VIA

Values, Identity, Art

Austria, Vienna
TOLERANCE, FLOW, LIFE

Jessica Kennedy White, BA (hons) M.Sc Wolfson,

University of OxfordTOLERANCE
Jessicakennedywhite@gmail.com
 Summary
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• Vision Statement
• Mission Statement
• Context
• Target Beneficiaries
• Project Strategy
• Proposed Implementation
• Funding required
 Vision Statement

VIA-Values Identity Art is latin for `way`. VIA

is a way to life through art calling for
appreciation of diversity within different
communities, so that understanding and
information flow between communities can
increase.
 Mission Statement

VIA by accepting diversity, advocates that the preservation

of identity is about accepting hybridity
VIA strengthens cultural identity and achievement for local,
national and international mobility.
 Das Projekt
Die Grundidee des V.I.A. Projekts, zeigt dass man durch
gegenseitiges interkulturelles Verständnis und durch
Akzeptanz der Verschiedenheit den Informationsaustausch
zwischen verschiedenen Gemeinschaften fördern und so zu
einem interkulturellen Dialog beitragen kann. Jede
Gemeinschaft hat über einen längeren Zeitraum eine
Symbolik entwickelt durch die sie on anderen
Gemeinschaften wahrgenommen wird, doch genau hier
kommen oft Vorurteile zu tragen, da die Gemeinschaften
gegenseitig nur ihre vereinfachten Stereotypen und Vorurteile
sehen und so der Informationsaustausch schon im Vorfeld
zum Scheitern verurteilt ist.
 Current Context
Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008, Year of Innovation
2009. The
project covers both these realms. endorses the project
fully.
Susanne Bransteidl head of schools fully endorses the
project and infrastructure will be supported and by the
Stadt Schul Rat, several supporters (see following
slides) with similar missions are beginning to
collaborate with IAE
 Stakeholders
IAE was founded by Jessica White in May `07 and is
now being developed with Mag. Dip.Ing Erwin Hübl.
VIA is a project that emenated from that and is supported
from the iniative ACES that is created by the
Interkulturelle Zentrum and funded by the Erste Stiftung
The supporting organizations are Michael Wimmer
EDUCULT http://www.educult.at KulturKontakt and Horst
Tschaikner, Rupert Corazza at StadtShulRat Wien in
Susanne Bransteidl Head of Schools Bureau. They fully
endorse the project and consult on project competance
and infrastructure.
Further consultants include child psychologists and
educators: Prof. Dr. Toni Reinelt and Prof. Dr. Gisela
Gerber
 Projectguggenheim

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Projectguggenheim seeks to provide high quality training

in traditional skills for young artists and artisans. Our
schools and programs aim to encourage innovation
because for traditions to survive they must respond
creatively to new cultural and economic challenges in
their environment.
 Saksala, Finland
www.saksala.org
The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative
relationships.

Symposium in Finland last week of May for

Teachers
Proposed Speakers:
• Kirsimaria Törönen – chairman http://www.wakewa.net/
• Riitta Moisander - Arts Council secretary-general
http://www.taideverkossa.net/
• Mervi Riikonen – children's culture
• http://www.tarinamaki.fi/index.php?openmenu=3
• Aapo Repo – regional artist – children's culture
• http://www.nukkereaktori.com/fi/
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8u038M9QDE
• http://www.nukkis.net/galleria/arketal/index.php
• Minna Vilenius – regional artist – performing arts
• http://www.aanekoskenteatteri.fi/koulutus/kurssit/
 Symbolic construction
of
community

