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Stimulating, provoking, repositioning, shifting: artistic/pedagogical practices and ways of thinking make an impact on societal discourse. The Major in โCritical Social Practice in Art Educationโ takes this quality as a starting point to further develop artistic-educational work in institutional as well as non-formal settings using artistic means. It thereby focuses on urgent social, political, economic, and/or ecological issues.
Art is understood as a socio-critical modus operandi, as an empowering and transformative practice through which social fields can be reshaped. The program promotes practices such as community-based collaboration, social intervention, aesthetic experimentation, interdisciplinary research, and artistic teaching. Current discourses on care, climate justice, critical urbanism, social change, and artistic activism are addressed and further developed. Public social space serves as a site for participatory interventions and critical engagements with traditional as well as progressive forms of education.
The Major at Master level is designed for students with demonstrable experiences in socio-cultural educational work and an artistic profile. The program builds on teamwork, in terms of both structure and content. It promotes the development and reflection of artistic-educational work at the intersection of educational institutions, cultural organizations, public space, and social groups. The Major enables students to become agents of (sustainable) change in and for institutional and non-formal artistic-educational domains.