Art-Based (Un)learning – Unexpected Dialogues with Artworks

Since long many educators, artists, and academics have drawn attention to education as an open discipline, needing to be a creative space that ‘advocates agency over intention and whose trade is critical intimacy’ (Mieke Bal, 2012). Instead of a place for intimidation, conventions, and rules, it should be a place where friendship is the motor for response. It should look at hegemonic structures in society, pedagogy itself, and art, and be able to question these. Open, reversible, respectful pedagogies should lead to creative thinking, to open minds, to building critical and communicative citizenship. This volume of essays includes the fields of cinema studies, dance, fine arts, fashion, literature, design, music, theatre, photography, storytelling, technology studies, pedagogy, politics, sociology, psychology, medicine, media, and contemporary cultural studies.