Ten thousand idiots will teach you how to write good plays. But it's also a case study of how we can ease, speed up and deepen the creative process, and what art education for hybrid artists could look like today. The title Ten thousand idiots refers to the countless voices that live, write and play in us today. Learning to distinguish your inner voices, to play with them and to switch between them at lightning speed, is the basis of the creative process.Order your copy at www.hku.nl/hkupress
Meertalige leerlingen krijgen les in een taal die zij (vaak) nog aan het verwerven zijn, het Nederlands. Daardoor is meedoen in vakken zoals rekenen en Wetenschap&Techniek lastiger. In dit project onderzoekt de HU samen met verschillende partners hoe het benutten van thuistalen bijdraagt aan betere leerprestaties en inclusiever onderwijs.Doel Multi-STEM beoogt de participatie van meertalige leerlingen bij rekenen en W&T te bevorderen, niet alleen op school, maar ook thuis en in musea. Leerkrachten, ouders en museummedewerkers leren hoe ze ruimte kunnen maken voor thuistalen, waardoor alle leerlingen een stem krijgen. Resultaten Wat? Een toolbox met meertalige strategieën en lesactiviteiten. Kennis over het benutten van thuistalen in het STEM-onderwijs. Wie? Professionals: zij handelen inclusiever door de inzet van thuistalen. Meertalige leerlingen: zij voelen zich meer gehoord en presteren beter. Looptijd 01 juni 2021 - 01 juni 2027 Aanpak Onderzoekers en maatschappelijke partners ontwikkelen samen meertalige strategieën. Samen evalueren ze of en hoe deze strategieën werken. Kennis en opbrengsten worden niet alleen na, maar ook al tijdens het onderzoek verspreid. Downloads en links
There's a growing recognition that the mainstream economic system contributes to environmental degradation and climate change. This jeopardizes human prosperity and poses existential risks for all life forms. Not waiting for global politics to solve the problems, Regenerative Placemakers show that we can organize ourselves differently. They engage with realigning human systems to work within planetary boundaries as a well-being economy. However, they face challenges, such as incorporating non-human voices and embracing the complexity of co-creation. Our transdisciplinary, exploratory research project aims to incorporate a lifecentric worldview in the collective transformation process when investigating: What tools, methods, and approaches the Stewards of Place could use to embody the ecosystems thinking and be able to integrate the needs and perspectives of nature in a process of decision-making, such that it is understandable and fitting for different types of contexts? Our research focuses on fostering a post-anthropocentric outlook, where human identity merges with broader ecosystems. Through the development of methodologies, we seek pathways to coexist harmoniously within diverse natural habitats, prioritizing ecosystem health. This perspective fundamentally shifts worldviews, placing ecosystem well-being at the forefront. Our goal is to cultivate an integrated approach to living that acknowledges and respects the interconnectedness of all life forms. Consortium Partners: Practice Partners are Regenerative Placemakers, referred to as Stewards of Place: Impact033's, IMPACT024's, and Oosterhout SDG's Local. Together with WEAllNL, they are optimizing conditions for innovative, regenerative leadership in the "Plekathon” pilot project, which will serve as a Living Lab for this participatory research. Changemaker: Stichting Wellbeing Economy Alliance Nederland (WEAllNL)- Bas Poppel leading development of a learning community of practice. Knowledge Partners: Avans’ Economy in Common Research Group: Lector Dr. Godelieve Spaas and researcher Ewelina Schraven, Miranda van Gendt (Plekmakers_), Luea Ritter (World Ethic Forum), and Nature as an Advisor, Inspiration, and Stakeholder.
On a societal scale, the ‘problem with work’ is that everyone is exhausted, job security has been replaced by ‘flex work’ and much important work had been invisibilised. While billions of people are displaced and illegalized from work, others have physical/ mental conditions caused by work. The problem with work merits scrutiny not only from medical, corporate or legal perspectives. It needs tackling without an agenda of productivity, with an open regard and embodied, intuitive research. Artistic research has this scope. It taps into knowledges that are underused/repressed, by involving the body, harnessing intuition, experience and situatedness, and activating a plurality of voices. The aim of this research is to gain a deeper understanding of what is (not) work, who we are when we perform work, and when we don’t or are not able to work. Why are certain activities or roles called work and what happens when the term is applied to activities that are not normally deemed work, but which include comparable elements? Three research questions are addressed: 1. What can be learned about work by regarding every job, or all the work, as a performance? 2. What can be learned about performance (art) by looking at it through the lens of work? 3. What are ethical practices in collaborative and participative work processes? The research is carried out through an artistic approach that contains a particular way of making, teaching and researching which is collaborative, performative and transdisciplinary. It proposes the body as a thinking apparatus, experience as a way of gathering information and doing, writing, exchanging and performing as both method and dissemination. This research aims to contribute to a better understanding of what work is in our lives. The research has social, artistic and educational targets and target groups, which are also intertwined.
