Art of Resilienceabout searching, flexibity and values

Albert van der KooijAcademy of Pop Culture

• “If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea”

• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

My boat, my life

My search in life

• How to give form to my ideas in society?• How to reach World Peace?• What is my position in society?• To young to be a hippie, to old to be a punk

Nothing ever changed

• Society is changing• World is changing• Economics are changing• Art is changing

60’s

• Hippies calling for peace and new democratic order

• In a time of wars worldwide and in a changing society

70’s

• No more love and peace, institutes and government were also flexible and innovative

• But being practical, protesting and action• Recession…

80’s

• Cooperation and consensus• Cultural world, artists, activists, politicians and

entrepreneur creating a new world together.

90’s

• Slowly the economic system made a silent revolution and took over processes in society (in education, in media, cultural sector)

• Entrepreneurship and crisis• The answer of the old hippies: Wired…

90’s

• Wired: the Internet as new instruments for democracy and transparency

• business did not respond on this new development – it was to expensive and ‘dangerous’

• End 90’s, start of 2000 the Internet bubble burst.

2000

• Changes in approach1. Glocalisation2. Act local think global3. Social networks4. New networks based on common interests

And very important: business took over, an answer is needed

2012

• And now • Recession again• Europe and Euro are not stable anymore• And the question is how to deal with all these

changes.• The answer is simple: we did it before

Art is Changing

• How can arts contribute to society and business in a social economic way?

• Artists are not supposed to act in de side line• Intercultural thinking and acting

The Effect: individualisation and cooperation, networking, the possibility to change the world, as individual and collective, in dialogue with society.

The commercial of Levi’s as a mirror of this movement.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT16DcHcjRA

Education is Changing

• Interdisciplinarity as new standard for solving problems

• Student centered education• Prepared to solve problems of tomorrow• Entrepreneurship• Internationalisation

The Academy of Pop Culture

• No Curriculum, no marks, just competences• Ambitions of the students as starting point• No difference between digital and analog

media• Learning and producing community

Share

• Students learn from each other, sharing and playing, informal and formal networking

• Looking for ‘free’ education: lectures, conferences etcetera.

• Just In Time Education…• https://www.facebook.com/groups/13807898

3238/?ref=ts&fref=ts

Basics for our actions

• On the corners of the triangle you will find the charactaristics of of our Academy. In the middle the underlying values

Frontline/Niche

SustainabilityTrust

AuthenticityGrass roots

Social economic

Regional/International (glocal)

The Academy of Pop Culture• Florian Wolff: sustainable artisthttp://florianwolff.com/blog/new-year-new-shows/http://www.entertainandsustain.nl/

• Wild Street Parade Amsterdamhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffe-8uWiJZU

• Henri Kuipers went to Eritrea helping a music Schoolhttp://avp4eritrea.wordpress.com/

• Inge Grupstra designed a bench presented on the famous Milano Fairhttp://www.pietheineek.nl/nl/collectie/collectie-nieuw/een-balk-bank/gelebank

The Academy of Pop Culture• Subjective Atlas of Hungaryhttp://www.annelysdevet.nl/• Wild Street Parade Amsterdam, collectives of people, government and

initiated by studentshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubpinjdv7xMIncubate, a festival of independent culture, developed and executed by the participants (conditional design, social designhttp://www.incubate.org/2012/participate/ intro• Erasmus IP Island CQhttps://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=435620293136409&set=pb.155834217781686.-2207520000.1353578986&type=3&theaterhttp://islandcq.nl• Into The Great Wide Openhttp://intothegreatwideopen.nl

What do we need?

• The radical changes in technology, and society necessarily needs reflection on our action.

• Real innovation starts with an open mind, • but we necessarily have to change our way of

thinking about teaching and acting• Real interdisciplinarity: not parallel or adding

disciplines, but the question, nowadays as starting point

What do we need?

• Not only in our own subculture• Be present in society• Independent and open• Always sharing and willing to cooperate• But be clear in your values

You Can Do It

• You are the new generation• Thomas Azier, student of our academy,

working in Berlinhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edf9Yvz-b5U&feature=related

And now

• What is your ambition?• What is your most important value to work

on?