simon,
> Secondly, I fear that if you choose to wait for our education system
> to move away from commercialisation and intrumentalisation then you
> could be twiddling your thumbs for a very long time indeed.
There is no need to wait, just to tackle it from different directions at
the same time, short term (to continue collaborations and programs) and
long term approaches (education).
Here in Finland next January will open the new Aalto University, which
was created through the merger of Helsinki School of Economics,
University of Art and Design Helsinki and Helsinki University of
Technology. http://www.aaltoyliopisto.info/en/
It will be interesting for us to follow what role art will play in this
constellation and what kind of transformations are allowed to happen.
The merger is of course economically motivated as Finland's strategy to
reinvent itself through education once already succeeded.
best
erich
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