An education turned around by art: famous English anthropologist Tim Ingold invites us to consider the arts as the very basis of an education in the 21st-century, an education that might begin to address the profound social and ecological crises we face.
"Under the acronym of STEM, education in the many disciplines of science, technology, engineering and mathematics has been harnessed to the relentless demand of the neoliberal economy for knowledge products. In this, students are cast as consumers, while educators are service providers, tasked with delivering the products their students wish to acquire.
What, then, can art and architecture do? In the following I will set out three possible answers to this question."
Tim Ingold (born 1948) is a teacher at the Department of Anthropology School of Social Science, University of Aberdeen.
