Cultural Sustainability and Arts Education

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   • Benjamin Jörissen, Lisa Unterberg, Tanja Klepacki

   Pages 1-9

3. Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) and Aesthetic Practices under Conditions of Cultural Transformation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Challenge to Aesthetic and Cultural Education

      • Christoph Wulf

      Pages 13-28

   3. The Transformation of the Popular Song as a Tool for Arts Education and Cultural Sustainability

      • Emily Achieng’ Akuno

      Pages 29-38

   4. Culture and Sustainability in Situations of Conflict; Artistic Practices in West Africa

      • Raimund Vogels, Meike Lettau, Eyram Fiagbedzi, Naomi Andrew Haruna

      Pages 39-51

   5. Transformation of Traditional Art Forms in the Evolving Contexts: Cantonese Opera in Hong Kong as an Example

      • Bo-Wah Leung

      Pages 53-63

   6. Let’s Chat

      • Chor Leng Twardzik Ching

      Pages 65-76

4. Arts and Cultural Education in Times of Neoliberalism, (Post-)Migration and Post-Coloniality

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77

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   2. Making Creative and Entrepreneurial Selves in Education: The Governing of Life in Contemporary Time

      • Catarina S. Martins

      Pages 79-95

   3. The Influence of Neoliberalism on Arts Education: “Creativity” and “Critical Thinking” as Semantics of an Educational Discourse

      • Matthias Damerow

      Pages 97-103

   4. Arts Education and Decolonization: Challenges and Opportunities for Cultural Sustainability in the Context of Migration

      • Camila Andrea Malig Jedlicki

      Pages 105-113

   5. Transcultural Aesthetic Practices in the Classroom: Sounds, Spaces, Bodies

      • Elise v. Bernstorff, Carla J. Maier

      Pages 115-126

   6. Storying [Post-]Qualitative Inquiries, Methods and Pedagogies in|for|as Arts-Based Educational Research

      • Kathryn S. Coleman

      Pages 127-141

5. Arts and Cultural Education Under Conditions of Digital Transformation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143

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   2. Arts and Recent Technology, Exploring Responses in Times of Change

      • Yu Jin Hong

      Pages 145-154

   3. Critical Incidents as a Participatory Research Approach for Transformative Cultural Practices

      • Christoph Richter, Heidrun Allert

      Pages 155-167

   4. Museums and Other Users in Digital Space: Pioneers, Produser and Partners in Dialogue

      • Claudia Roßkopf

      Pages 169-178

   5. The Transformation of Museum Exhibitions in the Era of Digital Objects

      • Leopold Klepacki, Martha Karoline Schröder

      Pages 179-188

6. Field Trips—Experiencing Cultural Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189

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This book is based on the topics, questions and results of the international conference "Aesthetics of Transformation - Arts Education Research and the Challenge of Cultural Sustainability". It aims to foster and sharpen the understanding of the potential role of arts education and arts education research for cultural sustainability. In an ever more complex and interconnected world, culture is a valuable resource for sustainable development. Based on the thesis that the change towards sustainability has to be a change that starts with cultural practices of perception and knowledge, this book makes an important contribution to the broad discourse on cultural sustainability, which has begun to emerge in recent years.


In this context, the volume first deals with Intangible Cultural Heritage and how aesthetic practices and certain forms of art are changing through cultural transformation processes. Subsequently, it focuses on issues such as arts and cultural education in times of neoliberalism, (post-)migration and post-coloniality as well as on arts and cultural education under conditions of digital transformation. These theoretical and empirical contributions are complemented by insights into field trips to institutions and exemplary places of practice, showing different representations of educational art practices, cultural heritage, and cultural sustainability. Against this background the book finally offers responses and commentaries that can form the starting point for a far reaching interactive dialogical process on the utmost importance of cultural, aesthetic and arts education as part of a global endeavor for sustainable development.

• arts education research
• cultural sustainability
• cultural diversity
• cultural transformation
• digitalization in arts education
• aesthetic and cultural practices
• cultural dynamics
• arts education policy and governance
• UNITWIN research and education

• Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

  Benjamin Jörissen, Tanja Klepacki

• IU University of Applied Sciences, Stuttgart, Germany

  Lisa Unterberg

Prof. Dr. Benjamin Jörissen is a Full Professor of Education with a focus on Culture and Aesthetics and Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair in Arts and Culture in Education at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany). The Chair’s research aims to contribute to an understanding of the role of cultural, aesthetic, and arts education in a transforming and diverse world. Fields of work include the development of an educational aesthetic and media theory, empirical research in postdigital culture including several research projects on digitalization in arts education, as well as UNESCO-related and postcolonial perspectives. Jörissen, amongst others, is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, member of the UNESCO UNITWIN Network Arts Education Research for Cultural Diversity and Sustainable Development, as well as a member of the German Council for Arts and Cultural Education (Rat für Kulturelle Bildung).


Prof. Dr. Lisa Unterberg is professor for social work at IU University of Applied Sciences in Stuttgart (Germany). Until 2020, she worked as a post-doc researcher at the Chair of Education with a focus on Culture and Aesthetics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and associated with the UNESCO UNITWIN network. She was the co-organizer of the international UNITWIN conference “Aesthetics of Transformation”, held in Nuremberg in 2018.


Dr. Tanja Klepacki is the senior researcher at the UNESCO Chair in Arts and Culture in Education at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany). Amongst others, she serves as executive manager of the Chair’s Academy in Nuremberg. Her fields of work include theoretical and empirical studies in the fields of cultural, aesthetic and arts education as well as in the realm of cultural sustainability and cultural transformations.

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