“Right for We” (2022-2025) focusses social in- and exclusions, power-relations and privileges within the realm of arts and culture, education and the public space. Through the implementation of practise-based projects in collaboration with organizations and communities, we aim for deliberations of diversity sensitive identities of a shared “We”. Throughout the project, we will assemble the findings in a publicly accessible, digital workbook.
“Right for We” is a cooperation of educators, researchers, and students from the ZHdK, the PH-FHNW, and the HSLU.
“Right for We” engages with the complexity of diversity from a post-migrant perspective. Under the umbrella of a cooperation between the ZHdK (Leading House), the FHNW University of Teacher Education and HSLU Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, the project implies the development of several practice-based interventions at the interface of socioculture, pedagogy and the arts. Within their curriculum or in collaboration with staff members in extracurricular spaces, students of the various study branches develop ideas and intervention designs. Subsequently and in collaboration with communities, the interventions are evolved on an interdisciplinary scale beyond the study branches and put into practice within the three realms of “public space,” “school and education”, and “arts and culture.” By applying a multiple perspective and a practice-based questioning of the distinction between “us” and “them,” “Right for We” seeks to uncover everyday forms of discrimination in the public sphere. Thereby, all of us involved in the project are bound to constantly debate on social change and on how to achieve a right for we. A major tool for exchange and for gaining insights is the digital workbook that assembles documentations of the interventions, methods and workshop formats as well as successes and failures encountered. The workbook not only allows for the interdisciplinary interventions and the initiated processes to be continuously documented, but also to debate and develop our learnings and to make them available for an interested public — especially professional practitioners in artistic, pedagogical and socio-cultural fields of practice. Thus, by the end of “Right for We”, in addition to various interventions and initiated processes, a major outcome will be the application-oriented and experience-based interactive and methodical workbook that allows for experiences and insights to flow back into teaching as well as the questioning of institutional structures.
“Right for We” is funded by the Swiss Federal Government's credit for integration projects (FCM / SEM).