Hi! My name is Livia Schaeffer Nonose, nice to meet you and thanks for visiting this website.

I created Alternachievement in 2016, to share my ideas and love for books, museums, art and the world.

If you are wondering, alternachievement cannot be found in the dictionary (yet?). This is a word I created by connecting two other words: alternatives + achievement = alternachievement.

With this new wor(l)d of Alternachievement, I wish to explore a worldview that seeks alternative reflections and thoughts to mainstream narratives. And this is, in my opinion, what art does best.

When I say art, I mean all kinds of expressions.

Innovation and Storytelling for Sustainable Development

My motto for Alternachievement is Innovation and Storytelling for Sustainable Development.

The choice for Innovation comes twofold. First, to recognize and paid homage to all avant-garde artists, thinkers and writers, who innovated in their fields of work by producing new thoughts, new crafts, new approaches. Secondly, I believe innovation is not necessarily something new. It can also be about unpacking truths, highlighting power dynamics, illustrating what needs to be seen but may often be ignored by society.

Storytelling is all about sharing stories from all corners of the world, sharing the stories that help to build the world we live in, and how we understand and see such worlds.

Lastly, focusing on Sustainable Development provides the directionality that guides myself, and the innovation and stories I choose to showcase here at Alternachievement. For development to be truly sustainable, it requires structural changes in society, in dominant ideologies of exclusion and supremacy (for instance, racism, Eurocentrism, Orientalism, heteronormativity, so forth).

Life beyond Alternachievement

When I am not working on Alternachievement, I spend my time cooking vegetarian or vegan recipes, listening to vinyl discs, and thrifting.

I also have a full-time job. You can find more about it in my LinkedIn.