Values, not money Sharing instead of competing Learning takes place in practice The society is the place where we live: Participating Cooperating Students work in the outside world

1. (International) Networking
International Week/Mediapolis
Albert van der Kooij

2. Minerva Academy of Pop Culture
• Hanze University of Applied Sciences (situated
in Groningen)
• Minerva Art Academy (situated in Groningen)
• Academy of Pop Culture 250 students
(situated in Leeuwarden)

3. The Academy of Pop Culture
• Two bachelor degrees: Music & Design
• One program/no curriculum
• In 2014 one bachelor: bachelor of Popular Culture
• Based on personal, professional and artistic
development
• Practice based
• Everybody is different and has different things to learn
• Always in the context of your environment and society
• Share and play

4. Technology is Changing
• Fast technological development
• Internet
• Knowledge based development
• Innovation and complex matters
(environment, food problem, energy, …)
• More knowledge than we ever can learn
• The consumer as producer

5. Art is Changing
• How can arts contribute to society and
business in a social economic way?
• Artists are not supposed to act in de side line
• Intercultural thinking and acting

6. Education is Changing
• Interdisciplinarity as new standard for solving
problems
• Student centered education
• Prepared to solve problems of tomorrow
• Entrepreneurship
• Internationalisation

7. • We believe in the capacities and capabilities of
people

9. Basics for our actions
• On the corners of the triangle you will find the charactaristics
of of our Academy. In the middle the underlying values
Sustainable
Innovation
Connection
Trust
Dialogue
Authenticity
Grass roots
Social
economic
Regional/International
(glocal)

10. Networking, Education &
Entrepreneurship
• Values, not money
• Sharing instead of competing
• Learning takes place in practice
• The society is the place where we live:
– Participating
– Cooperating
Students work in the outside world

11. The Academy of Pop Culture
• No Curriculum, no marks, just competences
• Ambitions of the students as starting point
• No difference between digital and analog
media
• Learning and producing community

12. Share
• Students learn from each other, sharing and
playing, informal and formal networking
• Looking for ‘free’ education: lectures,
conferences etcetera.
• Just In Time Education…
• https://www.facebook.com/groups/13807898
3238/?ref=ts&fref=ts

13. The Academy of Pop Culture
• Subjective Atlas of Hungary
http://www.annelysdevet.nl/
• Wild Street Parade Amsterdam, collectives of people, government and
initiated by students
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubpinjdv7xM
Incubate, a festival of independent culture, developed and executed by the
participants (conditional design, social design
http://www.incubate.org/2012/participate/intro
• Erasmus IP Island CQ
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=435620293136409&set=pb.155
834217781686.-2207520000.1353578986&type=3&theater
http://islandcq.nl
• Into The Great Wide Open
http://intothegreatwideopen.nl

14. The Academy of Pop Culture
• Florian Wolff: sustainable artist
http://florianwolff.com/blog/new-year-new-shows/
http://www.entertainandsustain.nl/
• Wild Street Parade Amsterdam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffe-8uWiJZU
• Thomas Azier went to work in Berlin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edf9Yvz-b5U&feature=related
• Jair Wassink started a concepting and communication business with people with the syndrom of
Down
• http://www.jongenbelegen.com/ikdenkhetverschil/
• Henri Kuipers went to Eritrea helping a music School
http://avp4eritrea.wordpress.com/

15. Not just a festival
• Into The Great Wide Open
• IntoThe Great Wide Open: a festival of Music, Arts and
Community, based on the island Vlieland
• Students work in production, as artist, volunteer,
developing community activities, workshops, art
programs
• Not based on cooperation contracts, but on the
initiative of the students themselves
• Sustainable, focused on their future and the future of
the community on that Island
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIJKiWoFDjQ

16. What do we need?
• Be present in society
• Independent and open
• Always sharing and willing to cooperate
• Local and international
• But be clear in your values
• Education is fun
• Research as skill for exploring knowledge

17. IslandCQ- http://islandcq.nl
• We build our international network bottom up
• IslandCQ: students, artists, lecturers and researchers that
research urgent questions of nowadays society. In an
isolated situation, but always connected to the surrounding
environment

18. The start and history
• Cooperation with local government of
Ameland (NL)
• The question: profile Ameland as a modern,
innovative, artistic island
• The solution: The Island Festival, festival of
creating awareness about sustainability and
energy

19. ICQ 10
• Island "Creative Quarantine" is an intensive,
location based, interactive workshop week for
students, teachers, scientists and artists.
IslandCQ is traveling through the participating
countries of Latvia, Hungary, Finland and the
Netherlands. Workshops on art, music, media,
technology, and sustainable development are
at the heart of the creative laboratory.

20. ICQ10
• Performances
• Lectures
• Workshops
• The results… http://islandcq.nl/

21. ICQ12
• Irbene, Ventspils Latvia
• The theme “Power & Control”
• A research about the influence of media and
internet on our daily life and on our privacy
• http://vimeo.com/41918369#at=0
• This impressive realm of wild nature and history
was our primary research location during the
exchange week.
• The results...

22. The development of the concept
• From a festival about sustainability and self
supporting into an event that researches
social and political sustainabilty

23. Crisis! Re/Constructing Europe

24. Komárom, Hungary

25. International
• A powerful and sustainable network in the
Netherlands, Finland, Latvia, Hungary, Spain,
…
• Students built their own network and work in
NY, Berlin, London, IJsland, …
• Sharing your network: students, academy,
society
• You cannot build communities…

26. IslandCQ