Supporting Community Development Through Urban Arts Education

The URB_ART project is a response to the COVID19 crisis, which have inhibited intercultural exchange and severely affected the creative education sector. Possible ongoing pandemic constraints and changes will be taken into account by the project by implementing innovative formats of (digital) education, communication, participation, dissemination. This project aims to support low-skilled adults in marginalized communities through activities and concepts of Urban Arts Education. Social inclusion and empowerment of this target group is the focus of the project activities and results. By providing scientific studies and technical literature on the potentials of Urban Arts Education, a sustainable awareness of the target groups of this project shall be created. Urban Arts Education is defined from the conceptual triangle of arts education, urban adult education and urban Arts. Thus it encompasses the creative development of the individual as well as the understanding of regional and international art and culture in large, densely populated urban areas with a diverse population. Dealing with art in the community of low qualified adults from marginalized groups overcomes socio-cultural barriers and provides access to new social groups. Here, transdisciplinary art disciplines function as communication instruments for intercultural dialogue and social integration.