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AI-MAPS
Postdoctoral research on the ethical, legal, and social aspects of AI in the realm of public safety
Artistic Process Futures and AI
The pilot project Artistic Process Futures and AI aims to explore the role and potential implications of AI technologies for supporting the artistic process by developing and engaging in speculative design activities with artists.
Autonomy Lab
Autonomy Lab investigates new ways of understanding and creating autonomy, particularly in multidisciplinary artist collectives and self-organizations in diverse world regions.
Backchannels, Bloodletting, Portals: Writhing models for an institutional in-between
Collective research activities
An important part of the Research Station is made up of collective activities and events, often organised by students for students. Examples are the Reading Rhythms Club, the Re:writing group, open mic nights, research interventions and exhibitions and whatever else comes to the table.
Contagion, soil and the social body; on immunity and collective memory
Conversations on Educating Research
What could a learning trajectory for research look like? What are the different approaches, methods, and contexts to teaching research within the WdKA?
CYCLES OF RETURN; POETICS AS METHODOLOGY FOR IMAGINATION, MOVEMENT AND WAYWARDNESS
Digital Didactics in Art Education (DIDAE)
By autumn 2020, various surveys among higher education faculty and schoolteachers on the European as well as national levels had demonstrated the need for more high-quality digital resources to be used in higher education and school education.
Donna Haraway’s Pet Shop
Postdoctoral research on how systems design can be used in art and design education
ETHO
ETHO (European Technical Higher Art Education Organisation) is a network of higher art education technical staff
Experimental writing
Through workshops, presentations and informal gatherings, Experimental Writing will offer space and time to find out together what writing could mean and do in the art academy.
From Commons to NFTs
From Commons to NFTs is a publication and conference examining the shift from abundance to scarcity, from communities to markets, and how artists can respond to these shifts.
Going Hybrid!
Since the onset of CoVid19, there have been many ad-hoc solutions and experimental strategies within the cultural sector to compensate for temporary closures and financial losses.
In Search of Otherwise (A)Positional Paper: Social Practices
Social Practices Positioning Paper
Lexicon of research methods
The lexicon of research methods brings together methods for research in arts and design as taught and used at the WdKA.
Making Matters: Bridging Art, Design and Technology through Material Practices
This project investigates collective practices of experimenting with material forms of critique in order to reimagine the world(s) we inhabit; practices that often exist in between contemporary art, design and technological experimentation.
Matricentric feminism, critical self-organization, and autonomy
ME-YOU-US
Building digital 3D competences in fashion education for diversity, inclusion, and a green transition.
Not Getting It: A Study of Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Art and Design
“Not getting it”: a study of diversity and inclusion in higher art and design education in the Netherlands is the title of the PhD research by sociologist Teana Boston-Mammah.
Painting with Bulldozers
This postdoctoral research project proposes to observe and chronicle the unique properties of the Marker Wadden as an exemplar industrial and creative collaboration, and a case of adaptive governance.
Permacomputing in the Arts
Postdoctoral research on the application of permacomputing principles in art and design education
PRESAGE
The PRESAGE consortium is engaging the public and working towards aligning the decisions we make about human germline gene editing technology with what we value and consider important as a society.
Promiscuous Care Study Group
The Promiscuous Care Study Group emerged from the need to build up learning communities where we might recognize the abundance of working together in difference.
Redefining cultural entrepreneurship theory and education
Learning from visual artists in the Netherlands from an intersectional perspective
Sharing life; the possibilities and limits of testimony within creative practice.
‘Sharing life; the possibilities and limits of testimony within creative practice’, proposes relationships as the site for investigating our mutual interdependencies.
Situationer Workbook/Cookbook
Situationer Workbook/Cookbook, edited by Michelle Teran with Johanna Monk, Teana Boston-Mammah, and Clementine Edwards, is a book in two volumes on transformative pedagogy and teaching in times of crisis.
Slow Reading Group
SLOW READERS are collectively pulled and guided by the negotiation of individual interests, fascinations, and disciplinary backgrounds.
Storming the Gamergate
PhD research questioning how videogames can be used as feminist tactical media to expose the root of exclusions pervasive to gaming communities
Wor(l)ding: A Harvested Glossary for Social Justice in Arts Education and Beyond
Wor(l)ding: A Harvested Glossary for Social Justice in Arts Education and Beyond is glossary of references harvested from discourses of equity, diversity, inclusivity, social justice, and social practices, not only in an arts education context, but also as part of broader, systemic urgencies.
Zines as Academic Platform
Postdoctoral research on how to communicate academic research to a broad audience
Zoom-in
Zoom-in is a yearly series of film portraits following a group of students with different backgrounds, who are about to graduate at the Willem de Kooning Academy.