Content of the educational programme
The ÜBER LEBENSKUNST.School comprises 10 two and a half day on-site events. Each of these "modules" is dedicated to a specific topic. Proven experts from theory and practice will present their perspectives on each of the topics, organise working sessions, lead activities and talk with participants. Each module has the following formats:
- The cultural scientist and art mediator, Rahel Puffert, will head up what is called the "Project forum" which is dedicated to planning and discussing the school projects as a group.
- The participants will present their artistic/pedagogical methods in workshops, impart methodological knowledge and report on their own experiences in their work with children and young people.
- In regular reflection units facilitated by art mediator, Constanze Eckert, the participants can apply what they have heard and learned to their own project development. These units allow for continuous development of the educational programme in line with participants’ needs.
- A "salon gathering" was also held in three modules where an expert discussed a topic with the group that was independent of the module but still related to art and sustainability. The salon gathering gave participants in the ÜBER LEBENSKUNST.School the opportunity to share ideas with the other ÜBER LEBENSKUNST project participants.
Module 1: ÜBER LEBENSKUNST kick-off workshop
Goals:
To become familiar with the structure and actors of the ÜBER LEBENSKUNST project
To discuss the main focal points of the project
To reflect on and discuss the conceptual approaches of the project modules developed so far
With:
ÜBER LEBENSKUNST team, everyone involved in the project and invited experts and supporters
Module 2: Education for Sustainable Development
Goals:
To become familiar with the guiding principles of sustainability through discourse
To understand the emergence and concept of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)
With:
Prof. Dr. Gerhard de Haan, project director, director of the Future Institute of the Free University of Berlin, professor for future and educational research, chairman of the national committee of the UN Decade "Education for Sustainable Development" 2005-2014
Daniel Dahm, ecologist, geographer, activist and consultant, Berlin
Ilona Böttger, educator, managing director of Fields GmbH (Corporate Responsibility), Berlin
Module 3: The "School" working environment
Goals:
To learn about structures and current developments in schools (concepts, curricula, partnerships, strategies, opportunities)
To examine the working environment of artists in schools (challenges, motivations, discourses)
To explore conditions for successful collaboration between artists and schools
To discuss examples of working artistically at schools
With:
Claudia Hanfgarn, dancer and choreographer, Bremerhaven
Christian Kammler, head of the Lern- und Forschungswerkstatt and the Teaching Studies at the Institut für Schulpädagogik (Institute for School Pedagogy) at Philipps University in Marburg
Claudia Hummel, project director at the KontextSchule Berlin, an educational model for artistic work at schools, teacher at the Institut für Kunst im Kontext (Institute for Art in Context) at the Berlin University of the Arts
1st Salon gathering: "Climate protection – nothing less than a question of survival" with Martin Rocholl, strategic director and head of the Transport section of the European Climate Foundation, Den Haag
Module 4: Cultural dimension of sustainability
Goals:
To reflect on the fourth dimension of sustainability
To explore the link between knowledge and action
To learn about consumption and lifestyle as project themes
To learn about school projects
To test out the Future Workshop method
With:
Peter Gnielczyk, consultant for further education and knowledge management at the German Federation of Consumer Organisations Berlin (Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband - VZBV)
Irina Papke, elementary school educator, in charge of the Lernwerkstatt for the Berlin-Pankow district at the Falkplatz school
Horst Mauer, Visionslabor, self-employed in the area of creative problem-solving, consensus-oriented planning and public participation processes
2nd Salon gathering: "Culinary culture as sustainability in the interplay between political ethics and the good life" with Harald Lemke, philosopher and curator, instructor at the Institute of Cultural Theory, Research and the Arts (Institut für Kulturtheorie, Kulturforschung und Künste) at the Leuphana University in Lüneburg
Module 5: Cultural education
Goals:
Clarification of terms: Art – pedagogy, cultural education
Orientation in discourse and the practice of cultural education, discussions of their strategic-conceptual implications
