• Raise Your Voice | Dutch Design Week Symposium 

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    Posted: 10 October 2022


    A morning session on situated design and socially engaged art, critically examining their role in political, societal and environmental challenges.


    On October 27, during Dutch Design Week, Baltan Laboratories organises the Raise Your Voice Symposium at Natlab. A thoughtful morning session on situated design and socially engaged art, critically examining their role in political, societal and environmental challenges, with talks from Pablo Calderon Salazar, Victoria Mckenzie and Miliaku Nwabueze.

    War, global health, droughts, extreme floods and systemic long-overdue crises, it is obvious: there is a lot to reconsider, reclaim and restore in the world we inhabit. The creative industries are asked to contribute to the development of alternative scenarios to find a way out of this mess. But should they? And how?

    Date: Thursday, 27th October
    Time: 9:45 - 13:30
    Location: Natlab, Kastanjelaan 500, Eindhoven

    TICKETS HERE | €10 (incl. coffee and a croissant)

    Raise Your Voice (RYV) is a learning trajectory for designers working on these topics, helping them to develop their own voice within the complexity of these challenges. RYV confronts them with knowledges, stories, methodologies, and practices that challenge our society’s foundations and are rooted in indisciplinarity, complexity, embodied and indigenous wisdom. If we want to act differently, we need a different understanding of ourselves.

    In this symposium, the program opens up to the public of Dutch Design Week. We invite the audience to join the exploration of the participating designers and speakers.

    Before industry became industry, before design could be conceptualized as design, before forest became plantation, there were stories, a life force, a complexity rendered inert. Victoria McKenzie will take us into the essence of design through a series of stories demonstrating systems, ways of being, and ways of understanding land and landscapes differently. Moments in time, outside of the Western perspective, in which ‘alternatives’ have previously existed, demonstrating not only the potential for an alternative but the importance of dreaming such an existence. How do we reckon with the violence done to the Earth and instead create new ways of cohabiting on a multi-species planet?

    Victoria McKenzie is an academic-activist, educator and artist. Her work focuses on the interconnections and entanglements of the Earth where the realms of the individual, collective (human and more-than-human), and systems align. Trained in Research Architecture and Ecology, Victoria currently runs an architectural-research agency called ‘RRA’ Radical Research & Re-storying Agency which is informed by the question: “how can the pre-colonial past inform a decolonial future”.

    Pablo Calderon Salazar will present a series of scenes - between fact and fiction, personal or otherwise - that will attempt to express a trajectory of gaining critical awareness of his position as a designer-researcher.

    Pablo is a Colombian designer, educator and researcher based in Brussels. His PhD (LUCA, 2021) explored decolonial alternatives to design interventions. He is currently a postdoc researcher at LUCA School of Arts, exploring the importance of ‘situatedness’ in creative practices.

    The third speaker will be Miliaku Nwabueze. She is an anti-disciplinarian constellation architect, who splits her time between many places while rooted in Atlanta. She is a queer, Igbo-Black American born and raised in Detroit who writes, builds things, makes art, dances, and organizes. In her work, she materializes the abolitionist potential within decolonizing design by connecting politics to praxis. Her research seeks to understand how relationships can be an architecture for liberated ways of being and how the built environment can be a technology for liberation-based formations of relationships.

    Her session will be about closing the gaps between how we are and how we want to be. Using the technique of dance (afrobeat styles of course!) we will learn how to build tools of awareness and embodiment. Being able to reflect is crucial to shaping change. We generally lack the tools we need to reflect on our resistance and how we repeat blueprints that haven't quite worked. In order to escape cycles of reform, reflection is required to be real about the work we're (not) doing.

    Raise Your Voice participants:
    Asja Keeman, Agat Sharma, Ollie Palmer, Noa Jansma, Camilla Carmack, Lieke Mangindaan, Talisa Harjono, Sarah Kaushik and Rosalie Bak will engage in a conversation with the speakers, bringing their practice in dialogue with what is presented on stage.

    About Raise Your Voice
    Raise Your Voice is a learning trajectory for designers working on political, societal and environmental topics. The trajectory supports them to develop their own voice within the complexity of these challenges. Baltan Laboratories, together with the international partners Sineglossa (Ancona IT) and ProProgressione (Budapest HU) coach the participating designers to raise their voices.

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