Beyond Art Disciplines Erasmus Project

Project Title

Beyond Art Disciplines

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Cooperation between educational institutions and business

Project Summary

The project BAD aim to:
• develop strategies for cross-artistic collaboration
• develop methods and tools for collaboration and non-hierarchical structures in an artistic and pedagogical process
• explore the artists educational and societal need for innovation and new ways of communicating with an audience
In general, different partners have been contributing to the project by the way they represented specific art disciplines. Reykjavik brought the disciplines Music and Drama, Stockholm Performance and Opera and Groningen Music and Visual Arts. Exploring perspectives from these diverse artforms has been pivotal for the development of our transdisciplinary approaches and material.
The method of the project has been developed addressing various subjects connected to our collaboration and art making process as well as learning and teaching in a transdisciplinary setting. A practice-based perspective to the creative learning, teaching, and training has been important in the methodology.

The BAD project consists of 3 IOs:
• A Transdisciplinary Art Module
The module presents learning, teaching and training activities which were developed by emerging themes from workshops held during the project. The output gives insight into the development phase and experiments made, present a practical perspective to the creative learning, teaching and training approaches to be used by teachers and students within the transnational field of performing arts, theatre, opera, music, fine art and design, as well as providing theoretical insight into the theme. In an interdisciplinary cross-art setting all participants will through this module expand, improve and enhance their community of practice, professional development and employability.
• Studies and Analyses
The output includes studies of four artists and two in collectives who all share the quality of having placed an interdisciplinary approach at the center of their work. The result is detailed in the BAD publication and provided lessons and insights, a basis for the module and the learning material.
• Learning and Teaching Material
The concrete material is a card game and guidance material describing and exploring new pedagogical methods and strategies for transdisciplinary artistic collaboration were developed and discovered and tested during the project. The BAD Game is focusing on how to explore and develop pedagogical methods and strategies for cross-artistic collaboration in performing arts, visual arts, opera, and music, and how to develop methods and tools for collaboration and non-hierarchical structures in an artistic and pedagogical process. The guidelines give a pedagogical frame that reflects on what has been explored and developed during the BAD project and a starting point for new development and approaches to the BAD artwork, beyond arts disciplines. The publication provides detailed descriptions of the game and all the material needed.

The overall project management and implementation of project results were secured by the initial planning of 3 IOs and 4 LTT as mentioned in the application. Each IO and LTT had a main responsible institution for the implementation and monitoring. The main project coordinator was overall responsible for ensuring a proper budget control and time management of the project.

Methods developed during the BAD project will affect in the coming years tens of educators and hundreds of students at the partner institutions. At regional level approximately 15 external institutions and 20 organizations from the participating countries has in a way or another participated in the project activities. Through the online availability of the results and their presentations at specific conferences, hundreds of professionals from the field have already been inspired by the project activities at European level. The set-up of the project has been shared as an example with colleagues from a number of projects and networks the BAD consortium are involved in. The project has definitively contributed to highlighting crucial aspects of cross-art and modernization of teaching arts in higher arts education. Through the development and testing of innovative content which have led to new joint module within the partner institutions, the learning and new methods – the BAD Game as a concert outcome – tested within the project will be used. The methodology has the potential to be used in many other contexts where collaboration spanning discipline boundaries is of interest.

There will be a continuous and deepened collaboration with the partner institutions in the consortium through the joint module within each partner´s ordinary educational program. Future collaboration and Erasmus+ exchanges involving teachers and students from the three partner institutions will take place with the support of the Erasmus+ KA1 programme. The joint module has been introduced into the academic offer of the partners and will be run every academic year.

Project Website

https://www.badeducation.net

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 187954,19 Eur

Project Coordinator

STOCKHOLMS KONSTNARLIGA HOGSKOLA & Country: SE

Project Partners

• HANZEHOGESCHOOL GRONINGEN STICHTING
• LISTAHASKOLI ISLANDS