| Previous EDI Platform Events |
Previous EDI Platform Events
ELIA x CAN Webinar: Strengthening Arts in Global Education10 October 2025 Organised by ELIA and Community Arts Network, this webinar charted a roadmap for addressing challenges and strengthening arts education. Together with the Arts Education for All and Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Working Groups, a discussion was held on ways to enhance the inclusivity and accessibility of the arts for all ages while promoting cross-generational learning. Read More
Contextualising "skill" in arts education within an EDI framework22 September 2025 During Creative Skills Week 2025, the EDI Community Hub hosted an online session that investigated entrenched power dynamics between pedagogue and student, exploring how canons in the cultural and creative sectors influence that relationship. The session questioned how we define artistic skill and transmit knowledge. Read More
EDI Online Session: Decolonising the art schoolThursday 13 June 2024 ELIA’s Equity, Diversity & Inclusivity (EDI) Working Group invited the ELIA community to the fourth EDI Online Session: Decolonising the art school, which took place on Thursday, 13 June, from 13:00 - 15:00 (CEST) on Zoom. This session was developed under the topic of ‘Decolonising the art school’ building upon the discussions held in previous sessions and focusing on hidden assumptions and histories from an intersectional perspective. Together, we explored the need to decolonise, and what that means? Are the universities and the arts institutions colonial and embedded in coloniality, and in what ways is this reflected? What is the role of modernity in colonial endeavour and present coloniality? Read More
EDI Platform Meeting 202415-16 April 2024 The first in-person meeting of the EDI Platform took place from 15-16 April 2024 in Nida, Lithuania. This event was kindly hosted by Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts. Read More
EDI Online Session: Teaching in Different Gears25 January 2024 ELIA’s Equity, Diversity & Inclusivity (EDI) Working Group invited the community to the third EDI online session: Teaching in Different Gears,
which took place on Thursday 25 January, from 13:00 - 15:00 (CET) on Zoom.
EDI Online Session: Inclusive Curricula7 September 2023 ELIA’s Equity, Diversity & Inclusivity (EDI) Platform invited participants to their second online session, focusing on Inclusive Curricula, which took place on Thursday 7 September, from 13:00 - 15:00 (CEST) on Zoom. This interactive session provided an opportunity for participants to exchange valuable insights and examples of inclusive curricula. How have you accommodated students with diverse learning needs, styles and ability levels? How have you made your curricula meaning, relevant and accessible to all? What has worked and what hasn’t? Participants will also have the chance to listen to experiences and case studies from other ELIA member institutions. All ELIA members were welcome to join and participate! Read More
EDI Online Session: Opening Spaces for EDITuesday 25 April 2023
ELIA’s Equity, Diversity & Inclusivity (EDI) Platform invited the ELIA Community to the first in a series of online sessions on Tuesday 25 April at 13:00 – 15:00 CEST. Each session will be led by two members of the EDI Working Group on Zoom. The first session will be led by Cecilia Roos from Stockholm University of the Arts and Ali Şahin from Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. Please note that registration for this event series is open to ELIA members and is free of charge. Read More |
