diakron

Organisation

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.

Members

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.

Contact

+45 30271851
email@diakron.dk

Mobilities in Planning: Experiments with organizing relations and ethical values

Roskilde University

Aslak Aamot Kjærulff will defend his PhD at ENSPAC and we would like to invite you to attend. It will take place at Roskilde University, GeoFagsal, Building 02.

The committee is:

Professor Jonas Larsen (chair), ENSPAC, RUC

Associate Professor Maria Håkansson, The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Associate Professor Mia Arp Fallov, Aalborg University.

See the defense here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lPz1JSSMB8

Read the disseration here: http://tinyurl.com/ja3jztr

Mobilities in Planning is a dissertation about the societal engagement of contemporary social scientific practices. The increasingly permeating problems of a growing ecological crisis is posing unprecedented challenges to most moden societies. Especially in a time where social institutions seem to be caught in an evolutionary inertia or frenetic standstill. This assessment calls for a new set of critically and scientifically grounded public platforms and collaborative practices between people that populate major societal institutions.

The dissertation takes its starting point from a 3-year long dialogue- and action oriented research process, in the cross-sectorial planning project Formula M. The project has developed collaborations between municipal planners from 10 Danish cities, business leaders from 70 private companies, researchers, NGOs, planning consultants and providers of transport and communication technologies and services.

This dissertation contributes with qualitative insights into the personal, relational and disciplinary conversions, which are involved in organisational and institutional processes of change. The analysis emphasize the abilities and relationships applied by practitioners, to start extensive processes of change and shape their trajectories across disciplines, organisations and sectors.