She engages with individuals and communities to create participatory video and performance work. Various forms of performance, theater, and documentary strategies make up the threads that run through her work. Kirsten Leenaars, an interdisciplinary video artist based in Chicago, lectures at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago will host the 2020 seminar.

Participating schools: HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands SAIC, Chicago, USA Karlshochschule International University, Karlsruhe, Germany Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi, Pakistan. They work with clients from international public and private organizations to propose interdisciplinary solutions to real-life issues. Imagining Tomorrow is a two-week international seminar in which students from schools in the Netherlands, Germany, the United States and Pakistan come together to collaboratively address questions about future design thinking. Related Links: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Imagining Tomorrow, International Red Cross/the Netherlands, ZKM Center for Art and Media/Germany Related Episodes: Wayne State-Designing for Urban Mobility, OCAD University-Curating in the Digital Realm View the Episode Transcription Here: SAIC Imagining Tomorrow Transcript Sound Editor: Anamnesis Audio | Special Audio courtesy Imagining Tomorrow Cr ossing international borders to collaborate and innovate, students bring creativity outside the classroom-engaging with communities and learning to lead. In our conversation, you’ll hear how in a range of cultural contexts, students and educators alike forge meaningful relationships and learn to navigate business and government protocols. Their studies range from film, animation and video to architecture and fashion.

A lecturer at SAIC, Leenaars introduces us to three students who have experienced Imagining Tomorrow in Utrecht, Netherlands and Karlsruhe, Germany.

The clients are local organizations who ask the students to imagine solutions to real-life challenges-such as environmental sustainability and immigrant integration.Ĭhicago-based artists Kirsten Leenaars and Laura Davis co-created this international project. During each two-week seminar, they gather in a different host community to envision possible futures through design thinking. The yearly experiential learning opportunity brings together students from schools in the Netherlands, Germany, the United States and Pakistan. We’re here to meet participants in Imagining Tomorrow. Today, we take you to The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, also known as SAIC.

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