'Organising as an Open Source'
Workshop w/d Valery Alzaga
12.00-18.00 hrs

'Designers' Inquiry'
Talk by Construction Site
for Non-Affirmative Practice
19.00-21.00 hrs

Tuesday 5 June 2012
In the context of
'I Can't Work Like This'

Like trying to assemble cats together in one spot, an assembly of workers of the art world might seem an equally impossible task. However, experienced campaign organizer Valery Alzaga is hopeful and advises that we begin with a small project and develop it step by step. But during the May Day conversation at Casco, sociologist Merijn Oudenampsen asked, at the risk of sounding sceptical, is it even possible to create a common agenda for artists, curators, critics, designers and other cultural workers in the Netherlands? And how can we articulate this common agenda?

Last year a lot of important work and energy dissipated when the campaigns against the cultural funding cuts lost momentum. Valery Alzaga and artist Matthijs de Bruijne hold a day-long workshop on "effective campaigning" for art and cultural workers interested in organising and building stronger long lasting alliances. The goal of the workshop is to share organising tools to harness all efforts and avoid the loss of individual energies towards future campaigns.

FREE REGISTRATION:
Please e-mail Suzanne Tiemersma at suzanne@cascoprojects.org with statement of motivation by 30 May.

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'Designers' Inquiry'
Talk by Construction Site
for Non-Affirmative Practice
19.00-21.00 hrs

On the evening of the workshop, we invite you to attend a presentation by Construction Site for Non-Affirmative Practice and contribute to their research on the designers' working condition!
"We are a group of young Italian designers who met in autumn 2011 in Milan, during a collectivised artist residency at Careof, a non-profit space for contemporary art inside the Fabbrica del Vapore. Since, we've been working to pose questions, study and experiment with support structures for critically engaged design practices.

As designers, we feel deeply involved not only in the making of objects, but also in the creation of relations, processes, languages and collective imaginaries. As a consequence, we believe that our research should rise questions about what kind of society we want to contribute to with our work and to question the role we play in the economic system we are living in."