An Educations for the Future MANIFESTO
Friday 15 and Saturday 16 November from 9.30am till 5pm at Erasmus University College Campus Kanal – Slotstraat/Rue de la Serrure 28, Brussels
Attend for free and make your voice heard at this conference.
Catch a glimpse of a new paradigm for education. SenseSquared’s 2nd international conference introduces teachers, school leaders, artists and policymakers to a different view of education.
The SenseSquared MANIFESTO sheds light on how education may need to transform itself to meet the challenges of the future.
The SenseSquared collective suggests that
- the arts may form the glue that connect diversity with inclusion, inclusion with understanding
- the arts offer a wealth of approaches towards an education based on the way we relate to each other and the world
- the arts may offer the kind of education that our societies need.
Program (subject to change)
Friday 15 November
08.45 — Registration
09.30 — Welcome
by Leen Rosiers, Course Director of the Bachelor of Education — Pre-Primary Education at Erasmus Hogeschool Brussel
09.35 — Introduction
by Hans Van Regenmortel, Project Leader Erasmus+ SenseSquared
09.45-10.45 — Keynote 1
Sensuous Society
by Gry Worre Hallberg, Artistic Director of Sisters Hope (DK)
11.00-12.00 — Contributions by SenseSquared partners
The Beast. Exploring the essence of human communication
by Pak Yan Lau and Hans Van Regenmortel (Musica Impulse Centre)
Interactive performance and interpretation
hEAR DROPS. An online invitation to sensory musical interaction between children and teachers
by Dries Janssen (Musica Impulse Centre)
Workshop
12.10-12.30 — Plenum
Sensory Probes. Essays and exercises for teachers to cultivate artistic attitudes in the classroom
by Anna Harris (Maastricht University)
Book presentation
12.30-13.15 – LUNCH break
13.15-14.15 — Keynote 2
Letting Arts Transform: Making the Case with Eruptive Education Practices
by Pam Burnard, Professor of Arts, Creativities and Educations at University of Cambridge (UK)
14.30-15.30 — Contributions by SenseSquared partners
The Beast. Exploring the essence of human communication
by Hans Van Regenmortel (Musica Impulse Centre)
Interactive workshop and interpretation
The Construction of “We”. Empowering teachers’ music practice
by Kirsten Halle (University of Stavanger) and Nora Bilalovic Kulset (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Lecture and singing together
hEAR DROPS. An online invitation to sensory musical interaction between children and teachers
by Dries Janssen (Musica Impulse Centre)
Workshop
15.30-16.00 — Coffee break
16.00-17.00 — Plenum
Moderated panel discussion
with today’s keynote speakers Gry Worre Hallberg and Pam Burnard
and invited panel guest Johan De Wilde (co-chair at Velov, the professional association of teacher trainers in Flanders; education development & professionalisation officer and teacher trainer at Odisee University of Applied Sciences)
and you, the audience
Moderator: Tobias Frenssen (Head of the Centre of Expertise on Education & Development at UCLL University of Applied Sciences)
17.00 — End
Saturday 16 November
08.45 — Registration
09.30 — Welcome
by Hans Van Regenmortel, project leader Erasmus+ SenseSquared
09.45-10.45 — Keynote 3
Art and Existential Resilience: Three Lessons from the Realm of Aesthetics
by Max Liljefors, Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at Lund University (SE)
11.00-12.00 — Contributions by SenseSquared partners
The Poetic Self Exercise
by Sisters Hope
Workshop
Practical Tools for Nurturing Artistic Attitudes in the Classroom
by Ilse van Lieshout and Dagmar van Wersch (Marres, House for Contemporary Culture)
Workshop
12.10-12.30 — Plenum
Inhabitation — Sisters Hope Home
by Gry Worre Hallberg (Sisters Hope)
Book presentation
Some Notes on SenseSquared’s artwork Matter VIII
by Stefaan Beeckaert, artist
Background on the exhibition during the Manifesto
12.30-13.15 – LUNCH break
13.15-14.15 — Keynote 4
The Future of Education: Pedagogies of the Possible
by Vlad Glaveanu, Professor of Psychology at Dublin City University (IE) — online
14.30-15.30 — Contributions by SenseSquared partners
Zooming One Thousand Birds — Moving towards a Cartography
by Ana Isabel Pereira and Helena Rodrigues (FCSH- Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and Companhia de Música Teatral)
Workshop-lecture
Thoughts on the continuity of life (and education) through music
by Serena Rumello (educator), Jolien Van De Sande (saxophone) and Hans Van Regenmortel (Musica Impulse Centre)
Interactive performance and lecture
15.30-16.00 — Coffee break
16.00-17.00 — Plenum
Moderated panel discussion
with today’s keynote speaker Max Liljefors
and invited panel guests Geert Vandermeersche (Professor of Culture and Arts Education at Vrije Universiteit Brussel) & Arthur Kok (Lecturer in Transforming the Economy at Fontys Tilburg)
and you, the audience
Moderator: Filip Verneert (Postdoctoral Researcher at CESAMM, the Centre for Social Action & Music Making at Ghent University; Director of Muziekmozaïek vzw)
17.00 — End
Between keynote presentations and panel discussions, the SenseSquared partners offer you a taste of the gentle yet irresistible power of the arts. Actively experience how the arts challenge common assumptions about education and open up new perspectives in the process.
Parallel sessions abstracts: contributions by SenseSquared partners
PS – SenseSquared’s First International Conference took place on 26 November 2022 at the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon, and was organised by Companhia de Música Teatral.
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