Microreview: Pilots Forever?

Mader Microreview 01
Title Page The Creator Doctus Constellation. Exploring a new model for a doctorate in the arts, 2021.
Mader Microreview 02
Title Page, EQ Arts. A framework of good practices for 3rd cycle doctoral awards in the creative and performing arts sector, 2021
Date
2022 May
Subtitle
Rachel Mader reviews Creator Doctus (CrD): EQ Arts. A framework of good practices for 3rd cycle doctoral awards in the creative and performing arts sector, and The Creator Doctus Constellation. Exploring a new model for a doctorate in the arts , 2021.
Type
microreview
Author / Publisher
Rachel Mader for NewsLibrary
Author Info

Rachel Mader is an art researcher, since 2012 she has directed the competence centre Art, Design & Public Spheres at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Art.

Language

English

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Reviewed Publication

Creator Doctus (CrD) is a 3-year ERASMUS+ funded international project, involving Athens School of Arts, Greece; l’École nationale supérieure d’arts de Paris-Cergy, France; Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania; Glasgow School of Art, United Kingdom; Merz Akademie, Germany; The Royal Danish Art Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Arts, Denmark; Gerrit Rietveld Academie, The Netherlands, and EQ-Arts International Quality Assurance Agency for the Arts, The Netherlands as the partners, developing 3rd cycle programmes.

According to its initiators, Creator Doctus is a pilot project. Its goal: to provide doctorates in the arts with a model-like and generally applicable "framework of good practice" and to combine forces (seven institutions participated in it) to ensure that the policy makers quickly get on with the implementation of the 3rd cycle. In terms of educational policy, this step is long overdue: universities are responsible for providing the next generation of scientists, yet to date the majority of art and design universities don't possess the appropriate legal basis with which to accredit them. For 20 years, following in the wake of the Bologna Declaration and the desired standardisation of training structures, policy papers, manuals and manifestos have been demanding equal treatment of the fields of art and design compared to other disciplines. For at least as long, young artistic-scientific talent has been organizing itself (in free flight, so to speak) and, with an unmanageably diverse research output, has not only proven the competence and potential of its activity, but also demonstrated its innovative spirit and agility by successfully asserting itself in an inhospitable environment. The pilot's license is overdue – that's what the two Creator Doctus publications are about.