March, 2025
The 6th of March is going to be the kick start of The Life of Jewellery (working title), a collaboration project for an exchange of stories with students of the Jewellery- Linking Bodies department and Stichting Vitaal Segbroek and Sugar House Studios.
During the project we will explore how to create healthy connections with and within a community, by approaching art as a service and as a public space. How does socially engaged art align with the needs coming from different institutional and non-institutional spheres? How are these needs experienced from a community perspective? What are the boundaries of a community and how does art influence these boundaries? Should art influence them?
The students will delve into such exploration through a series of a community walks and cooking events, together with the community of the Stichting Vitaal Segbroek and the collective Sugar House Studios.
For the Jewellery- Linking Bodies department, the project is part of a larger commitment of its education: engaging students with society and collaborating with partners that reside also outside of their immediate environment as a fundamental aspect of the department’s pedagogical perspective.
Stichting Vitaal Segbroek
Fathma William, Cathy van Seventer and Mariane Linger are the founders of Stichting Vitaal Segborek, an organization focused on vitality and community wellbeing in The Hague. They have started walking groups together in the Regentessekwartier for people with a Surinamese-Hindustani background. Their meeting point is the Regenvalk, the community centre in the Regentessekwartier.
https://www.vitaalsegbroek.nl/
Sugar House Studios
Sugar House Studios, represents a loose collective operating in collaboration with Younes Bouadi, Erica Gargaglione and Sam van Twisk. Its team adopts a trans- and inter-disciplinary approach to develop community-based and culturally sensitive strategies in healthcare, with a focus on prevention and diabetes-related issues.
https://sugarhousestudios.org/
