Searching “Specialists of De-Specialisation”
About New Alliances between Cultural and Educational Policy
The issue of the European Symposium 2019 deals with the manifold connections and overlaps of cultural and educational policy. The goal is the reopening of “Möglichkeitsräume” (possibility spaces) (Robert Musil), to counteract the current oblivion of the future and thus to repair schools, to act at the height of time, where to develop meaningful life perspectives with the pupils.
Not only all educational analyzes suggest that both the organization and the content of school are less and less true to the dramatically changing requirements. This does not prevent leading lobbyists of industrialism from rebuilding themselves with renewed vigor against the growing pressure for change and demanding a “more of the same”.
The art and culture area, which is much smaller and therefore more maneuverable compared to the educational sector, is once again about making the current situation dance. In this regard, the Rector of the Angewandte Gerald Bast has recently stated that he calls for a fundamental reform of the educational system and declares the art business to be a reference medium in his efforts to dissolve narrow disciplinary boundaries and thus consciously break new ground.
The symposium would like to take up this idea and discuss new possibilities for the interaction of cultural and educational policy on the basis of a critical assessment of current social developments.
It is also based on a variety of good practice forms in which personal, institutional and political forms of cooperation between art, culture and education have been exemplarily realized, as well as various research projects that have examined these activities for “future effectiveness”.
Programme 21. Mai 2019
9:30 – 10:00
Welcome by Gerald Bast/Rector of University of Applied Arts Vienna
Opening remarks by Michael Wimmer/EDUCULT & University of Applied Arts
10:00 – 10:30
Keynote Georg Kapsch/Industriellenvereinigung
10:30 – 11:00
Keynote Cornelia Klinger/Philosophin: „Alles wird besser … Was ist gut? Vom verlorenen Kanon zum Rating und Ranking“
11:00 – 11:30 Pause
11:30 – 13:00 European State of the Art
Marjo Kyllonen/Helsinki Board of Education
Jan Jaap Knol/Bokmanstichting
Sean Gregory/Guildhall School of Music, London
Aistė Kratavičiūtė-Ališauskienė/Education Policy Advicer Litauen
Host: Michael Wimmer/EDUCULT & Angewandte
13:00 – 14:00 Mittagspause
Artistic Action with Markus Tripolt/Malermeister: „Medialoop“
14:00 – 14:30
Brigitte Felderer/Student of Social Design, University of Applied Arts – Presentation: „School of Questionism“
14:30 – 16:00 Expectations
Monika Kircher/Manager
Marlies Krainz/College of Education, Carinthia
Barbara Putz-Plecko/Vice-rector University of Applied Arts
Karl Heinz Gruber/Prof. emeritus for education sciences, University of Vienna
Host: Barbara Neundlinger/Executive Director of the German Cultural Political Society
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 18:00 Scenarios for the Future
Markus Kauer/Ministry of Education, Hesse
Jakob Calice/Executive Director of KulturKontakt Austria & OeAD
Melisa Erkurt/Teacher & Falter columnist
N.N./Ministry of Education, Science and Research Austria
Zita Schatzl/Principal
Host: Aron Weigl/Executive Director of EDUCULT
18:30 – 20:00 Final Discussion – Cooperation: Towards new qualities of interaction between culture and education policies
Paul Collard/CEE and Gerald Bast/University of Applied Arts – Introduction of the Panel
Veronika Kaup-Hasler/City Councillor for Culture, Vienna (angefragt)
Sean Gregory/Guildhall School, London
Marjo Kyllonen/Helsinki Board of Education
Barbara Urban/Principal
Barbara Putz-Plecko/University of Applied Arts
Michael Wimmer/EDUCULT & University of Applied Arts
Host: Stephan Hilpolt/derStandard
