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7th Nida Doctoral School:
Doctoral Candidates as Future Educators: Peer-to-Peer Exchange
22–26 August
Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts
E. A. Jonušo str. 3
LT-93127 Nida
Lithuania
In 2022, Nida Doctoral School (NDS) is focusing on the role of PhD candidates as future educators. In many cases, PhD candidates occupy an ambiguous in-between role: they are both students and present/future educators. Therefore, the school this year is structured in a way that reflects on this duality with a programme based on peer-to-peer exchange. As ‘soon-to-become-professors,’ PhD candidates participate in the course in their double roles, as both senders and receivers of information, forming an autopoietic and/or self-sufficient system in the realm of education.
Peer learning constitutes one of the most important parts of the learning process in general. In NDS’s previous iterations peer-to-peer exchange proved to be the most relevant and valuable component of the course. Horizontal communication and exchange creates a safe(r) space for being together, opening up, sharing and testing methodologies and practices at stake in one’s ongoing work.
The goal of most doctoral programmes is to facilitate ‘future tutors’ with experience and an understanding of what it means to work with diverse communities in various kinds of contexts in both formal and informal education systems. As a site for voicing ideas and experimenting with various educational models, NDS 2022 focuses on discussions around radical and alternative pedagogies as well as other types of exchange to help doctoral candidates get informed about the future progression of academies and other educational institutions.
In 2022, the group work between PhD candidates forms the content programme of the school based on the multitude of their experiences and research fields. They exercise individual tutoring, practising listening and giving feedback to each other. Individual tutoring sessions are also supported by three tutors from partnering institutions: Ines Weizman, Mika Elo, and Vytautas Michelkevičius.
Partners
In 2022 NDS is joined and co-funded by nine partnering PhD in Practice programmes:
Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre
The Royal College of Art
Stockholm University of the Arts
Trondheim Academy of Fine Art (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
University of the Arts Helsinki
University of the Arts London
Zurich University of the Arts
Vilnius Academy of Arts
Participants
Aistė Ambrazevičiūtė – Vilnius Academy of Arts
Miki Ambrozy – Vilnius Academy of Arts
Eliane Bertschi – Zurich University of the Arts
Frank Brümmel – University of the Arts Helsinki
Prerna Bishnoi – Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Savas Boyraz – Stockholm University of the Arts
Jan Glöckner – Vilnius Academy of Arts
Greta Grinevičiūtė – Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre
Marc Johnson – Stockholm University of the Arts
Tõnis Jürgens – Estonian Academy of Arts
Tuomas A. Laitinen – University of the Arts Helsinki
Yana Mikhalina – Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Ignas Pavliukevičius – Vilnius Academy of Arts
Mari Sanden – Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Philipp Sattler – Royal College of Art, London
Lucie Tuma – Zurich University of the Arts
Joen Vedel – Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Jenny Warren – University of the Arts London
Haiqi Yang – University of the Arts London