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ART EDUCATION URBANISM 1 2 RESILIENCE AND THE CITY: an opportunity to swap notes, compare strategies, establish common ground, and on some occasions, plot plans for future Art, Education, URBANISM collaborations. Reflecting upon the diversity, urgency, and vibrancy of these Selected Presentations from the Thematic Mobile Sessions contributions, and being aware of the ongoing need for 15th ELIA Biennial Conference knowledge exchange within the ELIA network, an invitation to publish was extended during the event. While this publication by no means represents the sum of the conference, which The 15th ELIA Biennial Conference, Resilience and the City: included performances, keynote speakers and panels, it Art, Education, Urbanism, was hosted by the Willem de nonetheless offers an impression of the Thematic Mobile Kooning Academy and Codarts University of the Arts from Sessions which took place at different venues across the city. 21 to 24 November 2018. Taking place in Rotterdam, a city experiencing rapid developments and challenges on a social, In terms of the publication’s structure, submissions have been political, economic, and environmental level, the conference organised in relation to the original four themes in which they explored four wide-ranging and intersecting themes: Shifting were presented, and alphabetically ordered according to Centres, Shifting Margins; Art and Social Cohesion; Art and authors’ surnames. While the contributions are not narratively Economy; and Art and Innovation. Each theme provided a woven together as cohesive chapters, there are numerous framework to examine how the arts can potentially play a vital overlaps in issues, methodologies, concerns, and contexts. role in building resilience, especially in urban contexts. For this reason, an indexical view has been provided where terms link together different contributions across themes. After the initial call, an unprecedented amount of proposals With the Index, words such as resistance, tactic, poetic, was submitted and subsequently peer-reviewed by experts in education, or intervention become threads that bind. The aim the fields of art, design, education, and the performing arts. is to provide cross-references and perhaps even unexpected What was most striking about the selected presentations was connections that illuminate another path of understanding how the four themes were interpreted, embedded in local these contributions in relation to each other. situations, generated from different learning environments, or manifest in unique artistic approaches. In many respects, While this collection presents insights into some of the topics the conference, which was attended by over 460 delegates addressed during the 15th ELIA Biennial Conference, it is from art academies across Europe and beyond, provided far from comprehensive, as not all presenters submitted 3 4 contributions. It also does not capture the various workshops and discussions, the walking tours, the vibrancy of the city, and the unique atmosphere of the locations where the Thematic Mobile Sessions took place. Nonetheless, it serves as a reminder for those who were present, a reference to return to, and a glimpse into other sessions which might have been missed due to parallel programming. Most of all, hopefully for those who were unable to attend, it is an incentive to attend the next ELIA Biennial Conference in 2020, which will take place at the Zurich University of the Arts. The editors would like to thank all the contributors for trusting us, and extend gratitude to the editorial coordinator and ELIA Conference Manager, Janja Ferenc, as well as to Barbara Revelli, ELIA’s Head of Membership and Communications, for organising the framework and resources to publish this volume. Finally, the editors would like to dedicate this publication to the conviction that RESILIENCE has an equally powerful twin, which is also life-saving and instrumental to societal and individual well-being: RESISTANCE! The Editorial Group Andrea B. Braidt, Ana Garcia Lopez, Renee Turner 5 6 AUTHORS (in alphabetical order) Andreas Liebmann Glenn Loughran Fee Altmann Sarah Marinucci Eimer Birkbeck Rosa Mármol-Pérez Sara Bocchini Belén Mazuecos Sánchez Joseph Boon Conor McGrady Ashley Jane Booth Aldje van Meer Andrew Broadey Nathalie Moureau Sara Burkhardt Szilvia Németh Francisco Caballero Rodríguez Paweł Nowak María Jesús Cano Martínez Katie O’Meara Adriana Cobo Elisa Palomino Christina Della Giustina Alistair Payne Alan Dunning Piero Pellizzaro Ana García López Barbara Predan Frank Gessner Demis Quadri César González Martín Endre Raffay Silvija Grušnienė Diego Rebollo Sophia Hadjipapa Henry Rogers Ulla Havenga Bernhard Rüdiger Linda Herfindal Lien Isabel Soler-Ruiz Deanna Herst Peter Sonderen Vikki Hill Ranjana Thapalyal Heleen de Hoon Andrea Tosi Richard Hudson-Miles Mai