Teacher Directory
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Cultural Diversity
Amy Suo Wu
Practice Year 4-3-2
http://amysuowu.net https://amysuowu.hotglue.me https://thenewnushu.hotglue.me Lecture: Tactics and Poetics of Invisibility https://vimeo.com/241503663
Bio
An artist, designer, and researcher
Since 2015, she has engaged in steganographic practices such as hiding techniques, evasion tactics, and covert communication as acts of protection, survival and resistance in the face of oppression and violence. This research is now published under the title A Cookbook of Invisible Writing through Onomatopee. Her most recent interest and practice circles around literal and metaphorical approaches of mending, design as remittance and self-fulfilling prophecy and how text and textile might be woven together to form embodied publishing. Wu has co-organised the annual zine festival Zine Camp in Rotterdam between 2014-2019. From 2013-2016, she co-ran Eyesberg, a graphic design studio motivated by conceptual and experimental approaches. She was awarded the Grant programme for Talent Development from Creative Industries Fund NL, as well as two studio residences at I: project space in Beijing and ZKU in Berlin. Recent solo and group exhibitions have been held at Artspace Ideas Platform, Sydney; Drugo More, Croatia; Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana; Seoul Mediacity Biennale; Espace Multimédia Gantner, France; and I: project space Beijing. She is currently a tutor and graduation supervisor at Experimental Publishing at Piet Zwart Institute and practice teacher in Cultural Diversity at Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam.
Gabriel Fontana
Year 3–2–1 Practice
https://www.multi-form.org/
Bio
A social designer
Gabriel Fontana is a social designer who investigates systems of value, norms and knowledge production. By understanding the body as a learning tool, his design practice investigates how our bodies perform, internalise and reproduce social norms. He proposes ways that this can be unlearnt through new pedagogies, activities and actions to imagine and introduce new value systems. Sport and physical education have been his main field of research for the past three years. In this context, Gabriel develops alternative team sport games that position Physical Education as queer pedagogy. His work is applied both in daily social settings (e.g. primary schools, sport clubs) and academic contexts as well as in cultural institutions (e.g. BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht; Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht). He graduated cum laude from the Design Academy Eindhoven (NL) with a master’s in Social Design and holds a bachelor’s degree from Saint-Etienne Higher School of Art and Design (FR). His work has been awarded by the multiple design prizes (Rotterdam New Talent Award 2018, Paris Design Forum 2018) and diverse design grants (Stimuleringsfonds, CityLab10 and CBK Rotterdam).
Jay Tan
Year 3 Practice
https://jaytan.hotglue.me/
Bio
An artist
Makes sculpture, performance, sound and video. She grew up in South London during the eighties, assuming most heads of state were female. Currently, she teaches Fine Art at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and is based in Rotterdam, where she also co-runs new community space, Tender Center. She completed her MFA at the Piet Zwart Institute in 2010 and was a 2014/15 resident at the Rijksakademie. She has presented work at Kunstverein (Amsterdam), Ujazdowski Castle, Centre for Contemporary Art (Warsaw), Ellen de Bruijne Projects (Amsterdam), Gallerie van Gelder (Amsterdam), Futura (Prague), Vleeshal (Middleburg), the CAC (Vilnius), Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam), Hollybush Gardens (London), Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art (Rotterdam) and RongWrong (Amsterdam).
Teana Boston-Mammah
Years 4-3-2-1 Theory
Bio
A sociologist
She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology at Essex University (UK) and a Master of Urban Studies and Public Policy at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. She is particularly interested in notions of identity in an urban context. The first ten years of her career she worked as a teacher of sociology in London. In the Netherlands, she went on to develop her research and policy advising skills. She worked for over eleven years as a policy advisor/researcher for Scala, a non-profit expertise center for gender and diversity, in Rotterdam. Research areas include: the glass ceiling, emancipation in Rotterdam, radicalisation, fatherhood, sexual diversity and gendered social contacts patterns. From 2012 she has worked as a consultant and researcher for various organisations in Rotterdam, Formaat, Het Peutercollege and the research center Creating 010. In her free time Teana organises, as co-founder of the foundation RotterdamINK, various events, in the context of women’s empowerment issues. Teana is a board member of various nonprofits. Her research on gender and social contact theory in a neighbourhood in South Rotterdam is via Emerald publishers accessible and called “Women and the Gender Gap”.
New Earth
Gaspard Bos
Years 4-1 Theory/Practice
http://gaspardbos.com
Bio
A transition designer.
