Cosplay and identity, how falsehoods are created in image and film, images of home and homesickness. Investigations into collective creation processes, creative processes, and how messages change in translation and spread between different media and forms of linguistic expression. How a person with dyslexia invents creative solutions and innovative forms of creation without text, how illiterate middle-aged women who have recently immigrated to Sweden learn to read and write using images and artistic creation. Questions about possibilities and limitations in creating and presenting images in urban public spaces. Studies of the conditions which apply to young people’s opportunities to produce and consume art and culture in small towns in Norrland and in rural areas, and of how rituals and traditions are organised at graduations and other school festivities. Testing of new methods of visualising and giving form to what is taken for granted.

The responsible task of being an art teacher to children and young people; helping them to express themselves, their opinions and dreams, requires the ability to switch between and make use of artistic, formative and scientific forms of knowledge. The task which falls to the graduating students in the final semester of their five years at Konstfack is that they will conduct an investigation with a didactic and/or pedagogical aim — and they must do so with both theoretical and artistic methods. As we can see from the list above, the methods are applied and tested in a range of different subjects, especially those which concern matters of norm criticism and inclusion; elements central to the teacher training at Konstfack.

In the degree exhibition, we present parts of the process and results from the different investigations. The part which is not seen here is the academic thesis.

Tina Carlsson, Senior Lecturer in Visual Design
Kenneth Karlsson, Senior Lecturer, Course Coordinator