Art of Resilience about searching, flexibity and values Albert van der Kooij Academy of Pop Culture
Jun 24, 2015
Art of Resilienceabout searching, flexibity and values
Albert van der KooijAcademy of Pop Culture
• “If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea”
• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
My boat, my life
My search in life
• How to give form to my ideas in society?• How to reach World Peace?• What is my position in society?• To young to be a hippie, to old to be a punk
Nothing ever changed
• Society is changing• World is changing• Economics are changing• Art is changing
60’s
• Hippies calling for peace and new democratic order
• In a time of wars worldwide and in a changing society
70’s
• No more love and peace, institutes and government were also flexible and innovative
• But being practical, protesting and action• Recession…
80’s
• Cooperation and consensus• Cultural world, artists, activists, politicians and
entrepreneur creating a new world together.
90’s
• Slowly the economic system made a silent revolution and took over processes in society (in education, in media, cultural sector)
• Entrepreneurship and crisis• The answer of the old hippies: Wired…
90’s
• Wired: the Internet as new instruments for democracy and transparency
• business did not respond on this new development – it was to expensive and ‘dangerous’
• End 90’s, start of 2000 the Internet bubble burst.
2000
• Changes in approach1. Glocalisation2. Act local think global3. Social networks4. New networks based on common interests
And very important: business took over, an answer is needed
2012
• And now • Recession again• Europe and Euro are not stable anymore• And the question is how to deal with all these
changes.• The answer is simple: we did it before
Art is Changing
• How can arts contribute to society and business in a social economic way?
• Artists are not supposed to act in de side line• Intercultural thinking and acting
The Effect: individualisation and cooperation, networking, the possibility to change the world, as individual and collective, in dialogue with society.
The commercial of Levi’s as a mirror of this movement.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT16DcHcjRA
Education is Changing
• Interdisciplinarity as new standard for solving problems
• Student centered education• Prepared to solve problems of tomorrow• Entrepreneurship• Internationalisation
The Academy of Pop Culture
• No Curriculum, no marks, just competences• Ambitions of the students as starting point• No difference between digital and analog
media• Learning and producing community
Share
• Students learn from each other, sharing and playing, informal and formal networking
• Looking for ‘free’ education: lectures, conferences etcetera.
• Just In Time Education…• https://www.facebook.com/groups/13807898
3238/?ref=ts&fref=ts
Basics for our actions
• On the corners of the triangle you will find the charactaristics of of our Academy. In the middle the underlying values
Frontline/Niche
SustainabilityTrust
AuthenticityGrass roots
Social economic
Regional/International (glocal)
The Academy of Pop Culture• Florian Wolff: sustainable artisthttp://florianwolff.com/blog/new-year-new-shows/http://www.entertainandsustain.nl/
• Wild Street Parade Amsterdamhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffe-8uWiJZU
• Henri Kuipers went to Eritrea helping a music Schoolhttp://avp4eritrea.wordpress.com/
• Inge Grupstra designed a bench presented on the famous Milano Fairhttp://www.pietheineek.nl/nl/collectie/collectie-nieuw/een-balk-bank/gelebank
The Academy of Pop Culture• Subjective Atlas of Hungaryhttp://www.annelysdevet.nl/• Wild Street Parade Amsterdam, collectives of people, government and
initiated by studentshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubpinjdv7xMIncubate, a festival of independent culture, developed and executed by the participants (conditional design, social designhttp://www.incubate.org/2012/participate/ intro• Erasmus IP Island CQhttps://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=435620293136409&set=pb.155834217781686.-2207520000.1353578986&type=3&theaterhttp://islandcq.nl• Into The Great Wide Openhttp://intothegreatwideopen.nl
What do we need?
• The radical changes in technology, and society necessarily needs reflection on our action.
• Real innovation starts with an open mind, • but we necessarily have to change our way of
thinking about teaching and acting• Real interdisciplinarity: not parallel or adding
disciplines, but the question, nowadays as starting point
What do we need?
• Not only in our own subculture• Be present in society• Independent and open• Always sharing and willing to cooperate• But be clear in your values
You Can Do It
• You are the new generation• Thomas Azier, student of our academy,
working in Berlinhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edf9Yvz-b5U&feature=related
And now
• What is your ambition?• What is your most important value to work
on?