01/09/2011 - announcement
Sustainable urban change in Stockholm
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21/11/2011
Waarom kunstenaars niet fascistisch genoeg zijn
Lees het artikel in het decembernummer van Rekto:Verso.
29/08/2011
Artist Participation in South Africa
The international PR campaign to showcase Rotterdam's robust policy on artist participation is now also tapping into the emerging African art markets.
17/06/2011
Denkverbod op liberale kunst
Column over de stellingenoorlog naar aanleiding van de aangekondigde bezuinigingen in de cultuursector.
07/06/2011
Maak liberaal kunstbeleid liberaal
Lees BAVO's advies aan staatssecretaris Zijlstra met betrekking tot de noodgedwongen keuzen die de cultuursector in Nederland te wachten staat.
18/03/2011
International promotion campaign of the Office for Artist Participation kicks off
The City of Edinburgh will be the first to host an international promotion event of Rotterdam's innovative cultural policies for enforcing the participation of artists in heightening a city's competitiveness and securing social peace on the local level.
28/02/2011
Culture and Contestation
The essay 'Neo-Liberalism with Dutch Characteristics: The Big Fix-Up of the Netherlands and the Practice of Embedded Cultural Activism' is published in the book volume 'Culture and Contestation in the New Century'.
19/01/2011
Art and Activism
BAVO's essay 'Artists... one more effort to be really political!' is published in the volume 'Art and Activism in the age of Globalisation'.
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13/01/2012
1:1 Extra City
06/12/2011
Primacy of Change
23/11/2011
Lezing Project Baksteen
11/11/2011 - 12/11/2011
(Anti)neoliberal architecture in Graz
25/10/2011
Hybridisering en academisering
30/09/2011 - 01/10/2011
The long march towards artist participation in South Africa
09/09/2011 - 10/09/2011
De nieuwe elite in Amsterdam
01/09/2011
Sustainable urban change in Stockholm
30/08/2011 - 31/08/2011
The architect as a human-being / EAAE Conference, Crete
05/05/2011
Bevrijdingsfestival
14/04/2011
Architecture of shared time
16/03/2011
Chto Delat? and Etcetera
Connecting collectivity, friendship, collaboration and mutual inspiration | Mediated by Gideon Boie
18/01/2011 - 28/01/2011
Debatten 'Cultureel activisme vandaag'
In zaal De Unie en het SMBA vinden in januari 2011 twee debatten plaats over BAVO's recente boek 'Too Active to Act'.
09/11/2010
Kunstenaarsparticipatie aan het KASK
BAVO presenteert de proeven van het Actieprogramma Kunstenaarsparticipatie voor Gent.
25/10/2010 - 26/10/2010
Duurzaam internationaal kunstenbeleid in Vlaanderen?
BAVO participeert aan de conferentie Joining the dots in BOZAR
The Post-Neoliberal City
BAVO will give a presentation on the social and ecological benefits of real estate in the Netherlands at 'Design for the Postneoliberal City', the first Civic City Conference in Zürich, March 12th & 13th 2010.
Read below the short discription of the lecture.
Other speakers include: Elisabeth Blum, Gui Bonsiepe, Tom Holert, Tomas Maldonado, Margit Mayer en Erik Swyngedouw.
The conference is organised by the Zurich University of the Arts Institute Design2context
For more information on the conference: http://civic-city.zhdk.ch/
Short description presentation:
Before even starting to imagine the design of a post-neoliberal city, it is of crucial importance to understand the way in which the current neoliberal system reproduces itself despite all its now all too apparent shortcomings. According to the common understanding, the neoliberal city is about concentrating all investment into growth sectors and perversely humanizing all of its disastrous side-effects. Although this might be theoretically true, I will argue that this image of neoliberalism too easily ends up in pleas for social concessions that only further deepen the grip of neoliberal thinking and action. In the Netherlands for instance, the year-long ecological struggle against the capitalist exploitation of the environment has today resulted in a spatial planning model that closely combines highly speculative real estate projects with ecological and social development. The erection of luxury estates in protected green areas, as well as the privatization of huge chunks of these areas, are today propagated as more accurate means to safeguard the natural landscape and open it up to the public. The fundamental idea here is not that of the compromise – in this case, between economic and ecological agendas - but the win-win. In my talk I will further explain this variation of the neoliberal city in detail; a model that more resembles the structure of the Möbius ring in which one smoothly moves from real estate speculation to social development and back.
