Vision & Re-Vision
Vision & Re-Vision
Sustainability as the focus of artistic research in the context of art education
In a society characterized by a manifest sense of crisis and confronted with a wide range of global challenges, sustainability is a primary goal for transformative action. This requires education for sustainable development (ESD), through which children and young people in particular can explore alternative options for action in a future- and research-oriented manner and thus develop visionary skills (see Niederhauser 2024). Using critical forms of re-vision, the aim is to make sedimented experiences visible, identify gaps and desiderata in order to develop innovative art education models.
The current discourse on sustainability is predominantly based on a three-pillar model that addresses the social, ecological and economic aspects (cf. Hauff 2021). However, the cultural dimension only plays a marginal role, although its importance has been emphasized several times (see Stoltenberg 2020 and Goehler 2020). Artistic research in art education can make a decisive and stimulating contribution in this context (Brohl 2023). Concepts, strategies and processes of artistic research imply critical-reflective thinking and open up a problem-sensitivity (Inthoff 2017) with regard to the 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development (https://sdgs.un.org/goals).
With a focus on sustainability, teachers and students try out artistic research methods in university didactic projects, in school and extracurricular teaching settings as well as in further education and training formats. Established perspectives of thought and patterns of action are expanded and experimentally developed visions for a world of tomorrow are made visible. Teaching and learning in artistic research projects as an intersubjective field of experimentation and sustainable research laboratory invents, realizes and reflects on content and methods in an explorative way (cf. Brohl 2021). Artistic research focuses on the transformation of learning and educational processes and initiates the expansion of existing learning settings.
The following questions will be addressed at the conference
- What role does artistic research play in art education in order to strengthen and further develop the cultural dimension of the sustainability discourse?
- How should art lessons be structured to enable children and young people to take up future-oriented topics and develop them in a visionary way?
- What critical forms of re-vision are needed in the training and further education of art teachers in order to enable them to initiate an artistic-research attitude for the development of visions?
- How can sustainability as a focus of artistic research in the context of art education contribute to a transformation of learning and school culture?
The conference program will be published here soon
Travel
Bremen Central Station is centrally located in the city center and is connected to the public transport network (BSAG) by bus and streetcar. The journey time to the university is 20 minutes (streetcar 6 in the direction of “Universit?t” to the stop “Bremen Universit?t/Zentralbereich”).
The central bus station is located in the center of Bremen, right next to Bremen Central Station.
The University of Bremen is located on the A27. Coming from the A1 highway, change to the A27 at Bremer Kreuz in the direction of Bremen-Bremerhaven, leave the A27 at the Universit?t/Horn-Lehe exit and drive in the direction of Centrum/Universit?t.
Sufficient parking spaces are available on the campus and in the University Technology Park, but these are subject to a charge.
The City Airport is well connected by the BSAG streetcar line 6. The journey to the city center takes 11 minutes, to the university it takes 36 minutes (streetcar 6 in the direction of “Universit?t” to the stop “Bremen Universit?t/Zentralbereich”).
The Vision & Re-Vision conference is supported by https://www.stempelservice.de/ - specialist for individually designed teacher stamps and educational teaching aids - and https://www.onlineplotten.de/