PI(t)E – Pedagogical Innovation through Essayism

The dynamic cluster PI(t)E – Pedagogical Innovation through Essayism – aims to establish ‘essayism’ as an innovative pedagogical and artistic method across disciplines such as film, visual arts, music, performance, theatre, and games. Due to its reflective, open-ended, and subjective nature, the essay offers a unique model for thinking-through-making. Its process-based approach makes it particularly apt for being integrated in artistic research, offering researchers of all disciplines both a method for investigating the questions that are relevant to their practices as well as a common ground to communicate the thought-processes underlying their experiments.

While the essay has long been adopted in literary, performative, visual and audiovisual art forms (e.g. essay films, photo-essays, performance essays), its pedagogical potential in higher arts education remains to be developed in a structural way. This dynamic cluster aims to explore, test, and articulate essayism as a transdisciplinary methodology to 1. bridge theory and practice, 2. foster dialogical and self-reflexive learning, and 3. implement artistic research in education.

Team

• Isolde Vanhee
• Katarína Mišíková
• Arne De Winde
• Jan Peeters
• Soraya Vasconcelos
• Hugo Barata
• Tom Van Imschoot
• Markéta Štefková
• Geert Kestens
• Jasper Delbecke
• Eva Moulaert
• Žofia Ščuroková
• Carina Erdmann
• Sara Santos
• Francesca Hawker
• Konstanza Kapsali
• Katharina Dreyer
• Nico Boon
• Miglė Križinauskaitė-Bernotienė
• Anı Ekin Özdemir