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Fifth TRADERS Training Week: ‘Modelling in Dialogue’ – Book of Voice-Illustrations

By: Jon Geib

16-09-2016

Throughout the fifth TRADERS Training Week, ‘Modelling in Dialogue’ (TW5), which took place in Gothenburg 23-25 May 2016, Ida Liffner and Marthe Roosenboom of Studio Goja were invited not only to document vignettes from and participate in the proceedings (primarily lectures and an artistic workshop, reading group and dialogue) but also to be free to ‘speak’ through their illustrations.

These ‘voice-illustrations’, then, made on-site and re-assembled in full here in a 170-page digital publication, constitute an ambiguous accentuation of the already expressive aspect of representation. The mode and degree of inflection of voices is ostensibly indeterminate though more-or-less graspable by way of participants’ own memories.

Special thanks to Mohamed El Sioufi for the inspiring spark which led to this.

The Book of Voice-Illustrations is available as a pdf at this link (46mb).

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About TW5: (full report at a later date)

Modelling in Dialogue was the fifth and final ‘Training Week’ (TW) [formally: ‘Training-through-Research Synergy’ or ‘TRS week’] of the EU project TRADERS. TW5 foregrounded artistic and cultural approaches to dialogue and participation, emphasizing the role of multivocality in both design aims and methods as well as the strategic role of institutions–especially those of the public sector–in supporting and advancing societal change in collaboration with artists and designers. Children’s and youth’s rights and perspectives, along with pedagogies linked with art, design and participation were also featured. A variety of academic, artistic and cultural actors, including the public, were engaged.

This three-day event was designed, planned, coordinated and hosted by TRADERS ESR (Early Stage Researcher) Jon Geib in collaboration with his host institution, Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Architecture and TRADERS associated partner, Göteborgs Stad Kulturförvaltningen (Gothenburg Cultural Department).

The TW5 Program is available as a pdf at this link.

First TRADERS Training Week: ‘Intervention’ [Results]

By: Pablo Calderón Salazar

08-10-2014

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The first training week of TRADERS project developed around the approach of intervention as a participatory practice, discussing and exploring the relation and – on the first sight – opposition between the concepts of intervention and participation. This week took place in the area of Hasselt-Genk, with its host institution being LUCA School of Arts (KULeuven) / KHLim. Throughout five days, we attempted to deconstruct and evaluate the process of producing a ‘participatory’ intervention.

For doing this, we used the expertise of different partners of LUCA through different steps in the process. First, we collected sounds and audio samples from different sites around Genk (Sept 26-27), which we used to produce an audio track with Jeroen D’Hoe (Sept 28), music composer and part of the research unit of the Lemmensinstituut in Leuven. The day after (Sept 29), we had the visit of Sarah Késene, Filip van Dingenen and Roel Kerkhofs, of the research group “Art, Space and Context” of Sint-Lucas Gent, with whom we discussed the way in which ‘artists’ (and designers and researchers) present themselves to the public, and applied it to our ongoing work. The last day (Sept 30), we had with us Annelies Kums, one of the researchers of pyblik, a research unit of Sint-Lucas Brussel, with whom we defined latest details of our interventions.

PUBLIC EVENTS during upcoming TRADERS Training Week and Summer School

By: Pablo Calderón Salazar

19-09-2014

News

From the 27th of September until the 3rd of October, the first TRADERS Training Week and Summer School will take place in Hasselt and Genk. Even though the TW program is only open to the members of the TRADERS network and the SS to different practitioners and researchers (prior application and selection), there are two public events to which we welcome other people to attend. If you wish to attend any of the two events, please send an email to Pablo.Calderon@khlim.be, specifying which one you would like to take part in.

Saturday 27th of September – 14u (@ Hasselt / Z33 Zuivelmarkt 33 – Kapiteelzaal)
Introductory lecture by Liesbeth Huybrechts and Pablo Calderón (Design Interventions as a way to address power relations in public space), and keynote lecture by Thomas Markussen (Disrupt to Engage: Interventions as a Participatory Practice) In this keynote lecture Thomas Markussen will focus on the nature of interventionist practices in design, art and architecture trying to clarify how intervention and participation can be seen not as oppositional to each other but as a conceptual pair that may enter rich alliances and hybridizations. At the end, Selina Schepers will moderate a short discussion.

1st TRADERS Training Week: ‘Intervention’

By: Pablo Calderón Salazar

05-09-2014

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*The program of the Training Week is closed to the members of the TRADERS project.

Annelies Vaneycken in association with Irene Pittatore (The Regenerators, 2012)

The first training week of TRADERS project will take place in Genk, from the 27th to the 30th of September. It develops around the approach of intervention as a participatory practice, discussing and exploring the relation and – on the first sight – opposition between the concepts of intervention and participation. This week takes place in the area of Hasselt-Genk, with its host institution being LUCA School of the Arts (KULeuven). Throughout five days, we attempt to deconstruct and evaluate the process of producing a ‘participatory’ intervention, and work with the expertise from the LUCA School of Art (KULeuven) partners.

Program: TRADERS Training Week #1: Intervention

Reader: http://goo.gl/MpRFSQ

Fifth TRADERS Training Week: ‘Modelling in Dialogue’ – Book of Voice-Illustrations

First TRADERS Training Week: ‘Intervention’ [Results]

PUBLIC EVENTS during upcoming TRADERS Training Week and Summer School

1st TRADERS Training Week: ‘Intervention’

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