State of Unsettlement explores how creative practices can contribute towards or facilitate alternative views on this current social climate. Working through the themes of relations, mentality, material, spaces and the sense of collaborative dreaming, we want to engage differently with the world around us.

The project has been set up with a collaborative, democratic nature. Initiated by Judith van den Boom, Lisa Mandemaker and Anne Vaandrager, acting as a core team of project facilitators and researchers, State of Unsettlement is in continuous development through creative collaborators and contributors: Helen Carnac, Fabrizio Cocchiarella, Paul Harper, Thor ter Kulve, Study O Portable (Bernadette Deddens and Tetsuo Mukai) and Abbie Vickress.

State of Unsettlement 29.03.2019 was published on the day of Brexit. It is a captured moment of work in progress for the collective, featuring documentation of our journey thus far through Brexit. It contains a collection of eight project proposals by various creatives, all with the ambition to use our creative practices to contribute towards or facilitate alternative views on our current social climate.

Partners: ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem NL; Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester UK; Makerversity, London UK; Creative Industries Fund NL
Project lead: Judith van den Boom, Lisa Mandemaker, Anne Vaandrager
Participating designers: Helen Carnac, Fabrizio Cocchiarella, Paul Harper, Thor ter Kulve, Abbie Vickress and Study O Portable
Graphic design: Abbie Vickress