The department understands art education as a research-based, ecological and socially effective practice. The focus is on the examination of perception, materiality and the relationships between people, nature and the environment. Artistic activity opens up opportunities to experience resonance, establish connections and take responsibility in dealing with the world.

Our teaching and learning spaces are places for joint research and design. Here we experiment, observe and negotiate - between individual expression and collective experience. Learning with and through art means exploring the world through sensory, tactile and material approaches, perceiving cyclical processes of becoming and passing away and trying out new forms of living and working together.

This attitude is combined with a critical examination of Western-influenced modes of perception and colonial image and discourse regimes. Art education thus becomes a laboratory for being-in-the-world: open, experimental and relational. It links aesthetic, ecological and social issues and promotes an attitude that aims for mindfulness, participation and sustainable transformation.