Cultural agents for creative schools

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Cultural agents for creative schools was a program of the non-profit MUTIK GmbH (formerly Forum K&B), funded by the Mercator Foundation and the Federal Cultural Foundation. The program started with a model phase that ran from 2011 to 2015 and then went on to a transfer phase until 2019, in which the five participating states Baden-Württemberg, Berlin, Hamburg, North Rhine-Westphalia and Thuringia implemented it as their respective state programs. Around 50 cultural agents each accompanied a local network of usually three schools. Over the past eight years, more than 100,000 children and young people have made their own artistic experiences at around 250 schools as part of the cultural agent program.

Goal setting and development

The aim of the program was to arouse curiosity for artistic activities in children and young people and to impart more knowledge about art and culture . To this end, a comprehensive and interdisciplinary range of cultural education has been developed in the schools and cooperation between schools and cultural institutions has been established. From 2011 to 2019, more than 100,000 children and young people made their own artistic experiences at around 250 schools as part of the cultural agent program. Cultural agent projects and schools received over 120 prizes between 2016 and 2019 alone, the so-called transfer phase of the cultural agent program.

Cultural agents

The task of cultural agents is to develop artistic school projects with teachers, pupils, school management, parents, artists and cultural institutions. To this end, cooperation between schools and cultural institutions such as museums, concert halls, libraries, theaters and cultural centers is being established. The participating schools can apply for so-called “art money” to implement the artistic projects.

Cultural agents are people with an artistic background and have experience in providing cultural education in schools. They support the schools in developing artistic projects, in establishing and expanding cooperation with one another and with cultural institutions. Based on the strengths and goals of the schools, the cultural agents moderate and advise the development process in the schools.

Advanced training

In the model phase, the cultural agents received further training in both regional and supraregional training courses. This academy promoted the exchange of cultural agents and established a nationwide network. The academy's speakers included a. Gob Squad , Constanza Macras, Seraphina Lenz , Fiona Whelan and Antje Schiffers.

Publications

In the course of the model program, numerous concepts, projects, formats and structures have been developed and implemented as to how cultural education can be anchored in schools and cultural institutions. The publication Mission Kulturagenten documents and reflects the associated processes and discourses both online and in a print version. In this way, empirical knowledge from the program is made available in the form of transferable project and qualification models for actors from the field of cultural education such as schools, cultural institutions, artists, universities and politics.

  • Module 1: Profile cultural agent - experiences and insights
  • Module 2: Mission change - culture and education in dialogue
  • Module 3: Reflection - Between Theory and Practice
  • Module 4: Mission vision - cultural road maps of creative schools

Funding and Financing

The project was funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and the Mercator Foundation in the federal states of Baden-Württemberg , Berlin , Hamburg , North Rhine-Westphalia and Thuringia . Partners were the Bundesvereinigung Kulturelle Kinder- und Jugendbildung eV, the German Children and Youth Foundation , the State Association for Cultural Youth Education Baden-Württemberg and the State Association for Cultural Youth Education Thuringia, funding partner of the Federal Association for Cultural Children and Youth Education (BKJ) eV, Cultural Education Office in Schools Youth work NRW, Dconecco gUG - culture, development and management.

From the 2015/16 school year onwards, the “Cultural Agents for Creative Schools” program was continued as a state program in the federal states of Baden-Württemberg, Berlin, Hamburg, North Rhine-Westphalia and Thuringia.

For the 2019/2020 school year, the cultural agent's professional profile was partly successful in the country structures. There will continue to be cultural agents in almost all of the countries involved in the program, but Baden-Württemberg is not continuing the program. The other federal states and municipalities are building on the structures developed over the eight years of the program and adapting them to their individual needs.

Press reviews

Movies

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ News. In: kulturagenten-programm.de. Retrieved November 9, 2019 .