Name: V!LD ANNUAL What’s ART got to do with it?
Start: 2024-11-08T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-11-08T16:00:00+01:00
Location: A.C. Meyers Vænge 15, 2450 Copenhagen, Denmark

$V!LD ANNUAL What\u2019s ART got to do with it?$

Time to register for ViLD Annual 2024! https://www.events.aau.dk/event/vild-annual-conference-2024

Date: 8. November 2024
Venue: Aalborg University Copenhagen (building A)
Address: A. C. Meyers Vænge 15, 2450 København
Fee (before November 1st): 500,00 DKK (Coffee and lunch included)
Fee via online connection (before November 1st): 200 DKK

For the extended programme description visit V!LD's homepage:
https://www.kommunikation.aau.dk/vild-annual-conference-2024-e123076#8ad4330e-e079-48ef-b869-e5acea1443ac
This year we ask:
What’s ART got to do with it?
How to tackle the paradox that currently creativity, playfulness, practical excellence, and innovation – all which are traditionally seen to belong to the domain of the arts – are heavily promoted in the society and working life while at the same time the recognition of the visual arts education as a school discipline continues to be diminished?
We are pleased to extend to you an invitation to the ViLD Annual Conference organized at Aalborg University Copenhagen campus on November 8, 2024. The topic of 2024 conference takes its point of departure from our observation of an increasing interest in discourses that coin learning practices derived from art-based methods (e.g., creativity, playfulness, experimentation) while at the same time there is a decreasing interest in recognizing the potential that visual arts education holds to promote such learning practices in schools, universities, and beyond.
How come visual arts educators find themselves surrounded by discourses of creativity, playfulness, practical excellence, and innovation when their professional contribution to learning, teaching, and societal agency in and outside the educational system is continuously questioned? What perhaps makes visual arts educators shy away from dominant discourses of creativity and innovation and even contribute to their own marginalization? We would be delighted to share thoughts with you on how and why this paradox occurs in the educational system and beyond.
The primary objective of the conference is to foster a dialogic exploration of this paradox through a curious and critical lens. Our aim is to provide a platform for vibrant discussions and knowledge exchange among professionals, researchers, and students who share a mutual interest in uncovering the potential of visual practices in the realm of teaching, learning, and knowledge generation.
Programme:
9.00–9.30: Arrival and coffee
9.30–9.35: Welcome/ Mikael Vetner, Aalborg University
9.35–9.45: Introductory Setting the scene/ Mie Buhl, Aalborg University
9.45-10.30: Keynote: Artpreneurship: exploring the ethics, integrity and sustainable development of forming novel, cross-sector partnerships and the implications to creative professionals and education/ Anniina Suomienen, Aalto University
10.30–10.35. Coffee break
10.35–11.15: Panel with three speakers for 10 minutes each on F(r)ictions of Art and / Juuso Tervo, Aalto Uni, Practical and creative products in social sciences /Anders Stig Christensen/ UCL Playfulness & Artfulness – what is the difference/ Jennifer Skriver, DSDK
11.15 -11.45: Round table discussions about the three talks from panel speakers
11.45–12.00: Plenary discussion with the Panel speakers/ Mie Buhl, Aalborg University
12.00–12.45: Lunch
12.45–13.15: What’s art education got to do with social justice? Examples from Hungary and the United States. Sara Reka, (Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, HU/ MSc in Service Systems Design (Aalborg University, DK) NM NoVA & Betsy Zaubler, (BA Wesleyan University US) NM NoVA
13.15 –14.15: Walk and Talk (online/physical) Facilitated by NM NoVA students
14.15 –14.30: Presentation of the EDDA project on mapping the Nordics’ visual arts education, Kir Thrane and Jessica Foster, Copenhagen University College/ NM NoVA
14.30-14.45: Coffee break
14.45-15.45: Outlook and new horizons: The role of visual arts education in a contemporary educational landscape. Co-creative exercise by all participants / Mie Buhl & Maria Hvid Bech Dille, Aalborg University
15.45 – 15.50: Announcement of upcoming publication by editors, Henrik Bjørnemose Andersen, University College Syd & Kirsten Bak Andersen Via University
15.50-15.55: Shout out from Danmarks Billedkunstlærere