Diakron is a platform and studio for transdisciplinary research and practice. We establish collaborations across disciplinary backgrounds and institutional frameworks. Our own backgrounds are composed of experiences from artistic practices, curatorial practices, social sciences and graphic design.
Diakron is based on explorative research as a core value. This means, that we adapt what our practices do and what the organization is, according to the research projects we undertake.
We are currently interested in creative and explorative ways of identifying and dealing with changes, that invisibly permeate or unavoidably overwhelm ways of life. This work is tied to concerned interests in various pervasive ecological, humanitarian, existential, digital, or economic shifts. We approach these issues through experimentation with our own ways of working and the relationships we maintain through our practices.
Our modes of engagement, processes of making and research methodologies grow out of our projects and collaborations. We combine our transdisciplinary outset with an open-ended and relational approach to methodological experimentation. Outputs and expressions are not predetermined, but are developed in a responsive manner according to each research process.
Amitai Romm
Artist. MFA, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Art. Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna
Asger Behncke Jacobsen
Graphic designer. BFA, Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Aslak Aamot Helm
PostDoc, Medical Museion, Diakron and Serpentine Galleries. PhD, Space, Place and Technology at Roskilde University
Bjarke Hvass Kure
Artist. MFA, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Art
David Hilmer Rex
PostDoc, Human Centred Science and Digital Technology at The Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University, Danish Design Center, The Systems Innovation Initiative at The Rockwool Foundation and Diakron. PhD, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Aarhus University.
Victoria Ivanova
Curator and writer. R&D Strategic Lead, Arts Technologies, Serpentine Galleries. PhD, Centre for the Study of the Networked Image, London Southbank University.
+45 30271851
email@diakron.dk
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Roskilde University
A one-day lecture and workshop in the course Sustainable Cities, hosted by the master programme in Planning and Urban Studies.
The lecture was titled Organizing in The Anthropocene – Losing Balance and Practicing Speculation.
The aim of the lecture was to introduce the concept and some of the philosophical and anthropological consequences of the idea of the Anthropocene era. The lecture was built around a number of case-studies of organizations that are emerging under the larger institutional era, to tackle or prepare societies for social and ecological challenges ahead.
The lecture draws on social theories of i.e. Hannah Arendt, Isabelle Stengers, Arturo Escobar, Slavoj Zizek and Bruno Latour. It also introduces emerging concepts such as quantum consciousness, #stacktivism, organizing as making and the social implications of digital imaginaries. Furthermore the workshops stages an open-ended task of imagining a non-existent organization using multi-media ressources provided on the digital platform Are.na.