Biographical Storytelling with Virtual Reality

Azam Mazoumzadeh, born in Isfahan (Iran), is an award-winning storyteller. She has a background in speculative narration (L’ERG, Belgium) and is trained as a comic artist (LUCA – School of Arts, Belgium) and digital storyteller (KASK, Belgium). Her work has been shown in South Korea, Switzerland, Germany and Belgium. In 2020, her virtual reality project based on the poetry of Omar Khayyam - Glad that I came, not sorry to depart, received a Special Mention at Anima Festival. Also, in 2020 Azam was invited to be part of the international jury of Mooov Film Festival in Belgium.
"I create layered worlds of alternate realities using different media such as line-drawings and comics. In my work, I dig into my memories of childhood and represent them as a collision of culture and spirituality." Azam Mazoumzadeh, https://www.azammasoumzadeh.com

The continuing education programme of the Institute Arts and Design Education aims to broaden participants’ perspective of their own artistic work and shared creative endeavours with others. 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.

No prior artistic or technical experience is required. University degree or equivalent work experience is required.

Teachers, educators, social workers, artists, designers, creative people

Participants:

• acquire the ability to shape artistic and design processes,
• acquire skills for competent handling of various methods of art and design communication,
• learn to initiate engagements with design processes in social contexts through artistic communication strategies,
• gain experience in their own artistic expressions,
• deepen their knowledge of various communicative competencies,
• expand professional knowledge and skills in expressive and design methods,
• acquire know-how about the connection between art, education, and diverse target groups,
• acquire the competence to question aesthetic habits and social processes,
• gain the ability to develop new ideas with the knowledge of artistic communication strategies,
• gain experience in integrating artistic and cultural processes as open and experimental processes into their work,
• gain experience in applying artistic communication methods in psychosocial practice.

Modules and workshops for a total of 10 ECTS enable registration for the final module with integrated certificate thesis. The graduates are individually supervised by Prof. Dorothée King and her team in 5 individual coaching sessions. Upon successful completion, participants receive the Certificate of Advanced Studies CAS HGK FHNW "Artistic Literacy".

Terms of participation (PDF)
Information on continuing education FHNW (fhnw.ch/DE)
Continuing education regulations of the universities FHNW (fhnw.ch/DE)