EDUCATION


Vision Forum branched off from the organisation Curatorial Mutiny. The organisation was created in dialogue with KSM at Linköpings universitet. Since its inception in 2008, Vision Forum has focused on international education, production and research in contemporary visual art along with heavy focus on interdisciplinary exchanges with other artistic fields as well as researchers in science and the humanities. Until 2016 we focused a lot on higher education. But in recent times, more attention has been given to develop new pedagogical strategies. These are carried out within our ongoing project Morgondagens Konstpublik and Riding the donkey backwards.

Methodology

In Vision Forum we develop ways of working existing methods in education and bring them up to date using slight shifts in working methods by focusing on process. We have four steps that we work through:

* In order to achieve what we set out to accomplish we need to formulate the problematic well.
* We need to understand what context this problematic is inscribed in and where we want to see changes take place.
* To formulate how a balance can be reached with the individual, groups or institutions where we want to see these changes take place.
* Develop a strategy for how this mutual process can be achieved.
These four steps can be implemented in any order and in many different ways depending on the problematic addressed.
Context
The collaboration between KSM and Vision Forum allows knowledge, experience and new ideas to meet within artistic and academic creativity to enrich the academic and cultural life of the region of Östergötland. The collaboration brings together students, researchers, producers and influential personalities from the arts, humanities and sciences to dialogue about central life issues.
The participants of the project come from all over Europe, often with roots from other continents, and also host a broad age range and a balanced gender mix. The exchange safeguards academic and cultural diversity in the region and inspires students, researchers and staff to find, enrich and develop their creative and academic processes. The collaborations operate on three levels:

I. Local: To bring knowledge, experience and inspiration and new ideas from all over Europe and further afield to dialogue with and to enrich the unique context of the cultural, institutional and academic world of Norrköping, Linköping and the region of Östergötland.

II. National: To bring knowledge, experience and inspiration and new ideas from all over Europe and further afield to dialogue with and to enrich the cultural and academic worlds in Sweden. To enforce a dialogue with the academic, institutional and cultural world in the rest of Sweden with Norrköping, Linköping and the region of Östergötland.

III. International: To create a platform for international expansion for the academic, institutional and artistic world of Norrköping, Linköping and the region of Östergötland and to use this expansion to enrich the professional processes for academics and cultural practitioners in the region.

To work on these three levels allow the students and researchers to develop their personal practice based on their individual needs, visions and ambitions. But it also allows them to create a platform where they can actively choose to work locally, nationally and internationally. The platform gives them the tools, the network and skills to expand and through that allow the cultural and academic life in the region to expand with them.

Thematic Fields
The collaboration between KSM and Vision Forum focuses on three main fields. Within each field the students and researchers work with meetings, research and production preferably in parallel. The three fields also open doors for work across the fields and students and researchers often work with projects that either is placed between these thematic fields and/or between accepted artistic genres.

The three thematic fields are currently:

I. 
Performance: Vision Forum has focused on performance from the outset. The practical approach to academic research that has been a trademark of KSM from the start makes it very easy to collaborate in this field and the two organizations have been working together in this genre since 2004.
II. Art and Science
: The collaboration offers artistic production and research to meet scientific and humanist research.
III. Experimental film: Film is and has always been a strong point for KSM, but the creators have had a hard time reaching outside the local. Vision Forum offers the venues for presentation and expansion. This field also works for an expanded local production of experimental film.