designandpublicspace

1.) " [...] Nevertheless, it can also explain why we humans are always fascinated by and attracted to art: it gives us another way of seeing ourselves and the world.

2.) has a very interesting view on education which is based on community, collaboration and trust. For example she invites the students from her course before the year starts at her home, to spend a couple of days together, getting to know each other over making food, baking, gardening etc.

3.) A product designer is not necessery only as a maker of things.
" Design today is not about forms or things, but about a mentality and an understanding of the context and underlying structures. Our students graduate not with a designed ‘object’ or a style, but with a practice. They’re being challenged to discover what kind of designer they want to be and in what kind of position to act— or not to act. In this context the different perspectives within a design practice can vary from storyteller to agent, to facilitator, from host to collective, community, or from researcher to author or participant. We address design as a tool to deal with reality, to relate to complex truths, as a compass to find your way and figure out what matters. "

1.) How did the students communicate with the local craftsman in Palestina, during the exchange with the Academy of Art Palestine? Was it easy to co-create things? And how were the roles between design student and artisan?

1.) Is a Theatermaker, Performer, makes pictures, videos, installations, actions with public space

2.) Focuses a lot on analysing certain living areas in a city and goes in conversation with the people living there. Out of that are resulting different projects

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1.) How do you start a conversation with the people from a neighbourhood? doesn`t it need a lot of trust?

4.) boards that are drawn in africa completely ignore how the different tribes were living. Boarders were drawn in 1880 by a group of white men.

5.) What are maps representing? If you look at the atlases that are used in education systems (high school etc.) Often these atlas are seen as objective and neutral maps. (But Palestine does not exist in the flamish education atals, while Israel exists)

6.) Maps play an important role in how we identify ourselves. Maps are part of the discourses that shape our world. No singel map should be dominant. The identity of a region should be given by a multitude of notions, in which we as inhabitants of a region should have a saying how to map our spaces. What if maps would not be decided by ruling power structures, commercial companies, [...]but mapping would begin with including, what if we would allow boarders to merge? Who are the ones that draw our maps and map our spaces?