The fraternity of citizens long bound them to nations and their citizenship has been conceived as nationality. But if the future challenges require imagining the future citizen differently, what will the basis of their affinities?
Will the future citizens create affinities and affiliations across borders to build cross-cultural and cross-societal social solidarities? If so, how? Will the internet be an impediment or resource for the future citizen across borders?
How can thinking and acting through affinity enable a transformation in the notion of citizenship?
Speakers include Daniel Baker, Education Research and Strategy Director at Cubitt Gallery and Studios in Angel, Islington and Binna Choi, Director of Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory in Utrecht.
Biographies
Engin F. Isin
Engin F. Isin is Professor of politics in Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at the Faculty of Social Sciences, the Open University. He has authored Cities Without Citizens (Montreal, 1992), Being Political (Minneapolis, 2002) and Citizens Without Frontiers (London, 2012). He has published with Greg Nielsen, Acts of Citizenship (London, 2008), with Michael Saward, Enacting European Citizenship (Cambridge, 2013), and with Peter Nyers, Handbook of Global Citizenship Studies (London, 2014). He is also a street photographer and maintains a website.
Binna Choi
Binna Choi is director of Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory in Utrecht, the Netherlands where she takes up art institutional practice as a way to build a (micro) society in movement, in tandem with social movements. Her particular focus at Casco lies in challenging modes of working and organisational structures – questioning labour, organising, institutional critique, alternative economies and politics. Choi has been part of the faculty of the Dutch Art Institute /Masters of Fine Arts Programme in Arnhem and is a founding member of Electric Palm Tree, a curatorial affinity group for intersectional approaches to the politics of culture.
Daniel Baker
Daniel Baker is Education Research and Strategy Director at Cubitt Gallery and Studios in London. Baker is a Fellow of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust and in 2013 was awarded a Mayor’s Civic Award for his contribution to the local area of Islington. Baker is currently developing Unknown Empires, a three-year research project exploring cultures of dance amongst older people across London, combining anthropology, art practice and performance.