Practice Partner: Cascoland

Cascoland is an international network of designers, visual artists, performers and academics based in Amsterdam.

Cascoland projects are initiated by Fiona de Bell and Roel Schoenmakers and executed with multi-disciplinary teams of creatives. They are aimed at the development of an ecological and social sustainable society, locally and globally. Since 2004 Cascoland has worked on projects in The Netherlands, South Africa, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Palestine, Egypt, Japan and in several countries in Europe.

Cascoland projects/interventions/artworks are tools to be used by participants and audiences rather than artworks to be exhibited. Cascoland interventions aim to challenge and change perceptions and create awareness, not only within communities of participants and audiences, but with planners, designers, organisations and authorities as well.

Cascoland promotes a sustainable use of spaces, skills and resources, empowerment of communities and implementation of innovative social & lo-tek solutions addressing local needs. Our projects aim at bottom-up development and shared ownership of public spaces and a re-valuation of the commons through new democratic experiments based on an intrinsic knowledge of the past.

It is urgent that we start protecting the local and global eco-systems we are part of. Global challenges like climate change, pandemics and social inequality are mainly man induced. Mankind can no longer be central in our development thinking. We will have to look at our society, locally and globally, as part of these global ecosystems under threat. We will have to change our behaviour and our system world thinking.

Art and design can be valuable tools to make change happen!

(retrieved from Cascoland's website)

What changes does Cascoland need to happen for more social justice and inclusion?

What do we at Cascoland need to learn for more social justice and inclusion to happen?

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