Art-based methods for science education and sustainability (ARMESS)
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Project aim
The aim of the project is to mobilize different art-based methodologies to expand contents and methodological awareness on ERS (Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability) education and research at MDU.
Project manager at MDU
External project members
- Carmen Pellegrinelli, (PhD in Social Science, University of Lapland), theater director, producer, playwright and organizer of theater laboratories.
- Ella Hillström, PhD candidate in Social Anthropology (Stockholm University). Guest lecturer at Stockholm University of the Arts and part-time faculty at Parsons School of Design, NYC (2019-2020).
- Henny Stridsberg, (MA in Dance, University Paris 8), dance pedagogue and organizer of workshops in creative dance for sustainability in collaboration with MDU.
- Leni Grünbaum, Doctoral researcher in Management Studies (Aalto University), coach & facilitator, playback theater conductor and actor. In coaching individuals and groups, she draws on embodied, participatory ways of working that go beyond cognition and build community.
- Yari Stilo, (MA in Choreography and Performative Practices, Stockholm University of the Arts), performer, dancemaker and facilitator of immersive performances. Guest lecturer at Stockholm University of the Arts.
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About the project
While the development of competences in ethics, responsibility and sustainability (ERS) have become an urgent issue in education and for society, there is a need to re-think pedagogical approaches generative of more trasformational, critical and responsible learnings and doings among students, teachers and other societal actors.
ARMESS aims to explore ERS not as ready-made answers to be delivered but as ways of re-framing learning and working. It goes beyond dominant conceptualizations of knowledge as cognition to expand learning methods to include the realm of aesthetic enquiry, whereby knowledge is understood as coming from the body and the senses.
The proposition is centered on multiplying ways of knowing through transdisciplinary approaches at the cross-roads between the arts and science. At the center is the learner's own investigation, engagement and creativity, not the reproduction of already given knowledge.
In the framework of the ARMESS project a series of art-based methods will be adressed to different publics: students of (and across) the four MDU academies (EST, HVV, IDT and UKK), teachers and practitioners. ERS is enquired through creative, embodied and participatory methods coming from theater, creative dance, visuals, improvisation, creative writing and much more.
The program is a unique collaboration among professional facilitators from MDU, other universities as well as artists working with ERP topics (ranging from care work to environmental risks, from covid to gender issues, from urban sustainability to citizens’ engagement). Dialogue and cross-learning among the interventions will be fostered along the entire duration for the project.
- 2024-11-21 00:00 – 2024-11-22 00:00
