Aesthetics of Transformation

Discussion Series
Curated by School for Transformation and in collaboration with AIL

There are many productive synergies between artistic and transdisciplinary strategies, and quite often they overlap. Artistic strategies, just like transdisciplinary approaches, do not start from fixed onto-epistemic positions, but draw on a multiplicity of registers and perceptions to disrupt hegemonic knowledge regimes.

Likewise, both reject disciplinary boundaries in favor of transversal approaches, aiming to undo rigid distinctions between thinking and practice, embodied knowledge and scientific expertise. Based on a heterogenous mix of theoretical and practice-based interventions the lecture series asks:

To what extent can artistic strategies be transferred to other contexts? And is that indeed desirable, given the situated, open-ended, and speculative nature of arts-based research? Where do we need to insist on the autonomy of aesthetic practice to stay clear from the demands of transferability, valorisation and impact?

Together with a distinguished group of guests we explore what artistic strategies and aesthetics bring to the field of transdisciplinary research.

All events will be held in English.