TACTICS (Thinking in Action: Creative Transformation of Intercultural Common Space) aims to design a joint international interdisciplinary Master's programme in which creativity will be paramount. Teaching intercultural competence through creative methods will help students to strengthen everyday culture and promote inclusive innovation. Diversity is a societal resource that contributes to increased citizenship and challenges cultural sustainability. Our common, social space is a core location where inclusion-based citizenship is performed and realised.
In times of multiple crises, the intercultural common space is a contested terrain for negotiation and its fragmentation is a major challenge for democracy and Europe. We need to develop creative solution through the co-design of tomorrow's living conditions and in the co-production of non-conformist pedagogies. Investing in creativity is essential to promote diversity and inclusion. More collaborative forms of social, cultural and political action will give rise to the co-production of the common space, which is embodied in fundamental social and cultural practices.
The EMJM will offer a 2 year master's programme between high-rank European Higher Education Institutions. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, students will be encouraged to find new ways of addressing critical issues in shared physical spaces in different local contexts and to develop projects that
operate on the frontiers of artistic and wider social practices. They will be able to adapt to specific situations and environments (observation, analysis, evaluation of needs and methodologies, conceptualisation and production) and will be trained to work collectively with the academic world and civil society through fieldwork, public and artistic interventions. By placing the creative process at its centre, we will offer new methodologies and make students the agents of their own training as well as transformative forces in the society they live in.