This events was the first public lecture and the launch of the project and website. FAST45 is a pan-European research project which aims to create and test new methodologies, envisage future scenarios, establish long-term international collaboration and develop tools and initiatives which will empower arts institutions not only to anticipate an unknown future but to actively shape it.

Involving arts educators, researchers, students, and business professionals working across artistic disciplines and leaping sectoral boundaries, FAST45 seeks to analyse, map, and predict the arts education landscape for 2045.

The FAST45 partners were introduced and shared with the participants what the future could hold.

We joined Prof. Daniel Weinbren, an Open University Fellow and writer of the history of OU, to hear how the UK-based Open University, with its objective to ‘promote the educational well-being of the community generally’ challenged the pre-Second World War status quo by providing open-access education to part-time adult learners.  Participants discovered how the OU modelled how a central state could seek to direct technological, educational, cultural and economic developments and normalise a quasi-market within the university sector.

This online lecture (followed by a Q&A) was hosted on the FAST45 Learning Platform. 

Running order

12.00 - 12.30 CET: Launch of the FAST45 project and website

12.30 – 14:00 CET: FAST45 Learning Platform Public Lecture: Open to people, places, methods, and ideas?
   Presented by Dr. Daniel Weinbren (The Open University)
   Moderated by Glenn Loughran

   Closing remarks

Project Partners