Mindaugas Gapševičius

Standardization and rules are not the only issues art education must deal with in present times. Alongside increasing tuition fees, the challenges facing art education in a variety of art forms, also include the lack of professional and skilled tutors.[1]

The Bologna Process, a reform of higher education was created in 1999 in order to standardize education processes in European schools and to propose comparable academic degrees.[2] Although most higher education institutions have signed Bologna Process agreements, the reform was and still is hardly implemented within German schools.[3] Nevertheless, the Bologna Process is not only about standardization as it still leaves institutions the right to decide on fundamental principles of autonomy, for instance, the quantity of theoretical classes to be taken by practice based students.[4] The Bologna Process and European directives could also become very interesting by offering interdisciplinary approaches and mobility programs giving students a possibility to attend classes in other universities and still complete studies in their home universities.

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Žilvinas Lilas

On 14-15 Juni 2010 MigAA-Deutschkreis staged a semi-spontaneous post-Royan re-union.

In tune with MigAA’s spirit and as part of Lab.D’s (labd.khm.de) series of workshops on socially embedded playable systems and with the creative guidance by Tom Russotti (www.aesthletics.org), MigAA-DE group held a “walk out and play” action in Cologne. Driven by passion to ignite public spaces and turn them into vibrant creative and open context, for two days we developed scenarios of engagement and conducted number of performative collective acts in the outdoor public setting.

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