Institute Art Gender Nature, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW

Why do you teach? This is easy, I barely teach. My role is to define and to maintain a constant conversation with the teachers about the curriculum, the methods and the character of the school, and the several programs we support that are open to the public. I am, it’s true, really involved in mentoring. I do many hours of one-on-one …

1. Why did you decide to go into teaching? To continue learning. 2. What drew you to your school and what is your teaching philosophy? The possibility of joining director Chus Martínez in shaping a new pedagogical project on the most urgent matters of our present-future: Nature, Gender, Race. I don’t think I have a “teaching philosophy”: it would …

Anyone not closely involved in the art school in Basel might have only noticed in late 2013 that changes were afoot there. For some years there had been noises emerging about a new campus, but in Basel, development seems to be a fact of life, just as one would take it for granted that there was an art school in …