Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content Commons For the Politics and Aesthetics of Sharing The digital book Common: For the Politics and Aesthetics of Sharing invites a collective reflection on the significance of participation, communal processes, the articulation between trust and …

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content Culture Commons Quest Office Culture and society, the commons and the semi-public domain as a third space The Culture Commons Quest Office (CCQO) is an interdisciplinary research community of artists, activists, academics and commoners within t…

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content Commons. Between Dreams and Reality Commons. Between Dreams and Reality addresses how cooperation and collective actions might influence political and economic realities. At its core, it focuses on the practical life of commons and commoning pr…

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content Healing culture, reclaiming commons, fostering care A proposal for EU cultural policies Since 2020, the pandemic and closure of cultural venues across the EU have made the precariousness of the sector even more evident. In response, the commons…

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content Commonism A New Aesthetics of the Real After half a century of neoliberalism, a new radical, practice-based ideology is making its way from the margins: commonism, with an o in the middle. It is based on the values of sharing, common (intellect…

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content News Museum (Without) Shelter - Lezingenmarathon over kunst, democratie en ecologie 23 november 2025, M HKA Museum At Risk, een collectief van kunstenaars, curatoren en culturele werkers, organiseert een dag vol lezingen, reflectie en actie in …

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content Releases Commons For the Politics and Aesthetics of Sharing Trust Building on the Cultural Commons Sensing Earth Cultural Quests Across a Heated Globe Passivity Between Indifference and Pacifism Hide To Show Memefying Live Music, Algorythmizing…

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content Nearness Art and Education After Covid-19 The Covid-19 crisis teaches us how priceless human nearness is. Art and education can't do without it either. Like works of art, people lose their aura when kept at digital arm's length. Art is lifeless…

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content Projects Current projects Culturele semipublieke ruimtes in kaart brengen (EmpowerCulture) - Pascal Gielen - 01/12/2024 - 30/11/2026 Abstract Het project 'Mapping Cultural Semi-Public Spaces' zal een methodologische gereedschapskist ontwikkelen…

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content Trust Building on the Cultural Commons How can we break through a culture of mistrust? Suspicion regarding our fellow beings, the authorities and enterprises is growing, blamed on passing the buck and feelings of impotence. We seek remedies in …

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content Pharmakos Adornment as a social tool Vivi Touloumidi investigates adornment as an active agent to address social discomfort, repression, and marginalization in the public realm. Her project appropriates and subverts signs of stigmatization empl…

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content Passivity Between Indifference and Pacifism ‘A pacifist is a rare beast in a bomb shelter.’ The war in Ukraine challenged our idea of pacifism. Should Europe take up arms or not? Can it ease its conscience only with humanitarian aid? Isn’…

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content Fragility To Touch and Be Touched In a competitive existence we hide our weak spots. When something comes too close, threatens to touch us, we had better shield our vulnerability. However, this means there is less and less room for exchange. Ev…

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content Imaginative Bodies Dialogues in Performance Practices Imaginative Bodies contains a series of in-depth conversations with dancers and choreographers, composers, visual artists, hip hop artists, dramaturges, a lighting designer, and a puppeteer.…

International Design Workshop Week search menu search content COMMONS (2021) You can browse through the workshops and biographies to get a glimpse of the 2021 edition. Or have a look at the brochure, the Facebook or Instagram account, or the photo report page for a full immersion! Brochure 2021 Cook…

International Design Workshop Week search menu search content COMMONS (2020) You can browse through the workshops, lectures and biographies to get a glimpse of the 2020 edition. Or have a look at the brochure, the Facebook or Instagram account, or the photo report page for a full immersion! Brochure…

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content Design Dedication Adaptive mentalities in design education Design Dedication makes a plea for adaptive mentalities within design pedagogy, with a non-normative approach to design practices. It explores an attitude in and towards design educatio…

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content Verenigt u! Arbeid in de 21ste eeuw De geschiedenis is, aldus Karl Marx, geschiedenis van de klassenstrijd: de strijd tussen de klasse die bezit en de klasse die niets anders heeft dan zijn eigen arbeidskracht. In de Oudheid had je de patricië…

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content Mobile Autonomy Exercises in Artists' Self-Organization Neoliberalism has taken autonomous professional values and labour firmly in its grasp. Traditional forms of employment are replaced with post-Fordist conditions in which work has become fr…

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content The CCQOfficers Pascal Gielen - Full Professor, CCQO founder Pascal Gielen (1970) is full professor of sociology of culture and politics at the Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (Antwerp University – Belgium) where he leads the Culture …

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content Repressief Liberalisme Opstellen over Creatieve Arbeid, Politiek en Kunst Vrijheid, zo heet de waarde die de kunstenaar deelt met de liberaal. De kunstenaar weet dat de beste ideeën naar boven komen wanneer hij in alle vrijheid kan werken. De …

Migloba search menu search content Escape commons as a method 7 May 2024 | PhD Workshop by Charalampos Tsavdaroglou Discussing decolonial and affective geographies of people on the move Makeshift settlement of people who escaped the burning camp of Moria in Lesvos Island, (September 2020) 7 May 2024…

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content About CCQO The Culture Commons Quest Office (CCQO) is an interdisciplinary research community of artists, activists, academics and commoners within the Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA), coordinated by Pascal Gielen. The CCQO focus…

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content Sensing Earth Cultural Quests Across a Heated Globe Sensing Earth states that our environmental issues are in the first place a matter of culture and aesthetics. Technology and science are not enough to solve these problems. Our globe is facing…

International Design Workshop Week search menu search content COMMONS (2022) You can browse through the workshops and biographies to get a glimpse of the 2022 edition. Or have a look at the brochure, the Facebook or Instagram account, or the photo report page for a full immersion! Brochure 2022 Cook…