Scientific monitoring of the โArt and Audienceโ programme of Pro Helvetia
The programme โArt and Audienceโ was a reaction by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia to the growing cultural policy relevance of this field. Pro Helvetia commissioned the Institute for Art Education to provide the programme with scholarly expertise. The goal of this accompanying research was, among others, the development of a set of instruments for quality assurance and enhancement in cultural education, both for promoters of culture as well as practitioners. As a critical authority, the IAE, together with the participants, considered the processes and results, placing these in the context of the current state of research and international practice.
Commissioned by Pro Helvetia, the IAE pubished Time for Cultural Mediation, an online publication. It is the result of the accompanying research of the Institute for the โArts and Audienceโ programme (2009โ2012) by Pro Helvetia and is available in the languages German, French, Italian and English. Time for Cultural Mediation provides, in addition to introductory and extensive texts on nine core thematic fields of cultural education, a comprehensive glossary, examples from practice and the views of around forty actors from the Swiss cultural community.
Within the framework of the research project Art.School.Differences, three Swiss Universities (Geneva University of Arts and Design (HEAD), The Geneva University of Music (HEM), Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK)) cooperate with the aim of studying the complex configurations of inequality, in- and exclusions in art schools in order to understand and change these. This includes looking at the transformation of the art school in the European university landscape and the effects of globalization and migration.