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Research topic / Brief description
In Saxony, too, rural areas have long been shaped by social transformations that bring about far-reaching changes in the everyday and working lives of residents and can be accompanied by ruptures, upheavals and manifestations of alienation. Building on this, the KUBILARI collaborative project explores the potential of cultural education to respond to such developments, to address the specific processes of change in peripheral rural regions, and to generate new representations of rural life. The project explores how cultural education, with the aid of artistic and aesthetic means and methods, can make local or regional issues tangible, enable them to be addressed collectively, and thereby strengthen experiences of self-efficacy.
In this context, Sub-project I ā situated at the intersection of spatial sociology, art history and social pedagogy ā focuses on the impact of cultural adult education on the construction of regional identities and on coping with upheavals through artistic forms of engaging with reality. Following thorough conceptual and theoretical groundwork, approximately eight rural educational settings from the fields of sociocultural work, adult education centres and art associations/galleries will be empirically explored through surveys, group discussions and participant observation, as well as through the analysis of objects and documents, with a focus on various artistic and media-based formats ranging from performing arts through to the visual arts and crafts. In parallel, the findings obtained in this way will be contrasted with socio-economic and demographic contextual data.
In parallel, Sub-project II at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences uses expert interviews and thematic cycle analyses to investigate, on the one hand, how the communication practices of the Saxon municipality of Neusalza-Spremberg have changed with regard to the local potential for cultural education, and, secondly, how the supra-regional print media report on rural areas in general and the significance of cultural education in particular.
The KUBILARI collaborative project operates in an interdisciplinary, dialogic and networked manner. A key focus lies on engaging with practitioners in the field of cultural education and exchanging views with representatives from politics, business, culture and the arts, as well as on the public dissemination of research findings. In this way, too, the two sub-projects aim to help explore avenues for the future development, organisation and promotion of cultural education, to strengthen this sector as an essential component of rural infrastructure, and thereby to increase opportunities for individual and collective participation.
Conference proceedings, Chemnitz, 20 September 2022
Note: The printed version of the documentation can be obtained from Prof. Dr Stephan Beetz
Publications
Beetz, Stephan/Jacob, Ulf (2022): Cultural Education and Regional Identity in the Context of Transformation Processes. Theoretical and Conceptual Approaches, along with an Outlook on the Empirical Field. In: Kolleck, Nina/BĆ¼del, Martin/Nolting, Jenny (eds.): Research on Cultural Education in Rural Areas. Methods, Theories and Initial Findings. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa, pp. 246ā262.
Beetz, Stephan/Jacob, Ulf (2022): Regional Identity and Cultural Education. Giving Voice to the Transformation of Rural Societies, in: Kulturpolitische Mitteilungen, No. 179, Issue IV, pp. 45ā47.
Beetz, Stephan/Jacob, Ulf (2023): Art, Culture and Rural Areas in Saxony. The Contribution of Cultural Education to Social Change. Proceedings of a conference held at the Kraftwerk Chemnitz, 22 September 2022. Organised as part of the BMBF-funded research project āCultural Education and Rural Developmentā (KUBILARI) in collaboration with Mittweida University of Applied Sciences and the Berlin University of Applied Sciences (HTW). Mittweida: Self-published (print/web).
Jacob, Ulf (2022): In the Snowstorm of Memory. Some Thoughts on Jƶrg Seifertās āImages of a Lifeā. In: Kunstkeller Annaberg e.V. (ed.): Jƶrg Seifert. Images of a Life. Collages from family photographs. With texts by Holger Wendland, Michael Barthel and Ulf Jacob. Annaberg-Buchholz.
Kolleck, Nina/Fischer, Luise (eds.) (forthcoming): Cultural Education in Rural Areas: Transfer, Co-construction and Interaction between Academia and Practice. Leverkusen-Opladen: Barbara Budrich Publishers.
Including the KUBILARI-I contributions:
- Beetz, Stephan/Jacob, Ulf: The Role of Cultural Education in Engaging with Rural Areas.
- Gaede, Andrea/KarnstƤdt, Kirsten/Helbig, Robert: Social Transformation Meets Cultural Education ā Synergies and Conditions for Success. A joint contribution by the Saxon Adult Education Association and the Saxony State Association for Sociocultural Affairs.
- Herzog, Anja: Artistic Creation & Cultural Education in Bischofswerda.
- Klemm, Ulrich: Paradoxes and the inhospitability of rural areas. An approach from the perspective of cultural education.
- Lienig, Dirk: āA Town Dances: Manifesto!ā, or cultural education in Hoyerswerda that moves people.
- NĆ¼tzsche, Falk/NĆ¼tzsche, Sigrun: Expressionism in Bischofswerda.
- Seifert, Jƶrg: Reflections on the cultural work of Kunstkeller e.V. (In the deepest forest ...).
- Tausch, Jƶrg: My experiences with cultural education in rural areas.
Partners
Berlin University of Applied Sciences, Department of Business Communication (Sub-project II: Cultural Education and the Public Image of Rural Areas)
Practice partners
Saxony State Association for Sociocultural Activities
Saxony Adult Education Centres Association
Project funding
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), funding guidelines on ācultural education in rural areasā
