🔴 Recording with Jannik Hösel and Ruben Hanssen from The Aesthetic City in January 2023 | 🗨️ Ask your questions

Jannik Hösel, painter

Jannik Hösel is a German classical painter currently studying with Odd  Nerdrum. 

Growing up in an environment that offered no possibilities to be formally trained in the craft, he chose to go down the autodidactic road, and sits down in the Cave to share his knowledge on self-learning, which ranges from suggested exercises and how to think as you study — to basic awareness of painting materials.

Hösel is also concerned with the psychological faithfulness of motifs.
He warns against becoming too "symbolic" or "deep", and how you can attain the middle road of storytelling.

Ruben Hanssen, The Aestehtic City

Growing up in Rembrandt's hometown Leiden, Ruben Hanssen developed an interest for the built environment and has studied Urban Planning at the University of Amsterdam and Urbanism at the Delft University of Technology.

In 2021 he founded the Aesthetic City, which is a podcast devoted to the discussion of how to build a more livable, healthy and beautiful environment. The channel is also featured on YouTube with educational content, such as the very informative video called "Why is it Beautiful?" 

Visiting the Cave, he will cover topics such as:

- What is going wrong in cities all over the world? Which errant paths do planners still take? 

- Relation of architecture to urban design: can a beautiful public space and ugly buildings still make a beautiful city?

- What "collective image" do we have of the future? How is the mainstream idea of the future formed by popular media and tending towards dystopian nightmarish visions?

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We are recording with our featured guests 16.-21. January.

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