In honor of World Social Work Day, Nomad City and UCLL are organizing a panel talk on this year's theme ‘Buen Vivir: Shared Future for Transformative Change’. This theme emphasises the need for social workers to adopt innovative, community-led approaches that are grounded in indigenous wisdom and harmonious coexistence with nature.
For this talk we invited four interesting speakers:
Liselotte Willems is creating digital environments that feel warm and natural, to take a step away from the often sterile feeling of the digital world. She tries to achieve this by adding handmade textures to her designs. She has a great respect for craftsmanship and natural materials, and she hopes this is also reflected in her work. In her concepts, she looks for ways in which technology can positively influence us in an era of digital dependency.
Emmély Ceulemans is active as an actor within the theater sector but she also has experience as a social worker, specifically within the area of youth aid.
Lune Marchal is a freelance artist and student at the Open Senses Lab. Recently, she started a project where she explored the connection between us as humans and the underground networks of fungal connections. She sought the connection that we as humans share, which resembles the connection that these same networks under the earth form among themselves. And thus, also the connection we have with those underground networks. Her ideas revolve around 'connection and connection with...'. She has a love for natural materials or an approach where the work can be integrated into an organic environment. Initially, the use of natural elements was a financial choice, but as she engaged more with it, it became a more conscious choice.
Leila Fallah is a painter and printmaker who works around the topics of environment, social issues regarding women and history. To express her ideas she often uses prints, paintings and ceramics.