The approach of higher education in the field of arts has traditionally been compartmentalized which has prevented the HEIs operating in the field to fully express their potential by using transdisciplinary dialogue as a strategic tool for curriculum and programme development. The main goal of this project is to establish international creative collaborative learning approaches with a transdisciplinary approach and with the active participation of students, teachers and practitioners from the different fields of Higher Arts Education. Creative collaborative learning approaches ad-hoc and isolated experiences carried out at local level by some actors have shown promising results in the past but those initiatives have never been structured in a more comprehensive and structured approach with long term objectives and the ambition of changing the whole way of addressing Higher Arts Education. It is clear to both teachers, learners, university management, employers and policy makers that transdisciplinary skills are intrinsic to the labour market in the field of arts and culture as much as in all other fields. Educational programmes should therefore be developed as transdisciplinary Arts settings including skills such as developing concepts, stories, design, performance, dialogue with the community and embed elements of entrepreneurship and employability. The activities will be carried out by three leading institutions from three different European countries with expertise and competencies that complement each other and therefore represent the perfect environment to develop and test the integration of all the art forms and approaches to innovative and comprehensive transdisciplinary study programmes. Participants will be students and teachers from different artistic fields, such as music, theatre, opera, performance art, fine art and design, as well as cultural associations and industries and the audience in general. The main activities carried out by the project will aim at developing new, sustainable but flexible curriculum structures in a transdisciplinary Arts context with the participation of actors from different countries. This will be done by developing the expertise and the pedagogical skills of teachers in the field of art beyond disciplines, changing the mindset from discipline focused to "beyond discipline" and by developing and spreading the transdisciplinary Arts approach and collaborative learning beyond disciplines both in the partner institutions and other HEIs in Europe. All the partners cooperate in realizing goals and objectives structured in three levels: transdisciplinary Arts Module, Studies and Analysis, Learning & Teaching Material. In order to streamline the development of these Intellectual Outputs and activities each partner will coordinate the Intellectual Output in which they excel so to share the workload and ensure quality in the performed activities. The main project result will be to create a stronger focus on connecting artistic expression and approaches from music, theatre and visual arts through the development of new perspectives, methods and skills, by facilitating team work, by preventing fear of failure, by encouraging experimentation and creative mindset and reflective practice, and by contextualizing the work in a broader perspective. These activities and results will in the long run generate a transdisciplinary and transnational debate to enhance curriculum development with the newly created transdisciplinary approaches in creative collaborative learning for all HEIs in the field. This will lead to an enhanced and active dialogue between education, research and the professional field that will generate a positive pattern for all the actors in terms of skills, employability and efficiency of the activities run by the HEIs in the field of arts.
The project BAD aim to: • develop strategies for cross-artistic collaboration • develop methods and tools for collaboration and non-hierarchical structures in an artistic and pedagogical process • explore the artists educational and societal need for innovation and new ways of communicating with an audience In general, different partners have been contributing to the project by the way they represented specific art disciplines. Reykjavik brought the disciplines Music and Drama, Stockholm Performance and Opera and Groningen Music and Visual Arts. Exploring perspectives from these diverse artforms has been pivotal for the development of our transdisciplinary approaches and material. The method of the project has been developed addressing various subjects connected to our collaboration and art making process as well as learning and teaching in a transdisciplinary setting. A practice-based perspective to the creative learning, teaching, and training has been important in the methodology. The BAD project consists of 3 IOs: • A Transdisciplinary Art Module The module presents learning, teaching and training activities which were developed by emerging themes from workshops held during the project. The output gives insight into the development phase and experiments made, present a practical perspective to the creative learning, teaching and training approaches to be used by teachers and students within the transnational field of performing arts, theatre, opera, music, fine art and design, as well as providing theoretical insight into the theme. In an interdisciplinary cross-art setting all participants will through this module expand, improve and enhance their community of practice, professional development and employability. • Studies and Analyses The output includes studies of four artists and two in collectives who all share the quality of having placed an interdisciplinary approach at the center of their work. The result is detailed in the BAD publication and provided lessons and insights, a basis for the module and the learning material. • Learning and Teaching Material The concrete material is a card game and guidance material describing and exploring new pedagogical methods and strategies for transdisciplinary artistic collaboration were developed and discovered and tested during the project. The BAD Game is focusing on how to explore and develop pedagogical methods and strategies for cross-artistic collaboration in performing arts, visual arts, opera, and music, and how to develop methods and tools for collaboration and non-hierarchical structures in an artistic and pedagogical process. The guidelines give a pedagogical frame that reflects on what has been explored and developed during the BAD project and a starting point for new development and approaches to the BAD artwork, beyond arts disciplines. The publication provides detailed descriptions of the game and all the material needed. The overall project management and implementation of project results were secured by the initial planning of 3 IOs and 4 LTT as mentioned in the application. Each IO and LTT had a main responsible institution for the implementation and monitoring. The main project coordinator was overall responsible for ensuring a proper budget control and time management of the project. Methods developed during the BAD project will affect in the coming years tens of educators and hundreds of students at the partner institutions. At regional level approximately 15 external institutions and 20 organizations from the participating countries has in a way or another participated in the project activities. Through the online availability of the results and their presentations at specific conferences, hundreds of professionals from the field have already been inspired by the project activities at European level. The set-up of the project has been shared as an example with colleagues from a number of projects and networks the BAD consortium are involved in. The project has definitively contributed to highlighting crucial aspects of cross-art and modernization of teaching arts in higher arts education. Through the development and testing of innovative content which have led to new joint module within the partner institutions, the learning and new methods - the BAD Game as a concert outcome - tested within the project will be used. The methodology has the potential to be used in many other contexts where collaboration spanning discipline boundaries is of interest. There will be a continuous and deepened collaboration with the partner institutions in the consortium through the joint module within each partner´s ordinary educational program. Future collaboration and Erasmus+ exchanges involving teachers and students from the three partner institutions will take place with the support of the Erasmus+ KA1 programme. The joint module has been introduced into the academic offer of the partners and will be run every academic year.