Symposium: EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIP NEW

AI – ART and INFORMATICS

We are rethinking education and museums with art, programming and creative learning!

• How can innovative and contemporary education be successful?
• Why is a museum of modern and contemporary art an ideal partner for education?
• How is the museum institution changing now and in the future?

Including the launch of our best-practice publication on programming for teaching!

In its collection and education department, mumok combines two of the museum's essential core tasks under one strategy and in one strong team: research and education now go hand in hand. The museum is becoming a bridge builder to a digitalised future. 

Our symposium focuses on the core areas of our work in the Creative Learning area: holistic education and digital empowerment. The occasion of the symposium is the presentation of the results of our community project muco – mumok community project, which was made possible by funding from the Digifonds – Digitisation Fund Work 4.0 of the Vienna Chamber of Labour. For three semesters we visited numerous school classes with our creative programming courses. We programmed a lot and learned even more.

We would like to share our experiences and findings at the symposium. On this day, we will also launch our publication with best practice examples of coding for curriculum design, demonstrate through interactive coding workshops how we combine STEM subjects with arts and culture, and how this can be used to innovate school curriculum in digital literacy and across all subjects. We also show how all of this contributes to digital empowerment, digital literacy and social inclusion, preparing today's young people for tomorrow's world of work. And we explain how our Creative Learning approach works, why a museum of modern and contemporary art is an ideal partner for education, and how this is changing the institution of the museum now and in the future.

Our polyphonic collection is the ideal playground for discovering the knowledge of the world. Together with computer programming as a creative expression and logical language, we build bridges to various disciplines. 

We combine insights from across the sciences with modern technologies and creative learning to build our visitors' individual knowledge networks. We explore the digital world as a positive creative space, awaken curiosity and creativity, show what programming and art have in common and why learning is so damn cool.

Schedule: Including transdisciplinary best practice examples, teaching materials, interactive hybrid programming workshops, talks, publication showcase and much more. 
The detailed schedule will be published at the end of August.

When: Friday, 20 September 2024, 9am to 6pm
Where: mumok — Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna, Hofstallungen
For whom: The symposium is aimed at everyone who is interested in education and wants to help shape the museum of the future. We invite educators, those interested in education from schools, NGOs, associations, NPOs, politics, art and culture, as well as art, culture and knowledge mediators and museum professionals.
Language: The symposium will be held in German.
Participation is free of charge, please register down below on this site.
If you have any questions, please contact creative-learning@mumok.at

We look forward to your participation!

By participating, you give us permission to publish images and sound recordings (photo, video and audio) made during the event.

Please note

The Symposium Ludwig goes digital! will take place on 7 October, focusing on Citizen Humanities and digital participatory collections research. As part of the Ludwig goes digital! project, funded by the Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation, we will be working with the young participants of our Creative Learning Coding courses on museum collecting practice, artworks and artists, based on the principles of Citizen Humanities.

Find out more here.