Following perspectives are based on conversations with RASL’s Dual Degree and minor students, who share their education and research experiences.
ASIM is a talented composer whose research interests lay in perceptions of sound. He is a third-year Codarts student in classical composition and is participating in the RASL minor this year. In this minor, he explores what it means to collaborate transdisciplinarily on topics such as intersectionality, smart cities and surveillance.
As a third-year EUC student in Political Science, CHIARA is very engaged with topics such as the environment, human-nonhuman relations and decolonisation. She is currently enrolled in the RASL minor and is working on the topic of ecology from both academic and artistic perspectives.
CLAIRE TIO is an alumna of Erasmus University College (EUC) where she studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics. In 2019-2020, she followed the RASL minor and explored ways of blurring the divide between theory and practice. This year, CLAIRE continues to focus on social issues across and beyond the disciplines in the Master Engaging Public Issues at Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR).
During the RASL minor Re-imagining tomorrow through Arts and Sciences in 2019-2020, YORI ETTEMA (WdKA Product Design), JULIET ULEHAKE (WdKA Graphic Design), JULIA DE ROO (EUR Arts and Culture Studies) and TOSCA VAN HECK (WdKA Lifestyle and Transformation Design) formed the collective Entangled Brains. Together, they explored a new attitude to deal with wicked problems that they named “conturbative”.
Dual Degree student FLORIEKE DE GEUS studies Jazz Vocals at Codarts and Arts and Culture Studies (IBACS) at Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR). She is currently in her fourth year and is following the RASL minor where she is exploring ways to combine her artistic and academic backgrounds to address social problems.
As a fifth-year Dual Degree student, who is also enrolled in the minor this year, GABIJA is a familiar face in the RASL community. She combines Graphic Design at Willem de Kooning Academy (WdKA) with her studies in International Relations and Politics at Erasmus University College (EUC). GABIJA is especially passionate about engaging with social issues and developing ways to visualize them through her projects and practices.
How can we connect to children in new ways and what can we learn from them? We spoke to a group of RASL minor students who are working with such questions by exploring rituals, dreams and the imagination. In this interview, they talk about collaborating transdisciplinarily, their project and future perspectives.
Dual Degree student LISA VELEMA studies Fine Art at Willem de Kooning Academy (WdKA) and Arts and Culture Studies (IBACS) at Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR). She is currently in her fourth year and is working on an artistic research project about gentrification in the neighbourhood of Coolhaven in Rotterdam.
Willem de Kooning’s Product Design alumna MAAIKE VAN PAPEVELD participated in the RASL minor Re-imagining tomorrow through Arts and Sciences in the academic year of 2019-2020. As a designer, she is interested in developing new (design) methodologies through which to address complex social issues.
Dual Degree student MAËL VAN DER GIESEN studies Spatial Design at Willem de Kooning Academy (WdKA) and Arts and Culture Studies (IBACS) at Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR). He is currently in his third year and is working on an artistic research project on the housing crisis in Rotterdam.
Dual Degree student RUI DE BOER studies Fine Art at Willem de Kooning Academy (WdKA) and Arts and Culture Studies (IBACS) at Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR). He is currently in his second year and is working on a research project about toxic masculinity.
As a third-year Dual Degree student, TIM seeks to combine his major in Molecular Biology at Erasmus University College (EUC) with his passion for Brazilian music and vocals at Codarts. Although these disciplines may appear unrelated, Tim believes the combination of academic and artistic education provides him with a broad skillset, a large network and a better understanding of his (future) practices.