Farid Rakun is an artist, writer, editor, teacher and instigator based in Jakarta. Trained as an architect, he currently serves as editor and researcher for the artists’ initiative RUANGRUPA, while teaching full-time at the University of Indonesia.… more »

Ahmet Öğüt is the initiator of THE SILTENT UNIVERSITY, which offers teachers and academics a platform, when they are unable to share their knowledge and skills due to their residence status like refugees, asylum seekers or migrants. In this talk… more »

One other lecturer of the “Global Academy?” conference will be Koyo Kouoh. She will talk about the RAW Material Company, as a center for art, knowledge and society in Dakar, Senegal. The philosophy of this art center is the belief in visual arts as an… more »

Toleen Touq is one of the organizers of SPRING SESSIONS – a multidisciplinary learning and residency programme based in Amman. Furthermore she is co-initiator of the cross-disciplinary platform “The River Has Two Banks”, operating between Jordan and… more »

Anna Colin is a co-founder and the co-director of Open School East in London, which was founded in 2013 in response to spiralling tuition fees and student debt. It is a space for artistic learning and production that is experimental, versatile and… more »