To learn about and discuss examples of cultural education
With:
Peter Reichenbach, artist, since 2002 he has been setting up dye gardens to produce dyes naturally from plants in the Ruhr region (Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Wuppertal, Hagen) and has created a network for dye gardens worldwide
Michael Wimmer, director of EDUCULT – Arts Education Monitoring System, instructor for cultural issues at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Vienna
Barbara Meyer, artist and art mediator, managing director and artistic director of the international JugendKunst- und Kulturhaus Schlesische 27 in Berlin-Kreuzberg
Module 6: Participation
Goals:
To reflect on participation as a guiding principle and basic condition for sustainable development
To learn about participation as a didactic and methodological principle within ESD
To contextualise participation as an artistic method
To analyse forms of participation in the individual projects
With:
Constanze Eckert, artist and art mediator, project director at the KontextSchule Berlin, an educational module for artistic work at schools
Lorenz Hippe, who holds a degree in theatre studies and works at various theatres as a drama teacher, dramatic advisor and director including Berlin, Potsdam, Marburg and Heidelberg
3rd Salon gathering: "Sustainability and gender. Basic correlations and how to shape them in the future using the concept of responsible business" with Adelheid Biesecker, em. Professor for Economic Theory in the Economics Department at the University of Bremen, until 2002 member of the Committee of Inquiry "Die Zukunft des Bürgerschaftlichen Engagements" (The Future of Civil Participation) of the German Bundestag
Module 7: Excursion to Dresden
Goals:
To visit and learn about projects for cultural education
To discuss standards, experiences and overall conditions for the projects
To work on individual projects: Set goals and criteria
Develop conditions for success and criteria for practical project implementation
With:
Project participants in Idee 01239 e.V. Dresden-Prohlis, http://idee01239.dynamic-pc.de/
Project participants in White Cube / Black Box Dresden, http://www.white-cube-black-box.de
Module 8: Communication
Goals:
To sensitise and train for voice, language, presentation skills
To learn about special features of communication in schools
To present and discuss project ideas in front of experts and supporters
With:
Claudia Maaß, sprích - speaking, conveying, communicating, instructor in teacher education at the Free University in Berlin and teacher at the Berlin International School for German as a foreign language, philosophy and performance.
Martin Stenkamp, sprích - speaking, conveying, communicating, speech therapist, voice therapist, actor
Guests:
Hortensia Völckers, artistic director of the Federal Cultural Foundation and artistic director of ÜBER LEBENSKUNST
Bernd Scherer, director of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt and artistic director of ÜBER LEBENSKUNST
Andrea Peschel, head coordinator of ÜBER LEBENSKUNST
Janek Müller, curator and dramatic advisor for ÜBER LEBENSKUNST
Agnes Wegner, business manager for ÜBER LEBENSKUNST
Gerhard de Haan, director of the Future Institute at the FU Berlin and project director of ÜBER LEBENSKUNST.School
Rahel Puffert, art mediator, project supervisor for ÜBER LEBENSKUNST.School
Constanze Eckert, artist and art mediator, speaker at the ÜBER LEBENSKUNST.School
Jürgen Marek, former director of the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Gymnasium school in Hamburg
Hilla Metzner, teacher at the Applied University of Social Education in Charlottenburg, representative for ESD in the Berlin Senate for Education, Science and Research
Harry Funk, teacher at the Bettina-von-Arnim high school in Reinickendorf, representative for ESD in the Berlin Senate for Education, Science and Research
Module 9: "Joker Module", structured by participants
Goal:
To respond to the specific needs of participants
(project management, legal questions, positioning in the field of art and cultural pedagogy, discussion about progressive approaches to teaching at schools, advice from colleagues on project development)
4th Salon gathering: History of political participation with Helmut Höge, journalist, writer, editor at the taz newspaper
Module 10: Summary, transfer and outlook
Goals:
Retrospective, reflection, feedback for the educational programme
Summary of the practical and conceptual interface between cultural education and ESD
Representing, contextualising and networking school projects
Basics of supporting research and development of opportunities for project support, evaluation and documentation
With:
Constanze Eckert (see above)
Gerhard de Haan (see above)
And others
