The document discusses how society, the economy, and arts are constantly changing. It advocates for an interdisciplinary and student-centered approach to education to help students solve tomorrow's problems. The Academy of Pop Culture's approach focuses on personal, professional and artistic development through practice-based learning tailored to each student. Its goals are to contribute to society and business in a socially and economically sustainable way through grassroots, international collaboration at the intersection of music, design and their environments.

1. Art of Resilience
about searching, flexibity and values
Albert van der Kooij
Academy of Pop Culture

2. • “If you want to build a ship, don't drum up
people together to collect wood and don't
assign them tasks and work, but rather teach
them to long for the endless immensity of
the sea”
• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

3. My boat, my life 

4. My search in life
• How to give form to my ideas in society?
• How to reach World Peace?
• What is my position in society?
• To young to be a hippie, to old to be a punk

5. Nothing ever changed
• Society is changing
• World is changing
• Economics are changing
• Art is changing

6. 60’s
• Hippies calling for peace and new democratic
order
• In a time of wars worldwide and in a changing
society

7. 70’s
• No more love and peace, institutes and
government were also flexible and innovative
• But being practical, protesting and action
• Recession…

8. 80’s
• Cooperation and consensus
• Cultural world, artists, activists, politicians and
entrepreneur creating a new world together.

9. 90’s
• Slowly the economic system made a silent
revolution and took over processes in society
(in education, in media, cultural sector)
• Entrepreneurship and crisis
• The answer of the old hippies: Wired…

10. 90’s
• Wired: the Internet as new instruments for
democracy and transparency
• business did not respond on this new
development – it was to expensive and
‘dangerous’
• End 90’s, start of 2000 the Internet bubble
burst.

11. 2000
• Changes in approach
1. Glocalisation
2. Act local think global
3. Social networks
4. New networks based on common interests
And very important: business took over, an
answer is needed

12. 2012
• And now
• Recession again
• Europe and Euro are not stable anymore
• And the question is how to deal with all these
changes.
• The answer is simple: we did it before

13. Art is Changing
• How can arts contribute to society and
business in a social economic way?
• Artists are not supposed to act in de side line
• Intercultural thinking and acting

14. Education is Changing
• Interdisciplinarity as new standard for solving
problems
• Student centered education
• Prepared to solve problems of tomorrow
• Entrepreneurship
• Internationalisation

15. The Academy of Pop Culture
• Two bachelor degrees: Music & Design
• One program/no curriculum
• Based on personal, professional and artistic
development
• Practice based
• Everybody is different and has different things
to learn
• Always in the context of your environment

16. Basics for our actions
• On the corners of the triangle you will find the charactaristics
of of our Academy. In the middle the underlying values
Frontline/N
iche
Sustainability
Trust
Authenticity
Grass roots
Social Regional/International
economic (glocal)

17. The Academy of Pop Culture
• Florian Wolff: sustainable artist
http://florianwolff.com/blog/new-year-new-shows/
http://www.entertainandsustain.nl/
• Wild Street Parade Amsterdam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffe-8uWiJZU
• Henri Kuipers went to Eritrea helping a music School
http://avp4eritrea.wordpress.com/
• Inge Grupstra designed a bench presented on the famous Milano Fair
http://www.pietheineek.nl/nl/collectie/collectie-nieuw/een-balk-
bank/gelebank

18. What do we need?
• The radical changes in technology, and society
necessarily needs reflection on our action.
• Real innovation starts with an open mind,
• but we necessarily have to change our way of
thinking about teaching and acting
• Real interdisciplinarity: not parallel or adding
disciplines, but the question, nowadays as
starting point

19. What do we need?
• Not only in our own subculture
• Be present in society
• Independent and open
• Always sharing and willing to cooperate
• But be clear in your values

20. The Transparency Granate
• the Transparency Grenade contains 'just' a tiny
computer, a microphone and a powerful
wireless antenna. The Transparency Grenade
fights against the lack of corporate and
governmental transparency. It captures
network traffic and audio at the site of closed
meetings and anonymously streams the data
to a dedicated server
http://transparencygrenade.com/

21. You Can Do It
• You are the new generation
• Thomas Azier, student of our academy,
working in Berlin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edf9Yvz-
b5U&feature=related

22. And now
• What is your ambition?
• What is your most important value to work
on?