Professor für Art Education

collaeb is a digital, collaborative platform for arts education that has been creating virtual spaces for exchange, networking, and joint knowledge production since 2023.

It connects teachers, researchers, and mediators across school levels, disciplines, and countries to work together on future-relevant topics in arts and cultural education.

Collaeb sees itself as a low-threshold, self-organized community of practice that initiates innovation in the field of arts education and sustainably strengthens professionalization.

OPEN BOOK was, on the one hand, a large, three-day symposium (October 2024) initiated by the PhD program in Art & Design Didactics at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) by Miriam Schmidt-Wetzel and Christin Lübke, where researchers, teachers, and practitioners from the fields of art and education came together to discuss and reflect on methods, experiences, and perspectives of practice-oriented research in art education.

At the same time, OPEN BOOK is intended as a publication project: in a collaborative, participatory process, a handbook will be created that serves as a systematic overview of current methodological approaches and research practices in art education—with insights into specific projects, methodological reflections, and visions for future research. The volume is edited by Miriam Schmidt-Wetzel (ZHdK), Christin Lübke (TU Dresden), Nadia Bader (PH Zurich), and Johanna Tewes (AKB Stuttgart). The handbook is expected to be published at the end of 2026. Graphic Recording - OPEN BOOK

SPOT ON is a series of events in which practical art teaching and experiential formats at university level were systematically examined and reflected upon. The aim is to focus on a specific field of artistic practice—such as performance (2023, TU Dresden) or drawing (2024, PH Freiburg)—at different educational institutions in order to present different artistic approaches, self-conceptions, and teaching concepts, discuss them together, and examine them in practical and theoretical exchanges.

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SPOT ON thus creates a subject-specific educational platform—open, pluralistic, and collaborative—that combines artistic practice and reflection on art education and invites students, teachers, and practitioners to engage in discussion and joint development. SPOT ON auf collaeb

5D is an ongoing project that emerged from the experiences of ad hoc digitization and continues to address key issues in contemporary art education. The focus is on “dimensions”—such as distance, digitality, dialogue, and didactics—in which practitioners, teachers, and researchers jointly explore how artistic work and mediation can be shaped under changed social and media conditions.

5D functions as a compact space for thinking and experimentation that opens up new perspectives for future-oriented art education practice. The results of the workshop, which was held online in December 2021, are compiled in the anthology “Auf der Suche nach 5. Dimension. Kollaboration und Digitalität in Arts Education” (ed. Lübke/Schmidt-Wetzel, 2021). 5D. Auf der Suche nach der fünften Dimension