Torsten Meyer

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Torsten Meyer (born February 25, 1965 in Hamburg ) is a German art teacher and professor of art and its didactics at the University of Cologne.

Life

Meyer studied educational science , sociology , philosophy and art at the University of Lüneburg , the University of Hamburg and the University of Fine Arts Hamburg .

From 1996 to 1999 Meyer received a graduate scholarship from the German Research Foundation (DFG), Graduate College “Aesthetic Education”, in the Department of Education at the University of Hamburg. From 1997 he worked as a lecturer and research assistant at the Universities of Hamburg and Lüneburg in the field of art education, cultural informatics and general educational science.

In 2002 Meyer received his doctorate in philosophy with the dissertation “Interfaces, Media, Education. In addition to comments on a subject for interfaces: art-pedagogy. ”, For which he received the Karl Heinz Ditze Prize for outstanding dissertations from the University of Hamburg.

In 2004 he was appointed junior professor for educational science at the University of Hamburg, with a special focus on research and teaching in the field of multimedia, with a focus on didactics of the fine arts in the field of educational science.

Since 2010 Meyer has been Professor of Art and its Didactics with a focus on current media culture at the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Cologne , at the Institute for Art and Art Theory. His work focuses on pedagogical media theory, globalization & digitization, mediology of education and next art education. In addition, Meyer was spokesman for the art / music department there from 2011 to 2016.

In 2014 he turned down the professorship for art didactics at the Mainz University of Art.

From 2016 to 2019 Meyer was Managing Director of the Institute for Art & Art Theory.

Meyer has been Scientific Director of the Grimme Research College at the University of Cologne since 2016.

Torsten Meyer is a founding member of the Scientific Society for Art, Media and Education (together with Andreas Brenne, Klaus-Peter Busse, Christine Heil, Karl-Josef Pazzini , Rudi Preuss, Andrea Sabisch, Ansgar Schnurr, Tanja Wetzel) and its 2nd chairman.

In a twelve-person initiative group, he organized the "BuKo12", the Federal Congress of Art Education 2010–2012. Local workshops took place all over Germany for two years, all with the main theme of participation. This was not only a topic in terms of content, but also a guiding principle for the organization of participatory conference forms and congress structures. The relationship between art and pedagogy and education, which is important for subject didactics, was highlighted along the lines of internationalization and globalization, changed media cultures, cooperation models and school development. The two-year project was concluded with a large congress in Dresden in October 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://whtsnxt.net/bookauthor/meyer
  2. ↑ http://medialogy.de/vita/
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ http://kunst-medien-bildung.de
  5. ↑ http://kunst-medien-bildung.de/vorstand/
  6. ↑ http://www.buko12.de
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Torsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art teacher
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg