2025 - 2026 FACTORY student led: Seeing

Demonstrations against deployment of nuclear weapons in Volkel, 1982. Fotocollectie Anefo.

APRIL 20, 2026

Session III: Cloud Watch

Led by Ivor Glavaš

When: 09:00 - 10:30

Starting location: House 484

Concluding the series on seeng/subjecting, an early morning walk is proposed observing clouds. We will use cloud identifiers, but will consider histories of cloud imaging and metphorisations, like Alfred Stieglitz work in early photography in the series Equivalents (1926.) and modern day war infrastructures. On practical side we will use an Super8 camera to film light and atmosphere, as we will engage in motion drawing.

Key notions: atmospheric events, system instruments, cognitive distances

Factory ~ Student led: Rock walk. March 2026

MARCH 12, 2026

Session II: Rock Walk

Led by Ivor Glavaš

When: 09:00 - 11:00

Starting location: Palestra

Following on the Bird Watching student lead in Northern France, in the series on seeing, we will approach critical geologies on a walk in surroundings of Matera. Passing through formations in navigations, seeing parts, continuities and wholeness, in a walking inter-actions, we well be discussing on subjectivity of separation as a scientific basis of modern epistemologies. Reading from Alexander Humboldt, an open air discussion will be held.

Early morning, prepare for a hike (approximately 2h). Water and snacks provided.

NOVEMBER 24, 2025 

Session I: Bird Watch

Led by Ivor Glavaš

When: 08:30 - 09:30 

Starting location: Ballroom

It will be a walk in our perceptual movements. Through observing patters and changes in the landscape, we will attempt to imagine subjectivity outside of us.
Also let's hope for birds. We will read and discuss on perceptual approaches, listening, seeing and touch, moving in real metaphors of sensing relations.
 
"The hardest thing of all to see is what is really there” ~ JA Baker’s The Peregrine, 1967.
 
(Early! Coffee provided)

 

This student initiative is facilitated by DAI by making it part of the syllabus 2025-2026 and by providing space and time for gathering. It is embedded in the curriculum component WEAVER and participation is credited with ECTS.