The world in 2045 will be a different place. Although we cannot predict the future, we can shape it. Futures studies have developed methodologies to create futures images and scenarios. The potential for creativity and imagination at art schools, together with the urge for innovation in society at large brought together key players from Higher Arts Education and business in a Knowledge Alliance FAST 45 – Futures Art School Trends 2045. They are geared up to imagine a desirable future in which the participation, education and research in the arts play an integral part in a world that will have been radically reshaped by the 4th Industrial Revolution, globalisation and climate change. FAST45 collects knowledge, creates and tests methods and broadly implements them in Art School Futures Labs in which educators, researchers and employers will co-create futures scenarios and operationalise them in policy papers, long term collaborations and tools that will empower institutions and enterprises to not only better anticipate an unknown future, but actively shape it.By working across sectoral boundaries and by envisioning futures scenarios for 2045, FAST45 will (a) explore and inventory already existing research that substantiate ideas of possible, probable, or preferable futures for higher art education and the employment of artists, (b) organise Art School Futures Labs that enhance futures thinking and imagining alternative futures inside (students, lecturers, administrative staff and heads of departments) and outside (external public and private partners) institutes, (c) deliver four futures scenarios that highlight the discontinuities from the present and reveal the potential choices and their potential consequences that IHAE need to prepare for their longer-term future planning and decision-making, and (d) organise a general discussion / debate on possible policy and decision actions that informs and facilitates transformative leadership for strategic steps forward.
FAST45 explored and inventoried existing research, ideas, and visions for future images for HAEI. FAST45 organised Arts School Futures Labs to enhance futures thinking and imagining alternative futures for HAEI. FAST45 determined futures images and scenarios. FAST45 organised a general discussion/debate on possible policy and decision actions that inform and facilitate transformative leadership for strategic steps forward.
The FAST45 consortium (an alliance between six institutions of higher arts education, three businesses, and two higher arts education European network organisations) jointly developed (educational) concepts, design strategies, and work processes from a futures perspective (HAEIs in 2045).
<< Background >> The FAST45 consortium (an alliance between six institutions of higher arts education, three businesses, and two higher arts education European network organisations) jointly developed (educational) concepts, design strategies, and work processes from a futures perspective (HAEIs in 2045). << Objectives >> FAST45 explored and inventoried existing research, ideas, and visions for future images for HAEI. FAST45 organised Arts School Futures Labs to enhance futures thinking and imagining alternative futures for HAEI. FAST45 determined futures images and scenarios. FAST45 organised a general discussion/debate on possible policy and decision actions that inform and facilitate transformative leadership for strategic steps forward. << Implementation >> The FAST45 consortium developed and implemented a coherent and comprehensive set of interconnected activities boosting innovation in higher arts education, business and the broader socio-economic environment. Particularly, the flow and exchange of knowledge between higher education institutions and enterprises to jointly develop solutions for challenging issues was central to the project. << Results >> FAST45 Data map and online learning platform / Arts School Futures Labs Guidelines / The future of higher arts education Shaping a Trajectory (see for all results: (see https://learningplatform.fast45.eu)