From February 23-27, CARADT took part in the PIONEER SDG11 Winter School at TH Köln in Cologne
, Germany.
This was the first of a series of annual conferences organized by the PIONEER Alliance, an international network of European Universities of Applied Science in which Avans is an active partner. This Winter School explored topics related to the UN Sustainable Development Goal 11 “Sustainable Cities and Communities.”
The conference, which is peer-reviewed by international experts, was specifically aimed at young and aspiring researchers from the ten PIONEER partner universities who want to gain a first experience of international conferences and academic interaction.
CARADT researcher Renée van Oploo presented an engaging lecture-performance on Artistic Placemaking and the Commons, emphasising the role of art, not in solving social problems but in making social dilemma’s visible and thus addressable. Professor Olma delivered a keynote on The Role of Art and Culture for Urban Resilience in Europe.
‘Our research group investigates the role artists, designers and cultural producers in general can play in developing the aesthetics and poetics of a desirable future.’
Sebastian Olma is professor Cultural and Creative Industries. He works for the Expertise Centre Art, Design and Technology.
‘Within my practice I create spaces for introspection while exploring ethical dilemmas. ’
In 2017, I graduated from St. Joost in Den Bosch, and I hold a Master’s in Applied Ethics from Utrecht University. Presently, I work as an artist, am an active member of the YAFF art collective, and concurrently serve as a lecturer.
The research group Cultural and Creative Industries investigates the role of artists and designers as creative innovators and drivers of social and economic change. Affiliated researchers analyse the cultural and creative industries from a critical point of view and examine the conditions under which timely forms of aesthetic expression and social connectedness can actually take place within the precarious reality of this field. What economic models are required by artists and designers to create a meaningful practice within the aesthetic, social, and economic intentions of the cultural and creative industries? What skills sets are required for those artists and designers who don’t just want to follow movements, but actually shape novel social and economic models of the future?
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