Pedagogies of the Rural

Pedagogies of the Rural builds on the 3-year long exhibition movement Hosting Lands, winner of the Bikuben Foundation Visionary Exhibition Award 2022. 

“What do we need to learn (or unlearn) to meet a changing environment?” the project asks. “How do we prepare for futures yet unimaginable? And how do we meet and organize around questions that demand acute and careful attention to the local environments and communities we inhabit, while not losing track of the global conditions and contexts, in which we inhabit very different positions and privileges?”

Pedagogies of the Rural invites four international projects into conversation and collaboration with four different sites in Denmark, emphasizing artwork productions and network facilitation that speak to the question of how to open and hold space around the sharing of local knowledges within networks of trans-local / global encounters. The aim of the project is to build lasting infrastructures of knowledge- and methodology exchanges between the collaborators and their Danish hosting sites, in which the artists and communities will be invited to follow each other’s processes and co-construct spaces (digital and physical) around knowledge sharing that can persist after the end of the project. These workshops seek to articulate and institute pedagogical strategies, which will be documented and mapped into a kind of shared curriculum, and published digitally as part of Hosting Lands