Opetussuunnitelmat

Objective

Students are able to acknowledge, adapt and strengthen their role as cultural managers in supporting the general sustainability movement, impacting people’s and industries’ pro-ecological behaviours, assisting all types of attempts to make our life on Earth more sustainable, ethical, responsible or balanced – in environmental, social and economic sense.

Content

- Beyond prepositions, assumptions and contradictions. Culture in, for or as sustainability
- Environmental and urban planning dimensions of sustainability and the role of cultural ecosystems
- Cultural tourism and sustainability
- Social dimensions of sustainability, cultural audiences and culture and arts professionals
- Public health policies and cultural organisations – the pandemic lesson
- Inter-generational aspect of sustainability – cultural management applications
- Economic sustainability through cultural management lenses – global and local perspective
- Cultural matters on the edge of protection and free access, conservation and change

Location and time

14.1 Tue, 13:00-17:00 EET (hybrid, Ilkantie in Helsinki and zoom session option)

21.1. Tue, 13:00-17:00 EET (online zoom session)

4.2 Tue, 13:00-17:00 EET (online zoom session)

25.2 Tue, 13:00-17:00 EET (hybrid, Ilkantie in Helsinki and zoom session option)

Materials

Hoodle platform content: texts and videos.

Teaching methods

As a blended learning process, it comprises of (a) 4 sessions with international and Finnish guest lecturers, facilitated by the host lecturer of the course, Dr Marcin Poprawski; (b) the access to the interactive Hoodle platform with the content to be studied by participants. The platform gives access to literature files, video materials, and digital sources. Webinars 1 and 4 (that gives a hybrid learning option) are organised in the classroom of Humak UAS in Helsinki and broadcasted life online as a zoom session, for those who can't attend it in the classroom. Webinars 2 and 3 are entirely online zoom webinars.

Employer connections

Students are able to acknowledge, adapt and strengthen their role as cultural managers in supporting the general sustainability movement, impacting people’s and industries’ proecological behaviours, assisting all types of attempts to make our life more sustainable, ethical, responsible or balanced – in environmental, social and economic sense. The course aim is to activate different streams of students' activity regarding culture & sustainability values: interaction, cooperation, reflection, written argumentation and dialogue in conversation. The course is a safe space for questioning the answers and providing solutions regarding cultural professionals’ role in balancing their ecosystems. It's above all about confronting cultural management practice with environmental, social, and economic dimensions of sustainability.

After completion of the course the participant:
• can recognize unsustainable practices in cultural production and cultural management activities,
• can share in her/his professional environment the essential questions, dilemmas, values, and content related to sustainability issues in cultural managers work, including environmental, social, and economic dimensions,
• strengthens her/his role of cultural manager in supporting the general sustainability movement, impacting people’s and industries’ pro-ecological behaviours, assisting all types of attempts to make our life more sustainable, ethical, responsible, or balanced – in environmental, social, and economic sense,
• can propose sustainability-oriented solutions, interact, fairly cooperate, reflect, write, and advocate regarding key sustainability related issues in cultural production practice in domestic and international contexts,
• can provide sustainability-oriented proposals related to the intergenerational transmission of cultural values.
• can recognise the key challenges of economic, social, and environmental sustainability in cultural and creative sectors,
• can apply in cultural workplace some sustainability-oriented audience centric solutions with the use of audience development logic and terminology

Content scheduling

Content (sessions 1-4)
• Thresholds. Social dimensions of sustainability and audience-centric cultural public spaces
• Beyond prepositions, assumptions and contradictions. Culture in, for or as Sustainability
• Audience engagement, cultural management and sustainability values
• Environmental and urban planning dimensions of sustainability and the role of cultural Ecosystems.
• Social dimensions of Sustainability - Fair international cooperation - cultural production - cultural policy
• Inter-generational aspect of sustainability – cultural management applications
• Economic sustainability through cultural management lenses – global and local perspective
• Cultural Tourism, Creative Tourism and Sustainability
• Aesthetics and Sustainability
• Cultural matters on the edge of protection and free access, conservation and change

Further information

Important notice: Even if the course has the number 3 in its title - as part of a set of three courses - this module can be taken as a separate unit, without any connection to the others and without the need to take any other courses beforehand.

