Event date： 2025.09.23
Audience Business and community Students Professors and staff
Location Rokkodai 2nd Campus
Date: 23 September 2025 (Tue) 13:30-16:00
Venue: The Centennial Hall, Kobe University
Registration (free of charge):
Language: English
Event website
Program
- 13:30-14:30 Talk by Erik Rietveld “Imagination for Complex Societal Issues”
- 14:30-14:50 Break
- 14:50-15:20 “Art in Grief” by Geerteke van Lierop and RAAAF
- 15:20-16:00 Floor discussions
Speakers
- Erik Rietveld
Philosopher Erik Rietveld is a Socrates Professor at the University of Twente and a VICI laureate at the University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam UMC, Department of Psychiatry). He works on the philosophy of skilled action, change-ability, and ecological psychology. Together with his brother Ronald Rietveld he founded the multidisciplinary collective for visual art, experimental architecture and philosophy RAAAF in 2006. RAAAF’s artworks have received numerous awards and have been exhibited widely at international museums and biennales for contemporary art. In 2023 they received the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture, a distinction given as an oeuvre award under the patronage of UNESCO.
- Geerteke van Lierop
Geerteke van Lierop is a public speaking coach, writer and filmmaker. She studied Dutch Language and Culture at the University of Amsterdam. She was featured in a wide range of films and series, and was also a presenter of several television and radio programs. In 2018 her first novel Sea of Glass, A Meditation on Life and Death (Een zee van glas) was published by Publishing House Ten Have (Fourth edition 2020).
Contact: Tetsushi Nonaka, tetsushi[at]people.kobe-u.ac.jp
Sponsored by Kobe University Graduate School of Human Development and Environment, Kobe University Co-Creation Research Unit
（Incharge：Graduate School of Human Development and Environment）
