Editorial and open call for issue 3

Author: Sikko Cleveringa & Paul Gofferjé

Open call for issue # 3 : Radical Reframing

For this new issue of Beyond Social we’re looking for artistic and theoretical contributions that shed new light on the problem of radicalization. Within different cultures and contexts radicalization seems to be increasing among young people. The central questions of the program: what can the role of design and art be in such complicated contexts? What is the best way to build trust and how can artistic interventions change the perspectives of all parties involved? Can we identify social messages coming from the underlying causes of radicalization and can we amplify them for the good of the people involved? Questions that were the basis for our program: Radical Reframing Identity & Integration (RRII) 2016.  The program brought a few together, such as No Academy, Haagse Hoge School and the Design Out Crime Centre.  Together we wrote a special curriculum based on a methodology named 'Frame Creation’, it was used over and over again by Kees Dorst and his team of the Design Out Crime Centre in Sydney, Australia. The results of the RRII program show that this method is a very promising (design) method for dealing with complex issues. More results of this program will be published at the beginning of 2017. Since we were asked by Beyond Social as guest editors, we selected several articles to illustrate the problems that we are dealing with:

• Kees Dorst (Australia) explains in his article ‘Don’t be a stranger’ what happened with the project in Sydney.

• Gintautus Mazeika (Lithuania) writes about autonomism in his lecture made for a group of social designers invited to Lithuania.

• Eefje Cobussen interviewed Stijn Sieckelinck about moral relationships of authority and radicalization.