The Artists’ Glasses – Visualizing and Transferring Artistic attitudes of Thinking and Working Erasmus Project

Project Title

The Artists’ Glasses – Visualizing and Transferring Artistic attitudes of Thinking and Working

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 vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

In a world of more and more dynamic and complexity, creativity is THE key competence to steer and implement economic and social processes. The project ARTISTS’ GLASSES wants to give access to the potential of artists for other professional groups so that they can experience and use it. Typical artistic competences are the handling of open, unsecure and non-projectable situations and the creative use of cooperations. These competences can be shown, taught and trained.

The ARTISTS’ GLASSES 2 build on the knowledge and results of the previous project of Erasmus+ (09/2014 – 02/2017), which examined and described attitudes of artistic thinking and working over all artistic sections. The new project involves artists in the teaching process. In various platforms they could show their artistic attitudes so that others were able to perceive them. Furthermore, artists could offer fields to experience artistic processes, cooperation and reflection to other professional groups. With speeches and discussions with artists of all sections, participants learned how artists approach a topic, how they create ideas and find solutions, how they overcome crisis, how they use their creative potential.

Based on the transfer of artistic forms of expression and problem solving patterns into the cosmos of experience of other people, the project contributed to acquire creative competences that are related to practice. The target groups were people in vocational education or in further trainings such as teachers of colleges and schools, students and apprentices. Furthermore people working in the economy such as managers, vocational trainers, staff developers and employees as well as people who wanted to train their personality related to creativity.

Due to the high workload involved Erasmus+ highly recommended to spit the project in two smaller projects and therefore to shorten it from three to two years. Therefore, the project changed some focuses and topics.

The first format would have been a walk-in learning platform where artists would have been involved. This format was not realized in this project but foreseen for the next project. Therefore, Schloss Tirol as our fourth partner was not involved in this project. In order to realize the next project it was necessary to look for suitable places in different countries during this project period. The reason for the early contacts was the long lead times because institutions have booked their rooms already years in advance. Finally four educational and artistic institutions could have been engaged in order to realize the following project ARTISTS’ GLASSES 3, in time.

The next format consisted of arts-based Mini-Think Tanks. Students of the Master program „Nonprofit-Management und Public Governance” at the University of Applied Sciences (HTW) Berlin, employees of nonprofit organizations and artists work trans-disciplinarily on an entrepreneurial problem of the involved organizations over a few weeks. Arts-based inputs and exercises were given to acquaint the participants with artistic attitudes that can be tested in practical cases. The goal was to find new solutions out of unexpected perspectives. The cooperation with artists offered to experience, imitate and train their attitudes as well as to reflect the transferability to concrete working situations. The conceptual basis, the working process, the developed solutions as well as the learnings was documented.

The third format encompassed two training courses for managers in order for them to develop and train arts-based competence. In nine relevant modules, they engulfed themselves in artistic thinking and working attitudes. The practical part and self-experience in artistic hands-on mini-processes, the exchanges with artists as well as the transferability to their professional environments were essential. The courses were held in the Bildungshaus Schloss Goldrain in South Tyrol, Italy. Both courses, one with six and the other one with nine modules, were evaluated. Two evaluators examined the goals, process and learnings/benefit together with the participants, the teacher and director of Schloss Goldrain in each course. The conceptual basis, the procedure, the outputs and the learnings of the two training courses is documented.

Due to the shortage, the foreseen online digital information platform was not realized.

The following partners are involved: The project leader and owner of Kubus Kulturvermittlung from Liechtenstein is the initiator of the ARTISTS’ GLASSES leading managers, employees and apprentices through arts-based processes. The project partner at the University of Applied Sciences (HTW) Berlin researches theoretically and empirically the interfaces of economy and the arts. The director of the adult education institute Schloss Goldrain in South Tyrol / Italy, brings wide experience in adult education and in vocational training courses.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 252054 Eur

Project Coordinator

kubus Kulturvermittlung & Country: LI

Project Partners

• Bildungshaus Schloss Goldrain
• Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin