Som del av satsningen på estetiske og praktiske arbeidsmåter i pedagogikken har vi invitert professor, kunstner og forfatter Shelley Sachs til Steinerhøyskolen. Hun har et foredrag 11. mai etterfulgt av en tre-dagers workshop. Foredrag og workshop foregår på engelsk:
Educators as Artists of the Future: enabling capacities for the future in the age of confusion between human beings, life, and machines
Shelley skriver om foredraget: My talk will introduce the transformative connective practice and pedagogy I have developed, inspired in part by Schiller’s views on the ‘aesthetic education of the human being’, Rudolf Steiner’s ideas of ‘social art’ and Joseph Beuys ‘social sculpture’ proposals.
Og om workshopen:
Developing Capacities for the Future and the Sacrament of Encounter
In this sequence of three ‘connective practice’ workshops we will explore ways of working with imagination that enable capacities for the future and help us as educators of the human being in this age of great challenges, including the confusion about the difference between human beings, life and machines.
The workshops will introduce the ‘inner workspace’ or ‘inner atelier’, and its in-depth use, through several creative encounters: with oneself, with the planet, with another, with a tree, with a machine, and with an active imagination on what it means to encounter and to teach.
This artistic approach to encountering shares Rudolf Steiner’s view that ‘the sacrament of the future is to encounter’ [‘Das Sakrament der Zukunft ist Begegnung’]
Om Shelley Sachs
I am an artist, author, curator, and educator developing connective practices and social-aesthetic approaches for working towards a living eco-social future.
My social art practice and pedagogy has evolved over five decades through exploring the role of imagination in transformative practice. This connective, transformative practice involves developing capacities for the future including re-schooling the senses and enabling people to explore, individually and together, ways of being that work with difficulties as opportunities and encourage interconnectedness.
After an education in Fine Art and Philosophy in Cape Town, I studied and worked with Joseph Beuys, moving between South Africa and Germany, working as an artist, in universities as an educator-researcher, and with communities. Since 2018 I have been Professor Emerita from Oxford Brookes University where, as part of my practice, I developed and led programs in ‘Art and Healing’, ‘Connective Practice’ and ‘Social Sculpture’ for over 20 years. What I share with Joseph Beuys and Rudolf Steiner is the emphasis on an ‘expanded idea of art’ in which every human being can be, and needs to become, an artist of their own lives, the society, and the future.
Recent work in Stockholm with 60 Waldorf teachers and staff, keynotes for the UK Waldorf Teachers Conference and the ‘Human Intelligence’ global conference for Waldorf educators in Vienna, and intensive ‘connective practice’ work in mainstream schools in Germany, have shared ways of exploring ‘education for freedom’ and ‘the aesthetic education of the human being’ that emphasize the value of the human being in our work toward a living future.
https://www.shelleysacks.com/
https://socialsculpturelab.com/