Maki Suzuki is a member of the graphic design collective Åbäke (UK), which is international in membership and eclectic in interests. The members Patrick Lacey, Benjamin Reichen, Kajsa Stahl and Maki Suzuki have worked together since graduating from the Royal College of Art in London. In addition they are also singers, painters, photographers, curators, fashion designers and DJs. Members of Åbäke have founded the record and fashion label Kitsuné, the architectural production Sexymachinery, the publishing house Dent-De-Leone, the Victoria & AlferD museum project, investigation group Suzuki åffice and are agents of the artist Charlotte York.
Dr. Sebastian Groes is Senior lecturer in English Literature at the Department of English and Creative Writing, Roehampton University, United Kingdom. He specialises in modernist and contemporary fiction, has written on authors including Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro, and published The Making of London. He is the Principal Investigator of the AHRC and Welcome Trust-funded The Memory Network. The Memory Network is a multi-disciplinary enterprise that brings together researchers, authors, artists, and organizations to provoke and fuel original thinking about memory in the 21st century.
Open Set 2016
The sixth edition of Open Set will take place from 24.07 to 06.08.2016, a two-week long series of workshops, public interventions and lectures. The event aims to promote and enhance the social value of design by facilitating debates around the chosen theme from a rich diversity of cross-disciplinary perspectives and socially engaged cultural practices.
Open Set is being hosted by Kunstblock, a Rotterdam based foundation set up by five cultural institutions on the Witte de Withstraat. The various workshops and presentations of the Summer School will take place in different Kunstblock affiliated locations.
This year’s Open Set will draw attention to the theme Memories of the Future, a programme that explores how the notion and perception of memory can be used to stimulate alternative approaches towards the future. How are memory and the future connected? How do we activate memory? Is memory something set by our cultural frames of reference? Open Set is proud to feature new symposiums and intensive workshops by more than 16 different tutors and speakers both acclaimed and emerging, such as: Rick Poynor (UK) & Els Kuijpers (NL), Liza Enebeis (Studio Dumbar) (UK-NL) & Rejane Dal Bello (BR) & Bruno Setola (NL), Joanna van der Zanden (NL), Na Kim (KR), Olia Lialina (RU-DE), Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (KR), Bik Van der Pol (NL), Mike Thompson & Susana Cámara Leret (Thought Collider) (NL), Caetano Carvalho (BR), and others.
Open Set 2016 is made possible by the generous support of Creative Industries Fund NL and the public symposium is organized in collaboration with the Institute of Network Cultures.