‘Pharmakos’ investigates jewellery and body adornments at times of social conflict. The symbolic and physical agenda of the wearable craft object is examined both historically and in contemporary times. Key focus is to explore the ...
BOK (bodies of knowledge) investigates how public space can be activated through artistic intervention in order to transfer non-dominant (forms of) knowledge.How can you create a safe space within the public space for the exchange of ...
In his PhD research project ‘Unfolding Solidarity Poetics’, Robin Vanbesien explores the poetics and imaginaries of various self-organized and emancipatory social practices. Doing so, he aims to shed light on the intricate reciprocities between artistic ...
The PhD research project “Disarming Design from Palestine” questions how design can be a vehicle for empowerment and solidarity in oppressed realities. How can one through the practice of design develop sustainable positions in fractured societies? Building upon relations of trust ...
Bart Caron researches the foundations, characteristics and conditions of a progressive cultural policy. The pursuit of a cultural policy – arts, heritage, social-cultural work, participation … – cuts just as much through the ideological and ...
Cultural and Creative Spaces and Cities is a project funded by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union. University of Antwerp (through the CCQO) is participating together with Trans Europe Halles, Peer-to-Peer Foundation, European Cultural ...
Large cities nowadays are challenged in their cultural policy by many oppositional developments. The field of art policy has changed immensely ever since the arts, as part of the welcomed and embraced creative industry, have ...
The Future of the New Artistic Innovation in Times of Social Acceleration Arts in Society / IKK Novelty is thus systematically valorized at the expense of durability, and this organization of detachment, that is, of ...
The stimulation of the entrepreneurial self and activity, which non-coincidently concurs with the reduction of the social welfare state and public services (Bröckling, 2015:12), promotes a state of economic, social, mental and political instability through ...
As the neoliberalization of our cities continues apace, a growing group of opponents assumes merit in the concept of ‘common space’. In common space, use and collectivity take precedence over profit and expert authorship. Whilst ...
