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the foreign and me - an intercultural dialogue
"The experience of structure will support a new way of teaching process in art classes, the importance of how individuals can work together, the individual work and presentations of it and learn how to learn of each other’s experiences and theirs point of view." (Sari Maarit Cedergren, participant)
Traveling, being on the road, assuming a stranger’s perspective, contemplating familiar surroundings. All of these activities sensitize our perception to the ‘ordinary’ environment and yield our creative potential, whilst also igniting our reflective processes. The seminar focuses on possible approaches towards the unfamiliar. What is an adequate way for a society, for an artist or art teacher, to approach the unknown, the foreign?
relation between nature and culture -the artistic point of view
Certainly the highlight of 2010, Petra Liebl Osborne and Susi Planck provided an inspiring and motivational course for all who attended. Thank you once more for your help and cooperation. We hope to work together again in the future.
The main objective of the course concerned itself with an exchange of opinions on the far-reaching theme of the ´Relationship between Nature and Culture` worked on in an intercultural context and on a European level.
European countries – as represented by the participants - have an enormous richness of regionally grown cultures that are perfectly preserved in some parts but destroyed in others. This ´Inconvenient Truth` offers endless material for discussions. With the exchange of positive and negative examples participants were led to broadened insights that could flow back into educational programmes in their home countries. The central focus of the presented course was to emphasise a positive attitude for a symbiosis between ´Nature and Culture` and using this as a main goal in education on any level. To strengthen this attitude participants worked on Lanzarote with individual artistic practice and process oriented group work.
non-knowledege as a creative strategie
"The meditational methodes are very interesting and inspiring. New ways to listen to the within."
(Þórunn María Jónsdóttir, participant)
The system theorists Niklas Luhmann and Heinz von Förster declared non-knowledge as an essential tool for any teaching and creative work. During the seminar the participants were working on this theory in a practical way, reflecting their own work at schools or as artist, facing themselves towards the impressing landscape on the island.
The main objective of this Lanzarote seminar was to encourage an intercultural exchange over the European issue of migration, whilst attempting to approach the solutions to this issue through creative and practical work.The experience of non-knowledge in the sense of Förster, is an essential tool for any creative work. A crucial point of focus is the process of finding oneself in the face of an infinite number of solutions and whilst an artist or teacher is mapping his own landscape of non-knowledge he also learned to navigate it.
horizons
‘Horizons’ was developed as a course for adult educators who wished to learn from others and share their own knowledge and ideas. Group discussions, methods of reflection, an engagement of the senses and improvised performance were all devices employed by the facilitators in such a way as to inspire participants to work outside their comfort zones and develop a contemporary perception of education and its possibilities.
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