COMPOS(T)ING: Regenerative Creative Practices COMPOS(T)ING: Regenerative Creative Practices

This symposium responds to the urgent need to foster a regenerative culture and economy in which human and more-than-human life can flourish. The aim is to develop a collective understanding of the common characteristics of regenerative practice and how these can work across scales, locations and disciplines. What are the elephants in the room? Which relationships - in education, creative practices and broader systems - need to be broken, and which revitalised? Art and design practices, with their aesthetic, material, political and transformative qualities and sensibilities, have a vital contribution to make here.

Discussions will focus on three interwoven themes: 1. Creative Practices; 2. Regenerative Economies/Human-Inclusive Ecosystems; and 3. Education/Didactics. 

Participating creative practices include Amper Design, de Kleverbergh, Land & Hand, The Linen Project, New Store, de Onkruidenier, Oyster Heaven, Selçuk Balamir and Shivant Jhagroe.

Also participating are regenerative educational representatives Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca, Anthony Heidweiller, Emilie Gallier, Nienke Terpsma, Nina Boas, Jay-J Taukave and Juha van 't Zelfde from ATD; Anke Jongejan, Martijn van Gessel, Ruben Jacobs, and Shirley Niemans from HKU; Una Henry, Kas Houthuijs, Loes Bogers, Aymeric Mansoux, Aldje van Meer, and Phyllis Wong from WdKA; Michaela Davidová, Delfina Fantini van Ditmar, Wander Eikelboom, Bas van den Hurk, and Annemarie Piscaer from CARADT; Henrike Gootjes from ArtEZ, Klaas Kuitenbrouwer from Nieuwe Instituut and Judith van den Boom from Central Saint Martins, UAL London.

Our keynote speaker for the event is art historian Estelle Zhong Mengual and our moderator is Shailoh Phillips. More details about the program will follow shortly.

COMPOS(T)ING is a thoroughly interdisciplinary collaboration, co-curated by educators and researchers from Willem de Kooning Academy, HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, Academy of Theatre and Dance Amsterdam AHK, CARADT Centre of Applied Research for Art, Design and Technology Avans, and Nieuwe Instituut.