Closing Weekend in Gouda

For the closing weekend of the festival (June 20 & 21), we return to Gouda.

Conference

Saturday, June 20 – 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM

The one-day conference on Saturday, June 20 consists of two thematic blocks: ‘The Design of Regeneration’ and ‘Bioregional Finance & Alternatives’. The conference provides an opportunity to explore issues surrounding ecological regeneration in depth, both together and in discussion with Dutch and international specialists.

Relationships with the societal, cultural, and political context play a prominent role in this exploration, while we are simultaneously investigating the significance of this for the creative disciplines (art and design) and the role they might potentially fulfil.

The language of the conference is English.

The Design of Regeneration

In the morning program until lunch, we explore how ecological regeneration can be designed within sharply different contexts (geographical, political, cultural). What new perspectives can be outlined here? How to deal with the complexity of entangled ecological, economic, technological, and political systems?

Bioregional Finance & Alternatives

The afternoon program poses the question of how usable and effective financial capacities can be developed to put ecological regenerative methods and principles into practice?

Issues of ‘scale’ play a major role in this: Should existing financial structures be ‘bent’ to bioregionally specific (agro-ecological) ways of working – as advocated by proponents of ‘Bioregional Finance’? Or should alternative models be developed instead, on a smaller scale, rooted in the local context and communities?

Speakers include:

Svitlana Usychenko & Fulco Treffers (Dnipro Integrated Vision)
Max Latour (Urban Reef)
Suza Husse (Sensing Peat)
Klaas Kuitenbrouwer (Zoönomisch Instituut)
David Bollier (Commons theorist and activist)
Natasha Hulst (Schumacher Action Labs)
and others.

Further program details and the full list of speakers will follow as soon as possible.

Finissage

On Sunday afternoon, June 21, we will conclude the exhibition period—and with it, the festival—with a festive finissage program featuring artists, speakers, guests, and invitees: analyses, performances, perspectives, discussions, and initial conclusions.

Undoubtedly a fitting moment to raise a glass to the Biennale!

Program details to follow ASAP.