UMSONST UND DRAUSSEN / FOR FREE & OUTSIDE
Regine Bruhn, Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design, Germany 
Break out Session 2: Thursday 24 November 16:30 - 17:30 (Helsinki Time)

Struggling to implement a ceramics walk though Berlin in a pandemic, students had to resort to virtual walks to identify and document significant objects, later transferring their knowledge from their research into the three-dimensional objects by recreating miniatures of the works. The miniatures not only created a third, tangible dimension, but also a new pictorial reality. The project FOR FREE & OUTSIDE materialises the working conditions under COVID-19, the artist’s respective perspective, and the constant possibility of imagination. The students had to find a completely new way of working together: everyone on their own, together as a project group, together with the professor, in consultation with the participating designers, and in cooperation with the Furnace and Ceramics Museum. A special result emerged from the extensive efforts of this extraordinary project—a unique artwork by several artists.

Reflection, presence, and idleness in arts pedagogy
Heli Kauppila + Marika Orenius + Katja Thomson, University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland 
Break out Session 4: Friday 25 November 11:30 - 12:30 (Helsinki Time)

During this interactive session, participants will explore the many facets of reflection as part of teaching and learning in the arts. The session examines, restructures, and suggests different notions of reflection as a phase in a learning process. Participants are invited to explore different questions: How can reflection help us attune to each other and to our surroundings and form connections in the moment? How do we form relationships with the space and relationships with each other in that space? This session scrutinises the experiences and reflections on different modes of being. It is an invitation to participate and engage with the pedagogical dimensions that remain or move underneath the surface.