During the fourth Future Day, UdK2030 is hosting two panel discussions. The invited participants from inside and outside the university have agreed on a specific topic to be discussed under the conditions of equality, openness and diversity. After the first 7-minute statements of each participant, the topic will be opened for debate on common ground.
Introduction by moderator - 10-15 minutes
The discussion on Panel 2 covers the representation of diversity in relation to academics and media. The conversation will be held by different representatives of these topics, some of whom have experience with migration and displacement. The main aim is to develop new strategies to sustain academics and media with a more diverse, democratic and less hierarchical approach.
The panel will be opened with a video by Silent University, which aims to address and reactivate the knowledge of the participants and to make the exchange process mutually beneficial. Two representatives of Off-University, Hazal Gümüş and Nagehan Tokdoğan, will present their vision on different educational systems and the notion of knowledge threatened by anti-democratic and authoritarian regimes. Jörg Heiser will share his experience as Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the UdK - how anti-discrimination policies in the place of work and education need solid, reliable juridically sound structures for appeal. María Inés Plaza Lazo will talk about their multilingual and unconventional methods of multilingual journalism at The Arts of The Working Class newspaper. Finally, Ulaş Aktaş, a new member of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the UdK Berlin, will explore hegemonic and power-critical theories of art and education under postcolonial conditions, and governmental cultures of the digital.
Closing the diversity, equality and inclusion gap is obviously an uphill climb, but it can be tackled through connectedness, emotional literacy and empathy.
Participants of Table 2: Hazal Gümüş (Off-university), Jörg Heiser (UdK Berlin), Maria Ines Plaza Lazo (The Arts of Working Class), Nagehan Tokdoğan (Off-university), Ulaş Aktaş (UdK Berlin).
Moderator of the table: Vincent Hulme (Common Ground)
Vincent Hulme has been studying Fine Arts at the UdK Berlin since 2017. He left Canada and arrived in Berlin in 2011. Joining the Common Ground Team in 2018 and is currently spearheading the Common Ground Studio in its 2nd year.
Jörg Heiser is an art critic, teacher, curator, and musician. At UdK, he is the Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts, and the Director of the Institute for Art in Context.
Hazal Gümüs Yigit studied Urban and Regional Planning at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul, Currently, she is a master student in the Environmental Planning Program at the Technical University of Berlin.
María Inés Plaza Lazo was born and raised in Guayaquil, projected her own nomadic future at an early stage. She is currently a Media Fellow at The New Institute in Hamburg, where she engages in the development of inclusion and accessibility formats.
Nagehans academic interests include sociology of emotions, politics of emotions, nationalism and gender studies, masculinity studies, human rights, and ethnography. Her articles on these fields have been published in various journals and books.
Ulaş Aktaş ist Professor für Grundschule, Ästhetisch-Musische Erziehung und Kunstdidaktik an der Universität der Künste Berlin.