Weaving Futures is a series of creative ateliers
part of Loop22
Weaving Futures is a series of open ateliers to co-create knowledge, share skills, and make place and space through culture.
Creative inhabitants of Sanem are invited to join making tools and tunes for a pluriversal future.
At the invitation of the municipality of Sanem a group of artists temporarily based in the Foyer, and from the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam, hosted a series of ateliers on collaborative forms of making.
Developed by designer Annelys de Vet and the Douri association, inhabitants are invited for engaging workshops; from video-diaries to upcycled fashion, from food traditions to rock songs, from French hip hop to Congolese Sape and do-it-yourself zines.
Hosted in the A Gadder Museum in Belvaux we offer a hybrid place, where multiple interests coexist. The participating artists have developed specific workshops based on their skills and interests.
Through collaborative forms of making we encourage new sociabilities and spaces of expression, of crossing, open and convivial, which inspire people to share stories.
During the first ateliers in 2021 we created a platform for reflection and exchange around creative practices — to explore the local potentials and activate the project during Esch2022 and beyond. It is a place for research, sustainable development, knowledge sharing and co-creation.
With these creative exchanges we aim to build towards infrastructures for a (sustainable) creative laboratory in Sanem, that can shelter plural futures.
The process
The 2021 ateliers were hosted by artists of the foyer and beyond. Together with the audience, it became a creative laboratory, where diverse and varied actors practiced culture in all its forms. The output of the first series of Ateliers will be presented during the summer of 2022, as a stepstone to a communal future — and hopefully an ongoing programme of ateliers in Sanem.
Starting from the artistic practices and interests of the residents of the foyer, we developed a series of ateliers. Each focused on one medium, tool or material, and was organized together with an invited (international) designer or artist.
A local core-team was responsible for the set-up and coordination of the ateliers. Over the course of the project, we actively imagined how we can (practically) enable other futures, continue the collaborations and set-up organisational infrastructures to make this happen.
Traditionally, design has been about objects and things, but Colombian anthropologist Arturo Escobar shows how designs (like graphics, tools, fashion etc.) structure being-in-the-world, and how our being-in-the-world structures the kinds of designs we make. He sees design as a central domain of thought and action, concerned with the meaning and production of socionatural life. How do we develop designs that enable new worlds and ways of being? How do we design for a world where all our worlds fit?
For our project, we wanted to ‘exercise’ this question; how can we envision conditions that make communal futures possible? Can we together build new, relational modes of knowing, being and doing? Can we open up spaces attuned to diverse temporalities and world-views?
The different ateliers were a way to unpack these questions, connected to the local context in Sanem. We did that through acts of making, designing, materiality, music and sharing space and dialogues, and archive and reflect together on these experiences.
Credits
Weaving Futures, is a project by Annelys de Vet & Yusra Amounah (Douri a.s.b.l.), in the framework of the programme loop - down the hills, across the land curated by Anna Loporcaro, produced by the municipality of Sanem and coordinated by Services for Creatives for Esch2022 - European Capital of Culture.
Weaving Futures
Concept: Yusra Amounah & Annelys de Vet
Organisation: Douri asbl.
Illustrations: Siwar Kraitem
Visual communication: Annelys de Vet
Partner: Disarming Design department Sandberg Instituut
Photography: Nael Nassan
Artists and workshop facilitators: Hazem Alqaddi, Elettra Bisogno, Nael Nassan, Julina Bezold, Fadi Chéquryah, Samira Mousa, Samira Vogel, Ola Allaf, Sadiqeh Eftekhhari Danesh, Fiyori Estinfanos Dawit, Anna Garcia Gomez, Bascam Hatice, Siwar Kraitem, Nazmul Haque Tonmoy, Priscila da Costa, Parisse De Dorian Boumpoutou Loukalou, Jonathan Braga, Omaima Mussa, Sarah Saleh, Jara van Teeffelen
Location: Kultur- a Geschichtshaus A Gadder (Belvaux)
Contact:
Douri non-profit-organisation
20, Rue Dickskopp
Soleuvre, L - 4492
Luxembourg
00352 661 158 300
info@douri.lu