Conference: Chaos Theory and the Arts in the Context of Social, Economic and Organizational Development sponsored and co-organised by CSEND (Centre for

Socio-EcoNomic Development, Geneva), March 18-21, 2001; John Briggs, pp. 26-29, Pari-Perspectives 2020

Article

F. Duconseille & R. Saner (2020), “ Creative Placemaking for Inclusive Urban Landscapes”

Final Version available at The Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, Routledge Publisher

This paper contributes to the understanding how urban areas could be made more inclusive and sustainable and support the planning of inclusive human settlements. The main research question of this article was how to stimulate successful placemaking in urban landscapes for social integration in open urban spaces through the use of creative and artistic activities of mixed groups of artists.

The authors describe and discuss the evolution of urban development from being a physical infrastructure development determined by urban planners to a reclaiming of public space through spacemaking which is a social re-appropriation of urban space by citizens residing in the urban spaces.

Different stakeholder groups meet and exchange at urban places and co-create urban scenarios and scenographies by negotiating the urban landscapes through urban place- making projects

Article

CSEND organised a symposium in Seoul on 11th November 2014 under the auspices of the Swiss Embassy in Korea and the DAW International of ETH Zurich at the Museum of Art, Seoul National University; 1, Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul. The title of the CSEND symposium was “Entrepreneurial Undertaking and Social Innovations for a Sustainable Future”. Subsequent to the symposium, the DAW team conducted interviews with several of the DAW organisers including Prof Raymond Saner, Director at CSEND see:

Programme

“Hierarchies of Failure and Hierarchies of Solutions” Interview with Raymond Saner

CSEND DAW Society Day

Palimpsest Multiplex is a performative installation dedicated to provide a new perception of the public space and to raise awareness of how meaning (particularly in the arts) is constructed through interaction and communication. It shows the spectators that everyday life is a multilayered construct.

The concept of Palimpsest Multiplex is based on Raymond Saner’s idea of a “Multiplex Palimpsest”. It was coined during fruitful discussions between the concept developer and artists and art theoreticians who helped further develop the idea. It is a performance concept which provides an experimental space allowing the public to experience art in a novel manner.

While social media has generated a lot of new ideas, e.g. museum 2.0 (use of face book, twitter) or museum 3.0 (global participation via social media of real or virtual exhibitions), the downside of this use of social media is that artist and spectator might be further removed from each other than before thereby further reinforcing “aboutness” of art rather than providing contact and dialogue between artists and spectator.

The enlarged concept of Palimpsest Multiplex was developed by Raymond Saner in cooperation with Luise Kloos, Christoph Schön,

Seraina Müller, François Duconseille and Monica Dematté.

Palimpsest Multiplex 2012

An interactive experiential experiment to engage the art spectators in an aesthetic exchange while going through an art event. A art event conceptualised by Raymond Saner (2005)

Details for the concept design, click here

“Raymond Saner made an comparative analysis of the carnival culture in Trinidad and Basle. Both carnival festivities achieve significant economic and cultural performance and share common cultural roots.” Article was originally published in Baslerzeitung in German on 12th March 2011.

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NEXT- Verein für bildende Kunst- represented by Luise Kloos organized together with the Nomadic University an oasis in Graz which was titled „China goes to Europe”. The cultural policy of China is to create Confucius Institutes (CI) all over Europe and also in Graz. In a series of lectures, experts discussed the historical, aesthetic, cultural, economic and educational implications of such a project. During a special Think Tank designed by Raymond Saner, the participants discussed the local conditions for such CI in the European context. The goal of the lectures and of the think tank was to generate insights that could be relevant for other European cities as well. The event was a collaboration involving NEXT- Verein für bildende Kunst, the Nomadic University, the City of Graz, the Land Steiermark and the Embassy of China in Vienna.

Publication

Economic inequalities are not god-given fatalities. They are manufactured every day by human actions resulting in poverty for those excluded from our societies. The production of economic inequalities consists of very specific political and social manipulations, often not easily visible to many of us.
We produce economic inequality by structuring our labour markets in such a way that wages are not determined by supply and demand alone or by skills and competences. In many countries, whether rich or poor, people are often not given a job because they have the wrong skin colour, gender, religious or sexual preferences or adherence to political parties considered negatively by those who do the recruiting

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FR 3 RS

Interacting with local communities on local perspectives. Each oasis is documented by a series of research reports, publications and/or media productions for comparative and cumulative learning and research initiation on European leadership see: http://www.nurope.eu

The Oasis in Zadar, Croatia, was held on 23-26 August. Dr Lichia Yiu and Dr Raymond Saner represented CSEND and contributed to the Oasis with several activities. For reference, see sections listed below.

Programme

Zadar Oasis Programme

Visit to NGO on Dalmatian island

Notes from Zadar Think Tank 4

Presentations on Silk Road and Republic of Fiume

Silk road Zadar 2 LSY

Republic of Fiume D’Annunzio RS

The Anarchist Banker

The Anarchist Banker by F. Pessoa

Text with highlights for two actors and lead arguments

Sophistry of senior banker and structure