Tran Joanna Kiliszek Nancy Vansieleghem Ulrika Kinn Svensson Geert Vermeire Gerry Kisil Gina Wall Elisabetta Lazzaro Stefan Winter Kai Lehikoinen Birutė Žygaitienė 7 8 TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1: SOCIAL COHESION AND InstitutionaL Practices 13 Navigating OPEN SYstems: Artistic RESEARCH BUILDS RESILIENCE 15 DISABILITY ON Stage: A Pilot Project ON Inclusive DANCE AND PERFORMER TRAINING IN SWITZERLAND 27 UNITY THROUGH Pictograms 39 @.ac – THE RESILIENT Art School 45 HOW DO WE DO IT? Acting AND Reacting IN CHANGING CITIES 57 PERFORMING, CLEANING, AND DRAWING LONDON’S GRANARY Square 65 SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY-CENTRED Art Projects at VILNIUS COLLEGE 75 UAL Creative MINDSETS: Developing GROWTH MINDSETS to ADDRESS Attainment Inequalities IN Art AND DESIGN HIGHER Education 85 ArtsEqual POLICY WORK: Towards RESILIENCE AND SOCIAL COHESION WITH Cultural RIGHTS AND Cultural WELL-BEING 95 Supporting RESILIENCE OF MultiplY Disadvantaged CHILDREN THROUGH CITY/UNIVERSITY Art Projects 107 INDEPENDENT Artistic Structures AS A CHALLENGE FOR Consolidating THE SOCIAL CONTEXT IN A Democratic SOCIETY. WARSAW: DZiekanka GALLERY/Salon OF AcademY OF FINE Arts/COMING OUT (1972–2018) 113 FISH Leather SustainabilitY WORKSHOP: A Collaborative EXPERIENCE Amongst NORDIC FASHION UNIVERSITIES 119 CITY, Art, AND Culture IN THE EYES OF Lorca: Blood WEDDING AS A MODEL OF SOCIAL RESILIENCE 133 FINDING THE SELF IN THE CITY OF Multitudes – A SUMMARY OF THE RESEARCH BEHIND THE Creative NON-fiction SLIDE/TEXT AND WORKSHOP, 22 November 2018 143 9 10 CHAPTER 2: Economies, LocaLITIES 153 CHAPTER 4: SHIFTING CENTRES, SHIFTING MARGINS 317 LocalitY AS Subject AND SETTING – OUR Past AND OUR FUTURE 155 Art AS AN AGENT FOR SOCIAL CHANGE AND Development THROUGH RESEARCH Projects 319 Art AND DESIGN IN NEW Economies: Speculative SCENARIOS FOR REAL-LIFE Innovations 179 CITIES IN THE CITY: WALKING IN THE URBAN UncannY 337 Art, TRADE, AND Artistic DIVERSITY IN EVENTFUL AND Innovative CITIES 187 YOU ARE VARIATIONS AN EcologY OF SCIENTIFIC AND Artistic Translations 347 Resistance AND RESILIENCE IN Artistic Education 195 Imagined Alternatives: HIGHER GROUND: Leveraging Baltimore’S TOPOGRAPHY to TRANSGRESSING Boundaries BETWEEN RURAL AND URBAN 349 INCREASE SOCIAL AND Climate RESILIENCY 205 THE RESILIENT CITY, RECIPROCITY WITHIN THE Creative Ecologies 357 Smart, RESILIENT Approach FOR SOCIAL Innovation: CHAPTER 3: APProacHING INNOVation 223 WHICH ROLE FOR DESIGN? 373 DISREGARDED EVERYdaY DESIGN – THE ABILITY to TESTELAB & Guests: EXpanded Animation WORLDS (WORK IN PROGRESS) 225 CHALLENGE CONVENTIONS 387 WALKING IN THE CITY: BETWEEN SILENCES AND Emptiness 239 RESILIENCE AND THE Practice OF Art, FORM AS Dialectical SHIFTING CONTEXTS 251 Approach to THE Subjective AND THE Collective 397 AN EXTENDED Notion OF Theatre – Democratic Encounters T-LAB: FROM THE Theoretical to THE Theorotical: AND ITS POETICS 261 THEORY AS Practice IN THE Arts 413 SOLAR ENERGY AS SOCIAL Sculpture: Schoolcamp@CALAIS 423 THE Eco-EFFICIENT Art AS Creative TECHNO-POETIC EcosYstem 271 WORKSHOP OF OTHER KNOWLEDGE 283 CHAPTER 5: INDEX AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 435 NANTES – THE POSSIBILITY OF AN ISLAND 293 INDEX TRANSITION DESIGN 305 436 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 443 11 12 CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER CONTENTS Navigating OPEN SYstems: Artistic RESEARCH BUILDS RESILIENCE 15 DISABILITY ON Stage: A Pilot Project ON Inclusive DANCE AND PERFORMER TRAINING IN SWITZERLAND 27 UNITY THROUGH Pictograms 39 @.ac – THE RESILIENT Art School 45 HOW DO WE DO IT? Acting AND Reacting IN CHANGING CITIES 57 PERFORMING, CLEANING, AND DRAWING LONDON’S GRANARY Square 65 SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY-CENTRED Art Projects at VILNIUS COLLEGE 75 UAL Creative MINDSETS: Developing GROWTH MINDSETS to ADDRESS Attainment Inequalities IN Art AND DESIGN HIGHER Education 85 ArtsEqual POLICY WORK: Towards RESILIENCE AND SOCIAL COHESION WITH Cultural RIGHTS AND Cultural WELL-BEING 95 Supporting RESILIENCE OF MultiplY Disadvantaged CHILDREN THROUGH CITY/UNIVERSITY Art Projects 107 INDEPENDENT Artistic Structures AS A CHALLENGE FOR Consolidating THE SOCIAL CONTEXT IN A Democratic SOCIETY. WARSAW: DZiekanka GALLERY/Salon OF AcademY OF FINE Arts/COMING OUT (1972–2018) 113 FISH Leather SustainabilitY WORKSHOP: A Collaborative EXPERIENCE Amongst NORDIC FASHION UNIVERSITIES 119 CITY, Art, AND Culture IN THE EYES OF Lorca: Blood WEDDING AS A MODEL OF SOCIAL RESILIENCE 133 FINDING THE SELF IN THE CITY OF Multitudes – A SUMMARY OF THE RESEARCH BEHIND THE Creative NON-fiction SLIDE/TEXT AND WORKSHOP, 22 November 2018 143 Return to Table of Contents 13 14 NAVIGatinG OPEN ABSTRACT The paper describes the city space as a self-organising, SYstems: Artistic open system that can be co-designed by artistic research to be