Symbolically simple public face

Seen from the outside contradicts
Symbolically complex private face
Seen from the inside
 Context
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Current situation
• Lack of cross-curricular links hindering open-mindedness towards
education and culture
• Latent indifference and apathy towards different communities, causing
prejudices
Existing Initiatives
• Initiatives have not succeeded in raising awareness of diversity within
different communities and schools leaving stereotypes & lack of
information flow between the different communities
• There are no philanthropic activities targeted currently at this situation
 Target Beneficiaries
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Target Beneficiaries
• Students from Vienna, Budapest Secondary School of Applied Arts in
Budapest and Satu Mare Satu Mare "Kolcsey Ferenc Fogimnazium"
aged 16-18 being exposed to intercultural communication with each other
through methods of art education
Delivery
• Mixed workshops to be held with artists in interactive workshops
with stimulus provided by artists studios and museums in Vienna
including Sucession and Kunsthalle. The workshops allow contact
and interaction between communities through art raising awareness
of diversity
• Discussion based seminars in http://www.theresianumgasse10.at
 Aims and Objectives
VIA covers a broad range of issues that include
identity, diversity, understanding with regards to ones
own community and others; identifying the ways in
which people are stereotyped and explore ways of
appreciating differences; understand the power of art
to affect perception and express ideas; engage in
personal expression through photography, drawing,
painting, collage, movement and theatre. Develop
skills in visual literacy by responding to works of art
both verbally and in writing.
 VIA Advocacy
• Enabling teenagers who are traditionally
the subjects of art and education to
become its co-creator
• Giving a voice to those who are too often
ignored or silenced
• Enabling participants to become
advocates for change
• Enabling participants to inform and affect
policy on local and international levels
 Proposed Implementation
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Service
• Interactive Workshops (4-6 hours)
• Seminars for teachers and art educators with diversity consultants
and policy makers in Teresaniumgasse in Vienna
• Workshops: 1 Artist/ Art Educator per worksop
• Jessica White & Kaspar Kock moderator/facilitator
• Workshops for up to one week in each country. In Vienna
workshops in collaboration with a variety of museums such as:
Secession, Kunsthalle, MUMOK, Jewish Museum, MAK. As well
as in collaboration with Art Educators and teachers
• Film funded by Kulturkontakt about the teenagers lives in Vienna,
Budapest, Romania.
 Promotion
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Promotion Delivery
• Existing promotion carried out with all stakeholders
• Widespread acceptance & enthusiasm
• EDUCULT will provide press release
services
• Full project description at www.educult.at
Administration
• EDUCULT based in the museum’s quarter provide legal
basis
 Workshops and Seminars
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Providing training in vocational art

education practice through Innovative
projects
Exploring heritage and identity
Intercultural dialogue
Cultural Diversity fluidity of language
 Values Identity Art
(Phase 1: Sep-Dec 2008)
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Phase 1: Third week of Sept-third week of Dec

VIA is a part of IAE and heads innovative programs with a series of 3

workshops and 1 seminars.
 Seminars
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Curriculum integration

Seminars will precede workshops at

http://www.theresianumgasse10.at so that teachers, faith leaders,
art educators and artists are congruent in method, and in line
with the directives of the school. Whilst working with a variety of
art mediums. So that the workshops can then be integrated into
the school’s curriculum. In the first month of Phase One project
there will be a launch, a seminar and workshops
 Intercultural Art Education (IAE)
(Phase 2: Feb – July 2009)
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Phase 2: First week of Feb- First week in July

As in phase one, phase two will be workshops in

Budapest and Romania and seminars for students
from the three schools the age category 16-18 yrs.
 Projected Senario
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For future years IAE programs and modules

Will be rolled out to schools for students across Vienna,

Austria CEE, Russia, Finland, UK, USA and Asia, offered on a
global scale to students of all ages. With the financial support
of a variety of commercial sponsors and non-for-
profit/governmental donors.
 Innovative Art Education
Methods
Based on primary research of how art educators
engage with exhibitions and artefacts,
continental European museums focus on
dialogue, discussion and debate, whereas UK
museums focus on craftwork. Therefore, an
objective of this project is to merge the two
methods together integrating both theory and
practice for a praxis
 ICP and Luksuz

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The project is linked in with ICP International Centre of

Photography at The Point in the Bronx, NYC and Luksuz
connection that is a group of Film and Media Literacy
projects for Young People across Europe.
 Is Art Education just on the
side?
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"Once the door is opened, they don't want to

leave," Ms. Austin said, adding, "I think because
photography is so fluid and so immediate — it's
reflecting back to them a sense of possibility in
their lives they haven't seen before."
Combining Theory with Practice

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Visits to artist`s studios, elicitation

and interactive workshops
 Thematic Connections

• Community
• Ritual
• Inclusion and exclusion
• Diversity
• Stereotypes
• Memory
• Photography
• Narrative/storytelling
• Identity
• Tradition
 Photography

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Photo Elicitation and Photography workshop

