What makes our school special
As an integrated comprehensive school, diversity is part of what we do on a daily basis; it supports the school’s concept and shapes our everyday life at school. Diversity and heterogeneity are central to how we are together in school. Being aware of this and always viewing it positively are imperative for the school’s success.
“The flying artist’s room offers an extra opportunity for us as an integrated comprehensive school – specifically it places the focus on cultural education for the school community and integrates it more into our life at school.
We’re looking forward to the opportunity to create new and different ways of accessing learning not just in the subjects of music and art, but to think about and address aesthetic access in lots of other subjects.”
Comment from the staffroom
Why we wanted a flying artist’s room on our playground
… because we’re looking forward to the potential offered by the flying artist’s work and the space
… because we keep observing how much the individual encouragement and development of students can successfully and effectively be boosted by and through aesthetic action
… because this haven, the flying artist’s room, offers our students the opportunity to test themselves far away from grades and the pressure to perform, have new experiences and develop
… because the diversity of art and aesthetic action can be experienced here
… because our attitude to art, our understanding of art and our own effectiveness in it is an experience that is often embedded in non-school places, e. g. in museums and museum pedagogy. With the flying artist’s room we have our own non-school place of learning on our school premises!
… because an artist’s experience and supplementing teachers’ educational and professional perspectives with an artistic perspective can be a real asset for the school and school community.
… because artistic action expands our horizons and can make a contribution to every subject.
Our hopes, expectations and wishes
- Reinforcement of our school identity!
- Effective and successful interaction between the artist and the school community.
- As many people as possible should be included and want to participate.
- A hustle and bustle with lots of people visiting the flying artist’s room, but also experienced outside the school, allowing everyone to take part.
- Unlocking of students’ potential.
–> Hopefully the flying artist’s room will be another step on our way to becoming a cultural school!
Why the flying artist had to be a visual artist
Visual art is embedded the most in popular understanding and is a good place for those involved to start.
In the selected artist we have someone who continuously tests herself and also gets to grips with different areas outside the conventional concept of visual art. It may provide an opportunity for our students to do the same.
Our first impression of the mobile building
The mobile live-in studio is ostensibly a simply designed building that through its simplicity offers a space for us to develop our own ideas. Technically and structurally, the space fulfils all accessible opportunities without them dominating. It’s an aesthetically appealing construct that is a model of technical professionalism. On top of that, it has the wonderful smell of wood!
Joys and challenges
- The compatibility between the school and how it is organised and structured on the one hand and the new creative possibilities, opportunities and situations on the other. How can both be seen as equally valid? How can a fruitful dialogue emerge out of this?
- Engaging with the offers that emerge in this space
- Striving to get as many students and teachers involved and integrated as possible.
How will we probably feel when the flying artist’s room moves on after two years?
ARS’s biggest wish and stated objective is that what happens is not tied to the exceptional circumstances of having a flying artist’s room per se, but that its existence and the work that takes place in it and with it endure even after the flying artist’s room has moved on.
We want projects that are started and are then developed, experienced and worked on.
We want the flying artist’s room to have an influence on us that continues to make itself felt and changes.
We want the flying artist’s room to offer a kind of initial impetus for the continued development of cultural education.