COUNCIL (DAI's consultative student body)

The COUNCIL acts as a valve between the student body and DAI crew in the management and delivery of the program's curriculum at large, including exam regulations and module requirements. We meet IRL during most of the DAI Confluences and then again online with the artistic director / head of program to report on and discuss the development of the curriculum, and to raise concerns, comments and suggestions brought forward by the student body. All these can be communicated by the student body to the COUNCIL via email, online forms, in person or at the General Assembly held during most of the DAI Confluences. The purpose of the COUNCIL is to ensure there is a platform for efficient and actionable feedback related to the delivery of the syllabus. In addition, it is to ensure that requirements and regulations are being upheld by the program, by the  crew, faculty and by the students. 

The COUNCIL 2024-2025 is thus an assembly of student "consultants", thinking together with the head of program (regularly joined by one of the education leaders or facilitating crew members) about all things DAI. While the council is organically focused on the now experience of the DAI student body, it also and importantly acts as a think tank - to reflect on the past and look toward how DAI will be shaped in the (near) future (when current students may have already left the program). DAI cherishes and values the intergenerational care of our students and alumni: over the years the COUNCIL has played a crucial role as a place for discussion, action and above all imagination ~  to collaboratively shape and re-shape the thing called DAI. 

FRAMEWORK

The DAI facilitates the COUNCIL in several ways:

As of December 2020 DAI has reserved a budget to pay a modest fee as a token of appreciation for their commitment, to the three-headed COUNCIL-team. Half of all scheduled COUNCIL meetings are bound to take place during every regular DAI Week and DAI will take care to always secure a suitable space for in flesh meeting (Covid permitting). The other half will be organised on line and will be exclusively attended by the COUNCIL team in conversation with DAI's artistic director/ head of program, sometimes joined by other staff.  

The COUNCIL consists of a core COUNCIL team and of a group of members.

Each COOP study group delegates two students, whose presence during meetings can be alternating. In practice this means: all members of the COUNCIL must be committed to regular, pre-scheduled meetings, but not all members have to be present every time (as long as they read the minutes before joining the next meeting). Not a member but interested in joining a meeting ? You are welcome, but you as well must commit to reading the minutes of the previous session.

If students want to bring a specific topic to the agenda of the upcoming meeting they will have to contact the current core COUNCIL team (Tuba, Alkmini, Helena) several days ahead of the actual gathering.

Ad hoc topics can be briefly brought forward during the table round towards the end of the meeting.

COUNCIL is part of the Syllabus and embedded in curriculum component WEAVER,  as such participation is credited with ECTS.  

See also: How is the DAI currently embedded in the ArtEZ University of the Arts and how is participation organised ?

CALENDAR

Gatherings are organized in-and outside DAI Weeks.

See the schedule here

15 April 2024 - 15 April 2025 Chair & Secretaries:

Helena Estrela <H.EstrelaBaptistaV@student.ArtEZ.nl>

Alkmini Gkousiari <a.agkousiari@student.artez.nl> 

Chair: Tuba Kılıç  <T.Kilic@student.ArtEZ.nl>

PAST

Chairs & secretaries: 

April 15,2023 till April 15, 2024: Elif Cadoux, Dalia Maini and Noam Youngrak Son

April 15, 2022 till April 15, 2023: Iliada Charalambous, Theresa Zwerschke and Cornelia Isaksson

April 15, 2021 till April 15, 2022: Ioana Lupascu, Marika Vandekraats

June, 2020 till April 15, 2021: Kari Rosenfeld, Csilla Klenyánszki

June, 2019 till June, 2020: Nina Postma  

June 2018 till June, 2019: Edel O'Reilly

Members:

2023-2024: Valeria Moro, Daniël van der Giessen, Sam Mountford, Stephen McEvoy, Saverio Cantoni and Maria Miguel Pratas.                                                                              

2022-2023 :  Ros del Olmo, Valeria Moro, Daniël van der Giessen, who is also a member of the MR (Participation Council) of ArtEZ University of the Arts, Maxi Smith, Iliada Charalampous, Cornelia Isaksson and Theresa Zwerschke.

2021 - 2022: Vera Mühlebach, Ronja Sommer, Derek Di Fabio, João Polido, Bambi van Balen, Lau ten Zeldam, Felix Bahret, Eli Witteman, Mirjam Steffen, Cristina Emmel, Nadja Henß, Marika Vandekraats, Emilia Kuryłowicz, Maxima Smith,  Mara Ittel.

2020 - 2021: Mia van den Bos, Michael Fischer, Hubert Gromny, Felix Bahret, Raffia Li, Niccolò Masini, Mirjam Steffen, Clara Winter, Derek MF Di Fabio, Dylan Spencer-Davidson, Flip Driest, Bambi van Balen.

2019-2020: Vita Buyvid, Fran Hawker, Assem Hendawi, Erato Tzavara, Flip Driest, Kari Rosenfeld, line kramer, Csilla Klenyánszki.

2018-2019: Lukas Hoffmann,  Samantha McCulloch, Vita Buyvid, Frances Hawker, Assem Hendawi and Nine Postma.

2017-2018: Lukas Hoffmann, Edel O'Reilly, Samantha McCulloch, Rabea Ridlhammer, Nina Støttrup Larsen, Ellen de Medeiros Nunes. 

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