Description

Societies across the globe face rapid transformations, pushed forward by internal and external factors. Artists are tasked with adapting to new ways of living, learning, co-existing in diverse communities and reacting to local and global change.

The summer school programmes take place in various locations in Asia and Europe, as well as online. They focus on transcultural and transdisciplinary collaboration, inviting students from across all disciplines to work together in small teams. Participants explore ways of engaging with communities and address the concerns of social transformation through art and design approaches. Using various research methods, artistic and design strategies (field recordings and field research, critical analytical approaches, analysis of discourses surrounding social issues), they can reflect on their own creative practice and situate it within larger socio-political contexts.

Two distinct summer schools are being offered each year. One focussing on socially engaged arts and the other one on social design.

Applicants

Both summer school programmes offer places to students from a wide range of arts and design disciplines, including performing arts, film, music, fine arts, media arts, design, and art education.

Faculty

The faculty conducting these summer schools comes from a variety of artistic and design disciplines as well as from different cultural backgrounds. Each year the team is configured in different constellations and bringing in different local partners.