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Social Practices

PROJECTS

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.


In Search of Otherwise (A)Positional Paper: Social Practices

Social Practices Positioning Paper


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.


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.



The SOCIAL PRACTICES research program centers on what constitutes a critical social practice and how creative work is essential in this time.

Global crises increasingly shows that our current educational systems and learning paradigms are insufficient and, in fact, threatening to life. An educational (not to mention a research) paradigm guided by the dynamics of competition, scarcity, monodisciplinarity, and extractivism mirrors the visible and dire consequences of the accumulation of global capital on living beings and the planet. Within these concerns, the following research questions guide the Social Practices research program: What are the shifts in values, practices, and infrastructures needed in the ways that we learn and live otherwise? How can cultural and artistic practices be constitutive tools used in an extended learning process to produce social change?  What are the methods to address, explore and unlearn the dimensions of oppression, power and privilege that are part of our own lives, relations, tools, structures, histories and beliefs? 

Along with the research line transformative pedagogy, the Social Practices research program, headed by Michelle Teran, works together with the WdKA Social Practices study program focusing on research around social relations, collaboration, and embodiment. These areas are open to intersectional inquiries into education and the commons, collective practices and collective infrastructures, alternative approaches to learning and self-organization, embodied and situated knowledges, decoloniality, politics of care, independent publishing and counter-memory. In Social Practices we are often working in multi-disciplinary activities that exist between artistic and non-artistic disciplines and question the role of art, design or any forms of cultural activity and labor. The research unfolds at the intersection of arts, activism, pedagogy, and community-engaged work. 

The Social Practices research programme aims to develop research that is ethical, respectful and humble. The research programme engages with practice-based research, and is committed to artistic, decolonial and convivial approaches to research through and with practice. 

The Social Practices research programme hosts an interfaculty research group on caring infrastructures and pedagogies of care as well as developing online and print publications, public lectures and workshops. The lectorate contributed as knowledge partner to two multi-year research projects funded by Erasmus+ and NWO on embodiment and hybrid learning, liveness, hybrid publishing and living archives (both in response to the Covid pandemic). Social Practices research is dedicated to augmenting networks and partnerships with local initiatives in Rotterdam, contemporary and cultural art spaces, national and international partners.

https://www.transformativepedagogy.net/

Contact

Michelle Teran – practice-oriented research professor (Dutch: lector) Social Practices
c.m.teran@hr.nl

ASSOCIATED RESEARCHERS

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Alona van Rosmalen

Bachelor’s student Social Practices
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Amy Suo Wu

Docent

Carla Arcos

RASL Double Degree Student
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Carmen José

Docent
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Clara Balaguer

Docent + Research Lecturer
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Eli Hooper

Student Assistant
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Gabriel Fontana

Docent
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Golnar Abbasi

Docent
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Judith Leijdekkers

DBKV student and Teaching Design Collective
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Julia Wilhelm

WdKA Alumni
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Kari Robertson

Docent + Research Lecturer
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Lila Athanasiadou

Docent
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Lotte van Gelder

Docent

Marijke Appelman

Docent
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Michelle Teran

Research Professor Social Practices
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Nana Adusei-Poku

research professor Cultural Diversity and Visual Cultures (2013-2017)
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Pablo Lerma

Docent
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Rosa Pons-Cerdà

Docent
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Santiago Pinyol

Docent
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Seecum Cheung

Docent + Research Lecturer
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Senka Milutinović

Research Station
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Skye Maule-O’Brien

Practices Leader, Interdisciplinary Pedagogy & Didactics
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Sofia Boschat-Thorez

Docent
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Sumia Jaama

Programme Leader Social Practices and Research Lecturer
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Teana Boston-Mammah

Docent and PhD Candidate
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Yusser al Obaidi

graduate RASL Dual Degree Bachelor programme