Cooperating with(in) arts and culture

Mémoires et luttes de femmes (Memories and Struggles of Women)

Keywords: creative inquiry, emotion, non-mixity, ordinary experiences, sharing experiences, testimonies and memory

A method to redefine references in terms of struggles, pride, resistance, resilience, and women’s capacities, beyond the great figures and stories usually put forward in history

Dialog im Dunkeln – Dialogue in the Dark

Keywords: blindness, disability, inclusion

In this exhibition, sighted people gain a better understanding of how visually impaired and blind people experience the world and visitors become aware of the limits of their own perception in everyday life, which is strongly focused on visual information.

Teaching European Cinema: The European University Film Award (EUFA) Project – Dossier

Keywords: european cinema, teaching methods, transnational community building, transnational teaching, university cooperation

This reports indicates how the awareness of being part of a pan-European teaching project influences the discussions and learning experiences even of those participants that remain in their usual learning environments and national groups during the whole project.

Reshape

Keywords: artistic and social innovation, arts ecosystem, collaborative models, solidarity, sustainability

The aim of RESHAPE is to imagine an alternative to the European arts ecosystem by rethinking its instruments and collaborative models, placing them in line with artistic and social innovation and the principles of fairness, solidarity, geographic balance and sustainability.

European University Film Award

Keywords: european film, transnational teaching, university cooperation

The project and award are based on the idea to support the transnational dissemination of European film culture, to give young Europeans an insight into different European life conditions and a sense of community through the shared enjoyment and discussion of films.

Prosthetic Memory. The transformation of American remembrance in the age of mass culture.

Keywords: collective memory, cultural memory, empathy, mediation of knowledge

Landsberg claims that in modernity, mass media create the possibility for new forms of social memory: By creating an immediate, visceral and affective engagement with past events, media settings such as cinemas or experiential museums provide what she labels ‘prosthetic memory’.

Fribourg declaration et reviewing

Keywords: cultural democracy, cultural diversity, cultural rights, recognition

In 2007, the "Fribourg group” concluded that the universality and indivisibility of human rights still suffer as a result of the marginalization of cultural rights and published the Declaration of Cultural Rights as a legal framework for cultural rights.

Ce que les arts nous disent de la transformation du monde (What the arts say about world transformations), Revue L’observatoire n°57, la revue des politiques culturelles

Keywords: art and ecology, arts and sciences, biodiversity, cities and utopia/dystopia, the living

This magazine gives the floor to artists and philosophers focused on climate change and biodiversity in relation to art. They tell us how the world is changing, the main issues and their vision on a new world they are expecting.

The New Alphabet

Keywords: artistic research, digitalization, global thinking, knowledge production, languages, learning practices, situated knowledge

The New Alphabet is intended both as a diagnosis and a provocation: vernacular, opaque, or marginalized ways of knowing are increasingly subsumed into abstract universalizing structures. What strategies of resistance against such processes of forced alphabetization exist or could be developed? And which role do artistic methods of appropriation and creolization play in this context?”

Freiburger Filmforum

Keywords: decoloniality, ethnology, eurocentrism, transcultural cinema

The film festival is particularly interested in paying attention to groups, cultures and milieus that are often overviewed by the ethnocentric gaze of many European film festivals.

I May Destroy You

Keywords: intersectional feminism, LGBTQIA+

Still a rare example of art that challenges patriarchy and the violence this dominant system produces in everyday life from a Black FLINTA (and in parts queer) perspective.

Roundtable: Undoing Discrimination? Diverse in Berlin?

Keywords: diversity, inclusion, individual and collective stories, institutional change, power structures in arts and culture

Are diversity measures in cultural institutions just another set of methods of solidifying what they claim to change? What are the inconspicuous formal routines, the small informal habits, the official and unofficial rules that create the feeling of running into a wall that one claims is not there?

School of Commons

Keywords: collaborative and non-hierarchical knowledge production, peer learning

The SOC community focuses on matters surrounding the production and mediation of knowledge with a common interest in self-directed practices and on collaborative and non-hierarchical forms of knowledge production

Searching for the Fountain of Age: A Danced lecture

Keywords: aging in arts and culture, danced lecture, embodied knowledge, sharing knowledge through arts

Susanne Martin proposes an alternative way of lecturing and transmitting her knowledge with a very situated approach : To look and sense her research object, the “fountain of age”, she divides it into 2 smaller fountains : the Fountain of Knowledge (talking) and the Fountain of Experience (dancing).

Anthropocene Curriculum

Keywords: anthropocene, experimental co-learning, international project, knowledge production, knowledge sharing

What should a body of “earthbound” knowledge contain that traverses from the global to the local and back?

ALICE Epistemologies of the South Research Programme

Keywords: ecology of knowledges, intercultural translation, southern epistemologies

Street culture for regions

Keywords: entrepreneurship, vocational education and training

A set of different resources that can help discovering, explaining and analyzing the connection between entrepreneurship and street culture

Le souci du public (Taking care of audiences)

Keywords: audiences, care, museum, reflexivity

Taking care of the audiences" deconstructs the meaning of care in the cultural sector and looks at the diversity of practices underpinned by definitions of "audiences" that can diverge sharply (is the audience a target, a state, a regime of discourse, a condition?)

Stupid Togetherness

Keywords: collaborative practice, commonness, embodied knowledge, playful urban exploration, psychogeography, public space, subversion, urban pedagogy

The project Stupid Togetherness seeks to question existing spatial mechanisms and explore the possibilities for collaborative engagement within the urban spaces.

Arkivens dag 2021 – Dolda röster i arkiven (International Archives Day – Hidden voices in the archives)

Keywords: black history, collaboration, cultural heritage, history, museum, women’s history

Whose perspectives are saved today and whose lives are found in our archives? What strategies can we have to fill the blind spots in the archives? How can we document the present to make sure that tomorrows history books can show our diverse society?

Conference: Shakin’ knowledge spaces

Keywords: decoloniality, ecology of knowledges, inclusion, neoliberal university, situated knowledge, southern epistemologies