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NERIKO institute

where we work together on projects
to make new
knowledge and practices

New

Education,

Research &

Innovation for

Knowledge &

Openness

INSTITUTE

OUR STORY

I always wanted to tackle the question from various angles--academic articles, visual arts, spatial designs, music, story telling, etc. etc. NERIKO Institute is an attempt to bring together people from diverse fields to work on specific issues sharing our own expertise.

Unit-Thinking

is the viewpoint where we see the world as made-up of separate, bounded, countable units.

We seek to challenge and overcome unit-thinking because it:

creates inaccurate understanding of the world
separates people (as nation, race, etc.) in ways that can hinder connections
portrays things/people in the category as homogeneous, which results in imposing the dominant ways/views as the norm and erasing/ignoring other ways/views

Project 1

Post Unit-Thinking

In this project, we explore ways to overcome currently prevalent "unit-thinking" in the world.

Examples of unit-thinking include seeing:

color as made up of discrete units
flow of time as the occurrence of consecutive units of minutes or hours
people as belonging to an internally homogeneous nation or race
diverse linguistic practices as belonging to static units of "language" or "dialects"

project 2

DISTANCING

We revisit the politics of difference and divisions by including a new concept, DISTANCING.
We explore technologies, processes and effects of distancing and suggest ways to live with distances.

Distancing is a relational concept that focuses on the existence of multiple parties

Distancing is a matter of degree and spectrum

Distancing is an ongoing process

It is post unit-thinking

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Project 3
New Civic Engagement

This project aims at incorporating various theories on civic engagement in practices. Civic engagement practices can deflect attention from structural causes of social issues. As a result, it can result in reinforcing status quo, including structures of power. This project seeks to design and implement civic engagement projects that address social issues at various levels and scales.