AI // Provoking art education // Dark pedagogy // Young people in Amman & Stockholm

Welcome to a symposium where the opportunities and challenges of visual pedagogy are discussed based on five different essays by graduating students at Konstfack's teacher education programmes. With an aim for sustainability and democracy, we explore art education through formal and informal spaces of knowledge, physical and virtual. The aim of the symposium is to deepen the conversation around the human need for aesthetics, as expression, place and function.

In addition to this solid program, snacks, active choices, live music and gifts are promised.

PROGRAM

14.00-14.40
Understanding Text-based AI Generative Art through Myth and Ideology
Amanda Sammeli
Welcome to a moment where we theoretically and practically approach AI-generated images together through the concepts of myth and ideology.

15.00-15.50
How do we equip students for democratic conversations through politically charged images?
Belinda Moren
A panel discussion about the democratic and value-based work in art education with a focus on how we deal with controversial issues.

16.00-16.45
Spectacular and splendid, speculations
Marie Eriksson
A Lecture Performance that examines speculative realism, dark pedagogy and image-making in the Anthropocene.

17.00-18.00
The youth of the urban space - from Stockholm to Amman
Sandrine Samuelsson and Katarina Seth
A conversation about practical strategies and cultural expressions used to link young people with the city where they live. Guests from Stockholm and Amman.