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 ...
CCQO’s sociologist Louis Volont continues his fieldwork in Madrid. The question at hand: how can artists working within public space use the urban voids of their city and contribute, sustainably, to their urban commonwealth? The ...
Pascal Gielen coordinates the CCQO and he is interlocutor/supervisor of the multitude of singular projects of the research team. At the moment his own researches/book projects are focused on Commonism (together with artist Nico Dockx- ...
As a volatile medium, music seems to resist any form of rigidity. To a certain degree, a new work of art is being made in every performance of a musical work. Hence, the specificity of ...
This PhD project takes on an exploration into the relationship between the specific context of the creative industries and corresponding organizational responses as it investigates how the environment surrounding a creative organization can create opposing ...
What is your dream for Antwerp in 2024? For one year long, Plan A gathers and refines ideas, dreams, and proposals for our shared future from all citizens of Antwerp. Together, the refined ideas will ...
The cultural sector is undergoing many changes and artists and other workers in the performing arts sector face many challenges. There is an urgent need to use these challenges as opportunities, by rethinking the relationship ...
Onze Nederlandse vrienden waren gretig om van Belgisch onderzoek terzake iets te leren. Twee Belgische sociologen, Pascal Gielen en Louis Volont (Universiteit Antwerpen), schetsten het kader voor de avond. Voor een duurzame loopbaan heb ...
ARIA RESEARCH SEMINAR APRIL April 20-21 The “enclosure of the commons” is a popular topic in political economics and philosophy of law. Discussions about open source and creative commons are just two examples that come to ...
