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Future Forward:
Mit Public Art in die Zukunft

Future Forward: Mit Public Art in die Zukunft is an educational public art initiative with the aim of providing students at middle schools across the state of Bavaria, Germany with an opportunity to gain and practice critical competencies needed to thrive in our world. Future Forward serves as a potent, creativity-based learning environment capable of imparting transformative competencies, meaning the skills and habits of mind, needed to navigate and shape our uncertain and rapidly shifting social, environmental, political and economic ecosystem.

Future Forward affords interactive collaborations between youth and japanese artist, Hiroyasu Tsuri, to create public facing art experiences that enable participants to tangibly enage with global community through digital and analog art making. Our learning interventions are designed to equip young learners with skills and experiences addressing global challenges, while offering an assets-focused premise to exercise autonomous action and real time problem solving.

Future Forward, mixed media, 2021/2022 – Artist Hiroyasu Tsuri virtually created collaborative, multimedia artwork with Middle School students in Bavaria, Germany through analog and digital artmaking techniques. Video artwork was presented in participating towns across the state, including at the Museum of Bavarian History in Regensburg and at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in Eichstätt.

Future Forward’s multi-faceted, interdisciplinary learning framework enhances young learners’ processes and tools for life beyond school, while supporting a better understanding of themselves, their peers and community. Due to its large-scale and public-facing nature, Future Forward initiatives are inherently civic and offer an outlet for civic voice. To strengthen civic inquiry and engagement throughout interventions, Future Forward employs the Art as Civic Commons learning framework developed by researchers at Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Project Zero to further investigate civic themes and avenues of action.

Future Forward is sponsored by the Cultural Fund for Education, the Ministry of Culture and Education of Bavaria and the Region of Upper Bavaria. In partnership with the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and Professor Rainer Wenrich, Chair of Arts Education and Art Didactics, Future Forward is accompanied by a scientific research study to investigate learning outcomes and efficacy of interventions.

Experience more Future Forward through a documentary short by Japanese filmmaker Naoto Sakamoto here and a Picture of Practice of the Project Zero Thinking Routine SEE/THINK/ME/WE featuring the Art As Civic Commons framework here.

Middle school students across Bavaria virtually collaborate with artist Hiroyasu Tsuri, utilizing analog and digital artmaking techniques, to achieve co-created work of public art.

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