The document discusses the changing nature of society, art, education, and business. Some key points: - Society, the world, economics, art, and education are constantly changing and those within must adapt and be flexible. - Past social movements like the hippies called for peace and change, but current times require practical action and cooperation between various groups. - The internet has provided new ways for democracy, transparency, and networking among people with common interests. However, business interests have also come to dominate online. - Education must focus on interdisciplinarity, entrepreneurship, and preparing students to solve tomorrow's problems. The Academy of Pop Culture discussed here focuses on students' ambitions within a learning

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. The Effect: individualisation and cooperation,
networking, the possibility to change the world, as
individual and collective, in dialogue with society.
The commercial of Levi’s as a mirror of this
movement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT16DcHcjRA

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

16. The Academy of Pop Culture
• No Curriculum, no marks, just competences
• Ambitions of the students as starting point
• No difference between digital and analog
media
• Learning and producing community

17. Share
• Students learn from each other, sharing and
playing, informal and formal networking
• Looking for ‘free’ education: lectures,
conferences etcetera.
• Just In Time Education…
• https://www.facebook.com/groups/13807898
3238/?ref=ts&fref=ts

18. 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)

19. 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

20. The Academy of Pop Culture
• Subjective Atlas of Hungary
http://www.annelysdevet.nl/
• Wild Street Parade Amsterdam, collectives of people, government and
initiated by students
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubpinjdv7xM
Incubate, a festival of independent culture, developed and executed by the
participants (conditional design, social design
http://www.incubate.org/2012/participate/intro
• Erasmus IP Island CQ
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=435620293136409&set=pb.155
834217781686.-2207520000.1353578986&type=3&theater
http://islandcq.nl
• Into The Great Wide Open
http://intothegreatwideopen.nl

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

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