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We are absolutely thrilled to share that our alum Helen Zeru (DAI, 2017) is one of the 12 artists who will be reimagining the future of their cities through design and creative problem-solving as part of the Creative Industries Fund NL & Prince Claus Fund's Building Beyond mentorship programme in 2023! The 12 selected artists come from Ethopia, Mozambique, Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria, Benin, Egypt, Libya and Tanzania and work in a wide range of design fields including architecture, urbanism, digital design, visual arts, photography, research and performance. The artists will work on projects that re-imagine the future of public space, community and functionality in their own contexts. The program aims to foster thought leadership, promote criticality, reframe design-based practices, and contribute to an ongoing conversation on how creative practices rooted in locality and community can lead to new perspectives and promote transformative urban agendas. DAI's journey with Helen began in 2014 when she warmly welcomed us to Netsa Art Village in Addis Ababa: more than an art space and an art project: it was a collective, a studio, a network, a gallery, a garden, a school, an experimental room, and so many other things. Following the term “Netsa” (translated to “free” from Amharic), Netsa Art Village played the role of a hybrid-crossing space between the urban and the rural, the formal and the unregulated, the conventional and the experimental. Today it is so great to know that although Netsa, unfortunately no longer exists, Helen and her work continue to make the difference. Click to find more information.

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Phantasy ~

Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro's 2024-2025 seminar for How To Do Things With Theory

Counter, Revolution, Film - Part II ~

Ghalya Saadawi's 2024-2025 seminar for How To Do Things With Theory

Factory Student Led

activities encompass all (recurring as well as unique) group initiatives and undertakings organized and guided by and for the student body.

The Word and the Wound 2 / And Now You are Ready to Sing

2024-2025 COOP study group in partnership with If I Can't Dance I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution (Amsterdam)

4 November, 2024 ~ Artist, filmmaker Inas Halabi and curator, writer Rachael A. Rakes join us at PAF in St. Erme to respond to questions and invocations by our students:

Eszter Dobos, Clara Rudin Smith, Annette Rodriguez Fiorillo, Alva Roselius and Ariell Zephyr ~ Conversations-in-a-form: THE KITCHEN.

Queer Forms ~

Grant Watson's 2024-2025 seminar for How To Do Things With Theory

Living Room: Rehearsals towards Place-making

2024-2025 COOP study group in partnership with De Appel Amsterdam

An Invitation to Action - A Basis for Hope

2024-2025 COOP study group in partnership with SAVVY Contemporary (Berlin)

Half Land, Half Sea: Transcartography of Resistance

2024-2025 COOP study group in partnership with ARCHIVE ENSEMBLE (Berlin, Dakar, Milan)

AEROPONIC ACTS 2025 ~ to be coached and curated by Elisa Giuliano.

Join us, once again, at Centrale Fies, independent centre for the production of contemporary performing arts, located in the he incredibly beautiful Valle dei Laghi in Trentino, Italy. More information will be published asap.

How to do things with Attention?

Amit S.Rai's 2024-2025 seminar for How To Do Things With Theory

The Weapon of Theory ~

Hypatia Vourloumis' 2024-2025 seminar for How To Do Things With Theory

Curating Positions: Voz de Tierra

2024-2025 COOP study group in partnership with Bulegoa z/b (Bilbao)

Trespass, Loopholes, Action Design

2024-2025 COOP study group in partnership with Hosting Lands (Copenhagen)

FOREST INSCRIPTIONS

2024-2025 COOP study group in partnership with Neringa Forest Architecture (Nida)

Evil ~

Ana Teixeira Pinto's 2024-2025 seminar for How To Do Things With Theory