The Meet the Makers programme facilitates meetings and conversations between students, teachers and researchers at UU, and makers – i.e., artists, curators, dramaturges, designers or other creative practitioners and professionals within the wider field of arts and culture. We usually organise a Meet the Makers event every block during the academic year, but sometimes

This year’s Transmission in Motion seminar finds itself inspired by approaches to knowing that zoom in on experimental practices of ‘making’. Making, here, is understood as a form of ‘design by doing’. Such practices of designing a technological device, an artistic concept or a didactic plan embrace unpredictability and contingency by refraining from adhering to…

Following a focus on Loud tools, a Horizon of beats as measuring tools, an Infrastructure of theatrical tools and notes on The display as a publishing tool this is the last and final post in a series of short writings focusing on current perspectives and methods for measuring transmissions in motions. These posts are rooted…

On a walk back home from the grocery store where I had just picked up supplies essential to my current lifestyle, I received three notifications. The first was a shared link on Whatsapp by a classmate from Amsterdam about a zoom call that was being conducted by Institution for the Arts and Humanites –Judith Butler in…

In Felicitas Macgilchrist, Heidrun Allert and Anne Bruch social science fiction paper titled Students and society in the 2020s. Three future ‘histories’ of education and technology (2019) the writers propose three divergent possible futures for technology and education. While their three distinct future scenarios are extremely thought-provoking and insightful I will reflect on the speculative…

“But in fact, critical education only attempts to perfect professional education.”  – Fred Moten and Stefano Harney (2004, 106) What is the future for the students of today? The question is flawed from the beginning, of course, because there is not one future for everyone, and who are these ‘students of today’ exactly? Felicitas Macgilchrist,…

Our relationships to those times called the future are fraught with presents. As Felicitas Macgilchrist, Heidrun Allert & Anne Bruch’s paper and presentation on scenario-building for education point out, our futures are entangled with “indeterminate sociotechnical configurations” (Macgilchrist et al. 2020, 76). Yet, their interesting and nuanced exploration of scenario building helps to point out…

This is the 7th and last session of the TiM seminar which took place via Microsoft Teams. This session begins with a conversation between Felicitas Macgilchrist and Rianne van Lambalgen about three possible futures for education and technology, especially in light of the current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Their conversation will draw on a “social science fiction”,…

In January 2020, during the student protests in India, political participation saw a new wave that had long been present and yet hadn’t been harnessed and recognized as a form of citizenship participation. This performance involved the decentralized production of knowledge in the light of weakening institutional journalism and governance. Dissatisfied with the news that…

Dr. Janneke Adema’s affirmative proposal of ‘post-publishing’ works to carry along the desired and leaves behind the undesired aspects associated with the currently dominant modes of publishing in the humanities. Hers is a speculative project, in the imaginative sense of the word. The early Ursula K Le Guin novel, “Very Far Away from Anywhere Else”…