Participants will be introduced to creative educational strategies, and acquire the ability to make creative debates effective for social processes. Both the weeklong continuing education courses and the optional one-on-one coaching sessions integrate methods from the fields of education, the fine arts, arts education, performance and other participatory practices. The improvement of artistic, creative and communication skills can help pave the way for more equal opportunities. Social inclusion, as one of the main conditions of equal opportunities, requires good communication and cultural competences – and it is these competences that artistic and creative educational strategies can do an excellent job at cultivating. By strengthening artistic and creative competences, we not only increase the realms of possibility for design, but also for communication, social interactions, the strengthening of social structures, personal expression and the experience of self-efficacy.
Participants will
- gain experiences navigating their own forms of artistic expression,
- acquire the ability to structure artistic and creative processes,
- acquire skills that prepare them to deal adeptly with various methods, digital and otherwise, for teaching art and design and their application in social practice,
- learn to kick-start debates on creative processes in various social structures by way of artistic and educational strategies,
- deepen their knowledge of various communication and digital skills,
- acquire know-how about networking art and education with a variety of target groups,
- gain experiences that help integrate artistic and cultural processes as open and experimental processes into their work.