NETWORK
The Network for Nordic Otherwise focuses on underground work methods essential for navigating the art, design and culture industries as racialised individuals.
We will hold online clinics to swap, document, and develop work methods. The first Network meeting will be held around August 2025.
Pre-register now!
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what’s a work method?
DEFINITION For the purposes of the Network, we define a work method as a tactic that an individual or group uses specifically to maintain their initiatives made by and for racialised individuals. A work method can be a tool, strategy, technique, ritual, protocol, or routine.
EXAMPLES Through the Network, we can exchange tactics for controlling how photographs of us are misused by others without consent, rituals for drawing boundaries to protect exclusive events, or strategies for fundraising initiatives that are disruptive and hard to fund. Work methods can be adminstrative, social, spiritual, emotional, and much more.
EXAMPLES Through the Network, we can exchange tactics for controlling how photographs of us are misused by others without consent, rituals for drawing boundaries to protect exclusive events, or strategies for fundraising initiatives that are disruptive and hard to fund. Work methods can be adminstrative, social, spiritual, emotional, and much more.
aims and limitations
The Network aims to shed light on the cultural technologies we come up with for ourselves and that we learn from others.
The Network is not a community. Though the hope is that real personal relationships are built through our shared aims and our meetings, the Network cannot be responsible for facilitating close, long-term relationships between its members.
The Network is not a community. Though the hope is that real personal relationships are built through our shared aims and our meetings, the Network cannot be responsible for facilitating close, long-term relationships between its members.
become a member
August 2025:
- Join our group chat
Meet fellow members and get announcements about upcoming meetings -
Participate in Network meetings!
You can offer, exchange, ask for, and learn new methods for sustaining spaces that are exclusively by and for us
End of 2025:
Later this year, The Network will transition to paid memberships. This will let us directly compensate and support the folks who organize and facilitate each meeting we have—making the initiative socially sustainable.
history
In the Nordic region, work methods are often casually borrowed from long-standing political traditions outside the region. This causes disconnects between what we value in theory and what we do in practice. That’s why the Network seeks to instill a culture of citation in the region. The Network thickens our connections with the specific lineages, individuals, places, needs, and periods of time from which they originate.
The idea for the network stems from conversations among peers had over dinner, after lectures, and on metro rides. These conversations made clear how many of us are craving connections with fellow BIPoC cultural workers and creative practitioners who work at the intersection of creative practice and liberation.
We want the mutual exchanges made through the Network to deepen how we do our work—meaning, the inner, intimate, personal work we do towards collective action.
The idea for the network stems from conversations among peers had over dinner, after lectures, and on metro rides. These conversations made clear how many of us are craving connections with fellow BIPoC cultural workers and creative practitioners who work at the intersection of creative practice and liberation.
We want the mutual exchanges made through the Network to deepen how we do our work—meaning, the inner, intimate, personal work we do towards collective action.