Combining theory and practice

 Film and Writing

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Writing workshops will lead into film workshops

So that students can understand how all these
mediums can be linked
Illustration and Comic
Workshop

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Combining theory and practice

 Writing Workshop

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• Finding words and themes that fit locations creating sound-scapes

• Reconstruction: To reveal history as a narrative and open to change depending on
who narrates it.
• Context Switching: between historical periods
• Real letters: students write real letters to people in the past, present and future
• Collaborative writing
 Film and Writing

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Writing workshops will lead into film workshops

So that students can understand how all these
mediums can be linked so they can empower
themselves
For their own future creative expression
 Music

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In collaboration with members of Bauchklang-

Vocal Groove Project, students will experiment
with their voices around open spaces, working
on collaborative musical sound-scapes
Pilot workshop Feb - June `08
in relation to
Dress, Costume and Identity

The aim of this

workshop for students
to see themselves in
relation to identities
Q u ic k T im e ª a n d a
d e c o m p re s s o r
constructed in the
a r e n e e d e d t o s e e t h is p ic t u r e .
history of art of both
women and women
and in relation to men.
 Pilot 08
Photography Workshop

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The Social Life of Objects

Using objects from the past, we took students to the
contemporary context of where the objects came from
and what is there now.
 Evaluation

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Instead of using a method of

assessment that focuses on
goals, targets, exams and
grades in isolation, the art
education methods engages
students at both a creative and
analytical level
 Self and Peer Evaluation
Learning Logs: Focus
workshops activities and
does not include
comments about personal
matters.

Personal journals: Students

write whatever they wish.
Students record events in
their lives, explore ideas,
questions, fears,
concerns and other
thoughts
 Self and Peer Assessment
Peer and Self Assessment

Teachers will find the Learning Objectives useful as a point of reference in

mapping progression. Activities can be planned to provide a rich range of
experience and interaction with the new language and methods to promote
progress but also to allow ample opportunities for assessment for learning and
informal teacher assessment. Progress in all strands can be recorded using a
portfolio approach and more formal accreditation is available through the
International Recognition Scheme.

Peer and Self Assessment

The aim is to involve children in the analysis and constructive criticism of their
own work and that of others. Peer and self-assessment are ways of engaging
children in understanding their progress and identifying next steps in their
learning. They are not replacements for teacher marking and feedback but
important additional forms of assessment which encourage children to become
independent learners. If the assessment is to be effective, time must built in to
the lesson for structured reflection.
 Improving English Language
with
Personal Language Portfolios

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Competences will be evaluated by students, teachers,

artists and art educators through a language portfolio
provided by CILT and continuous self, peer and
mentor evaluation
 Tangible outcomes online
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All materials will be available in an online database to

which participants will have access. The curriculum will
also feature extensive online components at Maptales
(http://www.maptales.com), which will help facilitate the
creation of online communities around the topics
discussed.
 Tangible Outcomes

Exhibitions in Vienna, Budapest, and NYC

supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum
 Das Projekt
V.I.A. will sich vor Allem der
Problematik der eigenen Identität, der
Verschiedenheit und dem
gegenseitigen Verständnis widmen um
Vorurteile zu umgehen und einen
neuen Blickwinkel zu schaffen. Um
dies zu erreichen bedient sich V.I.A.
der Methode der Intercultural Art
Education“.
 Das Projekt
Die Schüler der Lauder Chabad School Vienna, Secondary
School of Applied Arts in Budapest, der Lauder School
Budapest und der Statu Mare „ Kolcsey Ferenc
Fogimnazium“ Rumänien werden in Workshops zu
verschiedenen Kunstrichtungen zusammenarbeiten und sich
Themen wie Gemeinschaft, Ritualen, Verschiedenheit,
Stereotypen, und Identität widmen. Hier legt das Projekt
besonderen Wert auf die Methodik, denn durch
„ Intercultural Art Education“ wird eine Verbindung zwischen
dem normalen Schulalltag und Kunst und Kultur geschaffen.
Die Schüler werden mit Künstlern verschiedener Richtungen
zusammen arbeiten und so ihre Kreativität nutzen, um sich
den für sie allgegenwärtigen Problemen aus einem anderen
Blickwinkel zu nähern und neue Lösungswege zu finden.