On January 7, 2016 MAD participated in the launch of this dialogue and debate series, as part of the Cultural Programme during the Netherlands presidency of the EU 2016. See for more information about the overall programme also www.europebypeople.nl.

Art and design can and does affect society. It puts matters in perspective, reflects, initiates changes, but also comes up with innovative, practical solutions for real problems. In three sessions artists, designers, policy makers, managers, cultural entrepreneurs and researchers discuss the impact of art on a rapidly changing world.

The first dialogue was centralised around the theme set by the new book Interrupting the city – Artistic Constitutions of the Public Sphere (Valiz, 2015) edited by Bax, Gielen en Ieven.