Cancelled // Vincent Liegey: To Reshape Well, Let's Degrowth

"Degrowth" has emerged over the last 15 years. This "bomb word" has been used to open in-depth debates on whether infinite growth in a finite world is desirable or even possible. Degrowth first deconstructs the myth that growth is the central solution for the impasse our capitalist, productivist and consumerist societies have led us to.

Maja Kuzmanović: The Art of Futuring. Unknown, unknowable & uncertain

The complex uncertainties of our times make engaging with futures increasingly challenging. What could encourage proactive engagement with these challenges?

Introduction into RESHAPE: Imagining alternatives

Joris Janssens (Flanders Arts Institute) and Milica Ilić (Onda) introduce the what, the why and the how of the project.

Alexandros Mistriotis: Resisting Help

Alexandros Mistriotis is an artist based in Athens (Greece). He studied visual arts but his practice is oscillating between images and words, questioning the distance between poetry, theory and performance.

Tony Chakar: On Living Without Hope

Tony Chakar is a Lebanese artist, architect and writer whose work incorporates literature, philosophy, and theory, and has been included in numerous exhibitions internationally.

Marcell Mars: Memory of the World / Public Library

Igor Štiks: Activist aesthetics

Đorđe Balmazović / Škart: Pits and falls of group work

Cancelled // Pascal Gielen: Commonism – Organizing Artistic Life Beyond Creative Industry Policies

In his lecture Pascal Gielen analyses the relationship between art, politics and the public space in the creative city.

Cancelled // Juliette Hennequin: R-Urban - A Commons-Based Network of Civic Resilience

R-Urban (r-urban.net) is a project initiated by Atelier d’Architecture Autogérée as a commons-based network of civic resilience in Parisian suburbs.

Cancelled // Renata Salecl: Big Data, Art and the Reshaping of Subjectivity

In the world of big data, we must not only deal with potential computer failures, but also a high level of opacity related to how this data is collected, how it is interpreted, who has access to it, and how it can be manipulated.

Soraya Bahgat: Learning On The Go — on women's rights and activism

Laura Roth: Feminisation of politics and activism

Alenka Zupančič: The End of Fantasy Versus the Fantasy of the End

This talk will demonstrate how the fantasy of the End as some kind of radical catastrophe serves as a means of not ending anything and of maintaining the status quo.