COSM is a laboratory of sustainability focused cultural management teaching methods and social (community) impact tools, applied to cultural management and cultural organisations practices.
The first side of the COSM perspective is the one that acknowledge, adapt and strengthen the role of cultural managers in supporting the general sustainability movement, impacting people’s and industries’ pro-ecological behaviours, assisting all types of attempts to make our life more sustainable, ethical, responsible or balanced – in environmental, social and economic sense.
The second perspective of the COSM is the one from the inside of cultural management ecosystems. To strengthen sustainability values-oriented practices of leaders and employees of culture, art & heritage organisations’, as well as culture & arts entrepreneurs. This includes: the quality of organisational cultures, the range and accessibility of professional development conditions, non-toxic leadership, synergetic and participative cultural policies as a soil for cultural management practice, ethical and balanced cultural work environment. This is all about providing tools and conditions for a sustainable, healthy, ethically concerned cultural management ecosystems. We require a refreshed perspective on the impact of cultural policies’ political trends and conditions on the cultural management practice. Sustainability values oriented cultural management might be the answer.
More information on COSMs: cosm.humak.fi

Evaluation scale

0-5

Assessment methods and criteria

1-5 Finnish grading scale; assignment formats: groupwork, readings & discussion sessions, short essay, individual application plan of the course content;
The course aim is to activate at least few different streams of students' activity regarding culture & sustainability values: interaction, cooperation, reflection, written argumentation and dialogue in conversation. That is why we propose a combination of 3 complementary final assignments (A + B + C = 5 ECTS).
A. Teamwork in task-oriented groups focused on PREPARATION of recommendations for cultural managers and cultural producers regarding sustainability values in particular professional field, summarised in the presentation with a recommendations 'catalogue'.
Every student becomes a member of one of a three/four task-oriented groups and meets every webinar (a part of every webinar is provided as a groups' virtual space [breakoutroom]/time. The groups are:
A) Cultural management, sustainability values and performing arts
B) Cultural management, sustainability values, visual arts and media
C) Cultural management, sustainability values, books and reading
D) Cultural management, sustainability values, heritage and memory

The final meeting (webinar 4th) is the time of presenting the recommendations prepared by groups. It's a final wrap up of the content that particular team members worked on through the process.
This is the time when the catalogue of recommendation for each of exemplary field is provided in separate presentations done by members of groups and discussed in the forum.
[ECTS: 2; Grading scale: 1-5]
+
B. Final individual conversation with the teacher based on the course content. This is delivered as a 10-15 minutes final conversation of individual student with the course teacher as students' answers to 3 questions: 1) student's reflection on the one course topic / themes presented by guests (selected by the student from topics discussed in the course); 2) student's short reflection on the academic text or video material of her/his choice - freely selected by student from the materials given with the course (on the hoodle platform); 3) student's reflection of the prospects of the course content in her/his future practice, it's impact on student's future career;
[ECTS: 1; Grading scale: passed/failed]
+
C. Written exercise - 3-5 p. course topic related short essay (based on literature or case study description consulted with the host lecturer) delivered by individual student.
[ECTS: 2; Grading scale: 1-5]
Attention!: the only number of ECTS delivered in this course is 5 [or 0] (there are no partial numbers available)

Further information

COSM 3: Cultural Management and 3 Dimensions of the Sustainability: Environmental, Social and Economice is the 3rd course of the module on cultural management and sustainability values, engaging the expertise from abovementioned research areas of sustainability. It’s aim is to acknowledge, adapt and strengthen the role of cultural managers in supporting the general sustainability movement, impacting people’s and industries’ pro-ecological behaviours, assisting all types of attempts to make our life more sustainable, ethical, responsible or balanced – in environmental, social and economic sense. And, finally this part of the module is also questioning the answers regarding cultural organizations and cultural professionals’ role in balancing their cultural ecosystems.