DIRECT DEMOCRACY
A political process in which decisions are made directly by citizens rather than through elected representatives. It enables more immediate civic participation and collective governance.
From the project application, Spring 2025
SELF-MANAGEMENT
A dynamic practice of distributed authority and collective intelligence, enabling people to organise, decide, and act without hierarchical control.
From the project application, Spring 2025
NON-FORMAL EDUCATION
A community-rooted, culturally responsive approach to learning that takes place outside traditional institutional settings. It enables accessible and flexible knowledge-sharing, often supporting the transmission of marginalised
perspectives and practices.
From the project application, Spring 2025
VISUAL LITERACY
It refers to “the ability to read, write and create visual images. It is a concept that relates to art and design but it also has much wider applications. Visual literacy is about language, communication and interaction.”
Source: visualliteracytoday.org
From the project application, Spring 2025
CROSS-DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH
It is an approach to research that brings together experts from different fields to work on a
common problem and/or goal.
From the project application, Spring 2025
HYBRID ARTISTIC PRACTICE
It refers to the combination of different artistic media with methods and insights from fields outside of art, such as science, technology, social and political activism, etc. It embraces experimentation and challenges conventional boundaries of artistic production.
From the project application, Spring 2025
STUDY CIRCLE
A non-formal, self-organised small learning group that fosters collaborative artistic research and democratic knowledge production.
From the project application, Spring 2025
GATHERING POINT
A short-term collective residency bringing together all five Study Circles for intensive research, exchange, and translocal collaboration. It functions as a hybrid space where diverse practices, unresolved questions, and situated knowledge are explored through artistic and political lenses.
From the project application, Spring 2025
SOCIOCRACY 3.0
“Sociocracy 3.0 — a.k.a. “S3” — is social technology for evolving agile and resilient organisations at any size, from small start-ups to large international networks and multi-agency collaboration.”
Source: sociocracy30.org
From the project application, Spring 2025
TRANSNATIONAL MICRO-COMMUNITY
In the small-scale predecessor of the project (2023–2025), local communities served as the primary drivers of activity and engagement. While the micro-community remains a key concept in the next phase, it evolves into a transnational micro-community, a network that mobilises human, material, financial, and other resources across borders. This community is self-managed through Study Circles and Gathering Points, enabling decentralized coordination, shared learning, and collective decision-making on a transnational scale.
From the project application, Spring 2025
COMMUNITY MOBILISATION
Individuals or groups in a community get together to achieve a particular goal. Two types of community mobilisation are distinguished within the On Mobilisation project: (a) micro-community mobilisation that aims at empowering individuals to identify their needs, their rights, and reflect on their ideas and beliefs on the local level; and (b) transnational community mobilisation.
From the project application, Spring 2022