Papers by Ties van de Werff
Routledge eBooks, Aug 9, 2023
Studies in Art, Heritage, Law and the Market, 2022
de Klank. Magazine van orkest en vrienden philharmonie zuidnederland, 2020
de Klank. Magazine van orkest en vrienden philharmonie zuidnederland, 2020
Forum Musikvermittlung - Perspektiven aus Forschung und Praxis, 2022
Journal of Cultural Management and Cultural Policy / Zeitschrift für Kulturmanagement und Kulturpolitik, 2021
Science as Culture, 2021
Symphony orchestras today acknowledge the need to make their art relevant again in today's societ... more Symphony orchestras today acknowledge the need to make their art relevant again in today's societies and innovate their practices. When these innovations regard audience participation, they challenge the ritualised formats of classical music performance and disrupt normative, social, and artistic traditions. The orchestra therefore presents an interesting case to develop a better understanding of the value-laden dynamics of innovation in public participation. Implicit notions of an 'ideal public' and its desirable behaviour often structure the design, set-up, and assessment of participatory innovations. Fieldwork during the Empty Minds concerts, that the South Netherlands Philharmonic organised in 2018 to innovate participation, supports this claim. The organisers aimed to assign new participatory roles to the audience. Throughout the organisational process, three forms of frictions developed. The hierarchical pattern of symphonic concerts conflicted with the plan for new audience participation, material routines were challenged, and during the actual concerts, audience members did not participate in new ways. The observed frictions show that what matters artistically cannot be separated from how the performance is organised: artistic qualities emerge in and through socio-material practice. What comes to count as desirable public participation is thus not a given, but needs to be continuously articulated, negotiated and constructed.
Knowledge on adolescent brain development is increasingly being used by pedagogues, family coache... more Knowledge on adolescent brain development is increasingly being used by pedagogues, family coaches and other parenting professionals to tell parents what to do with their teenage children. The promise is that knowledge of the teenage brain not only explains ‘typical’ adolescent behaviour, but also provides an answer to the timely question of how to be a good parent. This chapter explores how the popular notion of the teenage brain is made valuable in Dutch parenting discourse to address concerns and ideals of good parenting – in short, questions of ethics. Instead of providing an inconclusive answer, parenting experts mobilize the teenage brain to reconcile different and sometimes conflicting parental norms, resulting in two distinct moral repertoires of parenting as ‘external frontal lobe’. The case of the teenage brain as parenting advice indicates the constitutive role norms, values and ideas of the good play in the diffusion of neuroscience knowledge into society.
New Genetics and Society, 2014
In this Open Peer Commentary for the American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience, we respond to Gr... more In this Open Peer Commentary for the American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience, we respond to Grubbs (2016) who pleaded to "remedy neurohype". Based on a body of work in the field of ethics of emerging technologies, we question the feasibility and desirability of reducing neurohype. We propose an alternative strategy for scholars in the humanities to engage with neurohype: as source for upstream ethical deliberation.
Recensie van: Nikolas R. Rose & Joelle M. Abi-Rached (2013) Neuro. The new brain sciences and the... more Recensie van: Nikolas R. Rose & Joelle M. Abi-Rached (2013) Neuro. The new brain sciences and the management of the mind. Princeton/Oxford: Princeton University Press.
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Papers by Ties van de Werff