Art and culture must be taken into account when shaping digitisation, because it is not least they who actively help to shape society. With this appeal, Bernd Sibler, Minister of State of the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts, introduced the joint transfer conference of the DiKuBi-Meta meta-project and the Landesvereinigung Kulturelle Bildung Bayern on the topic of digitisation in cultural arts education on 30 November 2021.
Prof. Dr Benjamin Jörissen from the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg and head of the metaproject highlighted the importance of transformative education in his subsequent keynote speech. The UN Sustainable Development Goals also set requirements for education: happy learners who are to be motivated to make informed decisions. However, cultural resilience must also be taken into account so that educational processes can be designed in a sustainable and culturally sensitive way, Jörissen explained. The focus of research here is primarily on the characteristics of rootedness, resourcefulness and resistance as conditions for the preservation of cultures and identities.
One is theory and the other is practice. How do these two parts come together? Kathrin Demmler from the Institute for Media Education, representing academia, and theatre educator Michael Dietrich, representing practice, discussed this in an extremely humorous, thoughtful and innovative dialogue of relationships. How are projects planned, how are they applied for and how are they carried out? What does science need from practice in order to be able to research efficiently? What impulses does practice need from science in order to be able to develop meaningfully? And what are the basic and organisational requirements for a project? The two debated these and other questions with verve and thus made it clear how the interaction of science and practice in research projects can and should look.
In three different Campfire sessions, the participants could become active and contribute to the topics "More cultural participation and educational justice through digitalisation? Conditions of success for productive transfer" or "(Post-)Digitality in Cultural Arts Education". The main aim was to exchange experiences, give impulses and generate new ideas together: What can digitisation achieve? What hurdles are encountered in the implementation? What requirements do different target groups have? And how can digital formats be sensibly implemented and contribute to the enrichment of all?
The exchange at the transfer conference showed how important it is for cultural arts education to open up to digital formats. Especially against the backdrop of the Corona pandemic and the impending standstill of art and culture, it becomes clear how essential digital formats are. The fact is that art and culture shape society and are just as irreplaceable in times of lockdowns and output restrictions as they are elsewhere. At the same time, the conference also raised questions and pointed to unconscious expectations and role understandings. How do science and practice relate to each other? How interlocked are they and when does it make sense to separate the roles/concepts? The conference made us aware of how "art-based education" or "artist-led education" can remove boundaries and create new forms and spaces of joint educational support - not least with the help of digitalisation. It remains exciting!
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Malin Nissen is a research assistant in the MetaKLuB project and works in the area of public relations, among other things.
Dr. Luise Fischer is a research fellow and the coordinator. Among other things, she is responsible for (post-)qualitative research and networking.