Abdul Dube

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ABOUT ABDUL DUBE

Born in \'||Hui!Gais\' indigenous Khoe language meaning \"where clouds gather.\" Now known only as “(Cape Town)” South Africa.Abdul Dube is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, curator and workshop facilitator based in Aarhus, Denmark. His work concerns questions of multicultural belonging, racism and resistance, intersectional solidarity, heritage, sustainability aka survival, Black imagination and artivism. Abdul’s heritage related work includes facilitating an \"Antiblack racism in our public archives\" workshop with Black Archives Sweden; teaching, writing and creating Zines for the Horizon-2020 funded project European Colonial Heritage Modalities in Entangled Cities; and Creative Liaison to the Aros Art Museum Education Department 20••••20, Most current he was a visual harvestor and facilitator with the indonesian collective Ruangrupa for this years documenta15.Abdul Also keeps to a artistic praxis as print maker, concentrating on lino and silkscreen as a means of decompression after intense facilitation work Our visual sense takes up 50% of our brain’s resources. Because of this, pictures truly are worth the proverbial words. In neurology, this is called the pictorial superiority effect. If information is presented orally, after 72 hours one will only remember approximately 10% of what was heard. But when a picture is added, recall reaches 65%. Our brains are wired to find visualisation.My experience in visual facilitation, hosting and a deep passion for small and large group conversational processes, my vision is to provide guidance, leadership and support in co-creating the space for genuine dialogue and innovative creativity.WhoOrganisations who are planning for, entering into and in the process of transformative developments.HowCreating and holding the space for genuine dialogue, innovative creativity and positive change using tried and tested methods as well as developing customised processes. Participation, interaction and cross-connections are central to the work.Methods includeGraphic Recording – using images and languages to harvest meetings, processes and strategies.Open Space Technology – bottom up agenda setting and self-organising dialogue.The World Cafe – an innovative dialogue format for large and small groups.