Workshop:
Special tools in special circumstances – on the connection between art and crisis,
creativity and catastrophe.
Art and crisis management take on different tasks in society and pursue different goals; nevertheless, there is a comprehensive commonality: mechanisms and framework conditions that trigger a crisis can be congruent with those that generate creativity, according to the principle: necessity is the mother of invention.
A workshop with Franziskus Bayer and Margit Schild, (Düsseldorf and Berlin, October 2024), as in-house training and as part of the offerings of educational institutions.
Thesis paper: PDF
Target groups:
Public institutions, e.g. career centers at universities and colleges; schools (senior classes), e.g. ethics, politics or art classes; trade union, church, political and independent providers of extracurricular educational work, e.g. educational academies; companies/service providers in the creative industries that rely on the further development of idea-finding and problem-solving strategies, as well as companies, employees in emergency and crisis management and those active in civil protection.
Selection of possible working techniques:
Dealing with complexity; illustrating complex issues using film scenes,
Group-related creativity techniques, creative individual exercises,
Problem definition to solution definition,
Acting under time pressure,
Viewing, categorizing and prioritizing,
Plan discussion,
Creation of images by the participants,
biography work,
scenario work,
small group work and exchange,
feedback rounds.
General conditions:
Half-day, full-day, weekend workshops,
One-day workshop: 6.5 hours seminar, 1.5 hours. Break,
Half-day workshops: 3.5 hours seminar, 0.5 hours break,
Weekend workshop: 10-12 hours seminar, 2-3 hours break.
Please send an e-mail to arrange the conditions.