Gaspard calls himself 'a relationship therapist for people and things' or 'a transition designer'. His self-appointed mission for sustainable design and entrepreneurial and emperical attitude have led him to see the contradictions that the sustainability paradigm holds and subsequently to research the philosophical notions that underpin this modern human predicament. His parents being physicists sparked his fascination with technology which he expored at TU Delft to later recognize its implication in neoliberal society. Of late this fascination has had him diving into the coding of machine learning algorithms while at the same time considering their ethical repercussions. While he chooses to work on self initiated projects/ventures, often in the field of circular economym that propose alternatives to traditional forms of business, these projects increasingly form the soil for a more contemplative practice; for example investigating the socio-cultural conditions of child-rearing in the west and questioning the nature-culture dichotomies that dominate the discourse around child-rearing and parenthood. In New Earth, Gaspard teaches storytelling in which he uses theory of structural linguistics and material semiotic analysis to help the students come up with narratives for a new earth. When he's not teaching he works on Good Fashion Friend, a startup that helps people create secondhand and vintage wardrobes using online tools. To balance out all this serious stuff he also makes music, goes dancing, bouldering, meditates, does yoga, loves to play board/card games with friends and seeks out nature.
Lizanne Dirkx
years 4-3-2-1 Theory/Practice
http://www.lizannedirkx.com/
Bio
A designer, researcher, and facilitator
++ Designer, researcher, and workshop facilitator at Superuse Studios, INSIDE, Upstyle Industries ++ Previous projects have involved schools, libraries, cultural institutes, museums, institutes for sustainability, companies, communities, independent organizations ++ Specialised in sustainability, social design, materials and crafts, the circular economy ++ Studied: MA Sustainable Design at the University of Brighton; BA Product Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven
Isaac Monte
Years 3-2-1 Theory/Practice
http://isaacmonte.nl
Bio
A designer'
Fascinated by societal sustainability I am interested in unusual, new materials and how I can manipulate those. By means of combining technology, art and science, I show how art can contribute to a strategy of sustainable development. Since graduating in 2013 I have focused on understanding, controlling and manipulating unusual materials. In projects such as Filter Factory (2013) and Leek Packaging (2017), I have explored the possibilities of using waste streams to create new opportunities. Since 2015 I have been combining waste streams such as overdue foods with new, promising technologies in synthetic biology. This resulted in projects like The Art of Deception and The Meat Project. Within my work I combine different media, using techniques and media tools either to experiment and document or to strengthen the message with video and visual images.
Iris Schutten
Years 3-4 Theory/Practice
https://www.irisschutten.net/
Bio
An (an-)architect, curator, and freezone organizer
Initiates, develops, curates, writes and teaches about transition in relation to art, design, architecture, public space and economy. She is interested in the commons and at the moment develops EnergieKas - a rooftop greenhouse that both generates energy and functions as a tropical community garden and testing ground for regenerative design. She also co-runs Langebeesten Energiek, a cooperation for a climate friendly old city centre in The Hague. There she developed Paardenkracht, a community owned solar energy cooperation. Next to her own practice she teaches ‘New Earth‘ at WdKA. Here she initiated Beyond Social, a collaborative research and publishing platform on social design, was involved in curriculum innovation regarding Spatial Design, Sustainability and New Earth and coördinated the Social Practices for some years. Earlier she worked as an (an-)architect on the development of various self-organized freezones, including the NDSM terrain in Amsterdam and Grote Pyr in The Hague. She co-developed several public art projects including the Laboratory for the Interim and the prize-winning interactive installation Between Realities, the Dutch contribution for Prague Quadrennial 2015. As a writer/editor she was involved in S+RO, Archined, Ruimtevolk and the publication Hotel Transvaal, Stedelijke Transformatie in the Tussentijd / Between Times.
Powerplay
Golnar Abbasi
Years 4-3-2 Theory
https://golnarabbasi.com/ https://worknot.info/ https://sarmadmagazine.com/
Bio
An artist/architect, researcher, and publisher
Her work consists of a hybrid of practices such as research, writing, curating, organising, independent publishing, teaching, making, and spatial intervention. She is a founder and editor of Sarmad, a platform dedicated to politics of image and practices of image-making; and a co-founder of the collective of cognitarians/makers WORKNOT! devoted to discuss precarities of living practices today through spatial interventions as well as research. Her work is also concerned with notion(s) of spatiality, coloniality, practices of resistance, and construction of histories. Her work has been shown in Venice Biennale of Architecture, Sharjah Architecture Triennial, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Architecture Banal, among others. She holds a Masters degree from The Berlage and has been in residence at Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Faculty of Architecture and Urban Environment, TU Delft, where she conducts her academic project on politics of domesticity. She teaches at Willem de Kooning Academie (Social Practices), Piet Zwarte Instituut (MIARD), and the Faculty of Architecture at TU Delft, along with exploring experimental pedagogical practices within the framework of Sarmad.
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