Het curriculum van het basisjaar van de meeste Nederlandse kunst-(vak-) opleidingen is anno 2009 (nog steeds) sterk geënt op het leren omgaan met de formele “elements of design” zoals die o.a. door Johannes Itten in de Bauhaus Vorkurs rond 1930 al experimenterend werden ontwikkeld. Je mag dit gerust karakteriseren als het aanleren - en verder ontwikkelen - van de formele beeldtaal; de analogie van het aanleren van de reken- en schrijftaal dringt zich op. Vervolgens is de onderwijsvisie van waaruit men didactisch aan de slag gaat te karakteriseren als een mix van de meester-/gezelwerkplaats en het renaissancistische academiemodel
Het lectoraat Lifelong Learning in Music & the Arts van de Hanzehogeschool Groningen en de Hogeschool der Kunsten in Den Haag is onderdeel van het sinds kort ingerichte Kenniscentrum Kunst en Samenleving van de Hanzehogeschool Groningen en heeft het project „Het Cross Arts Laboratorium‟ vormgegeven. Het resultaat is dit rapport van het onderzoeksproject dat als een reisbeschrijving is beschreven. Het is een pleidooi geworden voor het belang van interdisciplinair samenwerken tussen kunstenaars en musici. Samen leren en ontdekken binnen de kunsten. Studenten van het Prins Claus Conservatorium Groningen, Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag en Academie Minerva Groningen en o.l.v. van Horst Rickels en Elvira Wersche, hebben deelgenomen en samengewerkt aan het project in 2010 op het eiland Schiermonnikoog. Centraal stond de vraag op welke wijze interdisciplinaire samenwerking tussen musici en beeldend kunstenaars kan leiden tot artistieke vernieuwing.Ook de impact voor het curriculum wordt beschreven en werkbare modellen hiervoor onderzocht.
The reclaiming of street spaces for pedestrians during the COVID-19 pandemic, such as on Witte de Withstraat in Rotterdam, appears to have multiple benefits: It allows people to escape the potentially infected indoor air, limits accessibility for cars and reduces emissions. Before ordering their coffee or food, people may want to check one of the many wind and weather apps, such as windy.com: These apps display the air quality at any given time, including, for example, the amount of nitrogen dioxide (NO2), a gas responsible for an increasing number of health issues, particularly respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. Ships and heavy industry in the nearby Port of Rotterdam, Europe’s largest seaport, exacerbate air pollution in the region. Not surprisingly, in 2020 Rotterdam was ranked as one of the unhealthiest cities in the Netherlands, according to research on the health of cities conducted by Arcadis. Reducing air pollution is a key target for the Port Authority and the City of Rotterdam. Missing, however, is widespread awareness among citizens about how air pollution links to socio-spatial development, and thus to the future of the port city cluster of Rotterdam. To encourage awareness and counter the problem of "out of sight - out of mind," filmmaker Entrop&DeZwartFIlms together with ONSTV/NostalgieNet, and Rotterdam Veldakademie, are collaborating with historians of the built environment and computer science and public health from TU Delft and Erasmus University working on a spatial data platform to visualize air pollution dynamics and socio-economic datasets in the Rotterdam region. Following discussion of findings with key stakeholders, we will make a pilot TV-documentary. The documentary, discussed first with Rotterdam citizens, will set the stage for more documentaries on European and international cities, focusing on the health effects—positive and negative—of living and working near ports in the past, present, and future.
"Rising Tides, Shifting Imaginaries: Participatory Climate Fiction-Making with Cultural Collections," is an transdisciplinary research project that merges information design, participatory art, and climate imaginaries to address the pressing challenge of climate change, particularly the rising sea levels in the Netherlands. The doctoral research project aims to reimagine human coexistence with water-based ecosystems by exploring and reinterpreting audiovisual collections from various archives and online platforms. Through a creative and speculative approach, it seeks to visualize existing cultural representations of Dutch water-based ecosystems and, with the help of generative AI, develop alternative narratives and imaginaries for future living scenarios. The core methodology involves a transdisciplinary process of climate fiction-making, where narratives from the collections are amplified, countered, or recombined. This process is documented in a structured speculative archive, encompassing feminist data visualizations and illustrated climate fiction stories. The research contributes to the development of Dutch climate scenarios and adaptation strategies, aligning with international efforts like the CrAFt (Creating Actionable Futures) project of the New European Bauhaus program. Two primary objectives guide this research. First, it aims to make future scenarios more relatable by breaking away from traditional risk visualizations. It adopts data feminist principles, giving space to emotions and embodiment in visualization processes and avoiding the presentation of data visualization as neutral and objective. Second, the project seeks to make scenarios more inclusive by incorporating intersectional and more-than-human perspectives, thereby moving beyond techno-optimistic approaches and embracing a holistic and caring speculative approach. Combining cultural collections, digital methodologies, and artistic research, this research fosters imaginative explorations for future living.
