Future Based Podcast

Is “gender” as a concept too simple? Does a binary approach to society do any harm and if so, what would that be? Do we need another conception of what gender is? In this podcast Floris and Karen Celis discuss how intersectionality has caused a paradigm shift in the long history of feminist thought. Intersectionality theory says that if you want to understand how gender operates in society, if you want to know how gender amplifies privileges and other generalizations, you also need to understand how it intersects with other strands of inequality like socioeconomic status and ethnicity. It seems that the only way to go about bridging the inequality gap is to put democratic deliberation at the centre of our understanding and to listen to, respect, and value the knowledge and expertise of minority voices.

Future Based’s podcast series on ‘more than human relations’, is hosted by Michelle Geraerts. It aims to move beyond the established frameworks of what we consider as knowledge. Michelle is a PhD student at University of Amsterdam's department of Anthropology, and she specialises in natural resources. She is familiar with regular as well as creative approaches to qualitative research, and employs methods such as sensory ethnography. Having collaborated with artists, she supports the idea of research as ‘serious play’ and aims to explore the blurry boundary between the natural and artificial. If you are interested in questioning standard epistemological views, the nature of existence or being as such, and interspecies studies, this is the podcast for you.

In this podcast, Michelle goes into conversation with artist and DJ Vanessa Opoku. What is the relation between our collective and individual memory, and the way we give form to our surroundings? What is fact, and what is fiction? Is there even a strict distinction between these two domains of reality? Questions like the former will be central to their discussion.

Vanessa Opoku is a visual artist, filmmaker and DJ and lives and works in Berlin, Germany. After her studies in Book Art and Graphic Design, she followed her pre-diploma in Maureen Mooren’s class of System Design and in the Expanded Cinema class of Clemens von Wedemeyer at the Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig. Since 2017, she studies Photography and Moving Image with Tina Bara, after two semesters abroad at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, and the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, both in the Fine Art department. In her artistic practice, Vanessa Opoku negotiates the limits and perceptions of reality. She researches how we can radically change the concept of our world, reality and all living beings in it by finding alliances between art, science and technology.

This Future Based-podcast series hosted by Floris Schleicher, brings you conversations about our political institutions. Topics discussed include: How are our political institutions designed? To what extent can they cope with 21st century problems like climate change, inequality, polarization and migration? What do the possible alternatives to our current political institutions look like? And what might be their advantages and drawbacks? Big and interesting questions. If you want to know more about politics, justice and the future this is the right podcast for you.

This Future Based-podcast series brings you conversations about our political institutions. Topics discussed include: How are our political institutions designed? To what extent can they cope with 21st century problems like climate change, inequality, polarization and migration? What do the possible alternatives to our current political institutions look like? And what might be their advantages and drawbacks? Big and interesting questions. If you want to know more about politics, justice and the future this is the right podcast for you.

Lisa Mandemaker is a social designer with a strategic, contextually […]

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Annika Kappner is an artist who creates multi-sensory compositions in the extensive field of painting, installations, sculpture, sound and performances. She makes, as she calls it, 'sensory-senographies', with the intention of bringing people into contact with our environment in a different way. Not only visually or by means of sound, but also with the other senses. For example by touch, smell or the feeling of movement. And also through inner images, through guided mediation. With her research she exposes the multi-layeredness of our perception. In this podcast we listen to Annika about her sources of inspiration and how she explores alternative ways to experience the world around us. In what (other) ways could we perceive the world? And why should we make even make an effort?

Dutch artist Jeroen van der Most combines traditional ways of […]

One of the main points of intercultural philosophy is that the philosophies of different parts of the world are treated equally. But even if we investigate perspectives of other cultures: we are (often) bound to our language use. Even the reference of ‘worldview’ or ‘perspective’ is referring to a certain kind of society in which perceiving with ones eyes plays an important role. Are there other perspectives that we might have to consider? And why should we? Because the way we have structured our society might seem as very logical, but doesn’t have to be logical at all: the divisions we are using for structuring our language and in turn, structure our reality, with an inevitable consequence also our society, are culture bound. What might seem as logical to the ideas of a European person, might not make sense at all to an Asian person.