagabond reviews), Anastasia Kubrak (designer), Arie Lengkeek (air foundation), Britt Jurgensen (homebaked community landtrust and co-operative bakery), Carolina Rito (curator), Christopher Robbins (ghana thinktank), Dorothee Richter (zurich university of the arts), Eli Feghali & Rachel Plattus (new economy coalition), Elke Krasny (academy of fine arts vienna), Enric Duran Girait & Raquel Benedicto (cooperativa integral catalana), Ethel Baraona Pohl (dpr-barcelona), Eva Visser (kenniscentrum creating 010), Georg zoche (transnational republic), Henk Oosterling (rotterdam vakmanstad), Jaime Iglehart (artist), Jan Jongert (superuse studios), Jaromil/Denis Roio (naba, milan), Jeannette Petrik (researcher, writer & designer), Marcel Jongmans (enthousiasmeur), Matteo Lucchetti (project visible), Michael Birchall (university of wolverhampton), Pedro Medina (yo creo en colombia), Pelin Tan (mardin artuklu university), Rasmus Ugilt (aarhus university), Roel In ‘t Veld (professor governance & sustainability), Sikko Cleveringa (cal-xl), Silvia Simoncelli (brera art academy), Sue Bell Yank (social practice), Susanne Bosch (artist), Tamar Shafrir (designer), Tine De Moor (institutions for collective action)

ORGANIZERS Ashraf Osman (artinect), Jeanne van Heeswijk (artist), Pablo Calderon (social designer) CO-ORGANIZERS Ali Osman Safac (concept developer), Annet van Otterloo (historian), Mariska Vogel (artist), Ramón Mosterd (art & media manager) GRAPHIC DESIGN Janneke Absil (designer), Minke Themans (designer), Peter zuiderwijk (designer) CATERING Wijkkeuken van zuid FINANCIERS Mondriaan Fund, Creative Industries Fund NL, Stadsontwikkeling Gemeente Rotterdam, Stichting DOEN CONTENT PARTNER AIR

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