M-MT-BB

Profile, extension and depth: Practical Classes

3

Group size: max 1 student per department (J&P, CFT, MT, Master - with permission of head)

2 full weeks

Period: 2 January - 10 January 2027 in Nairs, Switzerland. 20 June - 3 July in location TBA.

80 hours (twice a full week abroad)

4 hours

Must be enrolled in 3rd of 4th year of CFT, J&P or MT or either year of Master.

See Competencies Matrix.

Practicing collaborative transdisciplinary work with international students and growing a critical self-awareness through co-creation and therefore extending one’s artistic possibilities.

Related to the project, main subject and theory modules.

Building Bridges is about process-oriented, collaborative work within a varied group of international students from different artistic disciplines from three or four different art universities, so far: Aalto University, Helsinki, University of Tartu-Viljandi Culture Academy; and Zürich University of Arts.
Building bridges allows for a form of collaboration where all participants are confronted with unfamiliar perspectives and aesthetic approaches and are asked to question their own. Transdisciplinary artistic work especially trains one of the most crucial skills for anyone engaged in collaborative arts: communication. Firstly, the usage of a foreign language requires an additional dimension of reflection about what one intends to convey, and, secondly, a common artistic vocabulary has to be evolved and continually reviewed.
The course contains two separate work-weeks (January 2027 en June 2027) abroad.

2 separate full weeks on location (different cities in Europe), guided by different international coaches
Assignments and methodology: building bridges takes into account that a diverse and transdisciplinary group is collaborating in different cultural surroundings and locations.

n/a

Tools, tools, tools: building bridges trains a myriad of methods and tools to continuously improve the collaborative experience and to expand artistic possibilities beyond one’s own discipline.
Reflect: Participants learn how to give, receive and use structured feedback with different methods and approaches

Assessment by the (guest) coaches (either from ArtEZ or from the other institutions)

General criteria: creativity, collaboration!

The student has completed this module if being awarded a "Voldoende"/Pass at the end of the second semester.

Written assessment by the instructor at the end of both work-weeks. Assessment after the end of the first work-week is formative and expressed in terms of satisfactory/unsatisfactory. It indicates a student's progress in this module. No ECs are awarded and there is no resit. Modules can only be absolved, and ECs awarded, after the end of second work-week. The end-of-course assessments comprise evaluations of students' overall participation.

See the Education and Assessment Plan.