KABK Annual Research Forum 2022: Fault Lines 3.7 Dr. Rolando Vazquez: Decoloniality, Listening and Relationality

Dr. Rolando Vázquez is a teacher and decolonial thinker. He is regularly invited to deliver keynotes on decoloniality at academic and cultural institutions. Vázquez is currently Associate Professor of Sociology and Cluster Chair at the University College Utrecht. Since 2010, he co-directs with Walter Mignolo the annual Maria Lugones Decolonial Summer School, now hosted by the Van Abbemuseum. In 2016, under the direction of Gloria Wekker, he co-authored the report "Let’s do Diversity" of the University of Amsterdam Diversity Commission. He has been named Advisor at the Jan van Eyck Academie for 2021/2022.

Vázquez's work places the question of the possibility of an ethical life at the core of decolonial thought and advocates for the decolonial transformation of cultural and educational institutions. His most recent publication is Vistas of Modernity: Decolonial aesthesis and the End of the Contemporary(Mondriaan Fund 2020).

FAULT LINES: KABK Research Forum 2022, a day of exchange centred on our projects-in-progress and collective thinking around art, design and research in relation to climate justice.

Chaired by Alice Twemlow, research professor at KABK, the Group comprises KABK tutors, whose research practices engage with the central theme of the Design Lectorate — making, teaching and researching in the context of climate catastrophe, planetary degradation and the loss of biodiversity. We meet every few weeks in each other’s studios and sites of research, where we engage with the work, read texts, write, and think with each other through the doubts, dilemmas and complexities of our individual projects and the methodological or thematic composite that connects us.

For this event, in the KABK auditorium, we will be joined by some of our students and colleagues from KABK. We are thrilled to share that we will also be joined by three keynote speakers who we have invited to help frame and contextualise our work: Aditi Jaganathan, Fiona Hallinan and Rolando Vázquez.

Video recording/ editing by Silvia Ulloa Marquez

Sound by Rita Silva and Henrique Monteiro

All the audio-visual material by courtesy of the speakers

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