A wide range of insights into leading institutions in the fields of higher education, the arts, and culture reflect the project’s interdisciplinary approach. To do justice to this approach, Cultural Collisions offers a broad spectrum of diverse events. Through workshops and exhibitions, students learn about climate change, its challenges, and creative solutions; in professional development sessions for teachers, we collaborate with the University of Teacher Education Vienna (PH Wien) and the University of Teacher Education Vienna/Lower Austria (KPH Wien/Niederösterreich) to support their work in the classroom. We recognize this high level of commitment by awarding the title of “Cultural Collisions Partner School”! In addition, we offer support in presenting the project and its results at school events (open houses, etc.).

 

Students also receive their own certificate for their participation and for their in-depth engagement with the topics of climate change and technology at the intersection of art and science.

The special thing about this project for us is the linking of science and art. The workshops and exhibitions ideally accompany the design process of transforming theoretical knowledge about climate change into a multimedia work of art. The pupils benefit not only in terms of content. They go through a development process as individuals and as a class. Through the final exhibition, they also experience special public appreciation for what they have done and their results.

Ulrike Schedl-Schrottmayer & Klemens Frick

BG/BRG Pichelmayergasse

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