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How can we create a world that is more about caring for each other? In their theory of fragility, Yener Bayramoğlu and Maria do Mar Castro Varela develop examples and stories of how we can think differently about the interactions between people, nature and technology. I would like to make this theory fruitful for art education through a hermeneutic approach. I would then like to outline various theories in art education that have the potential to develop the theory of fragility in art education. It will then be applied to an artwork by Nigerian artist Otobong Nkanga as an artistic example of the representation of fragility.
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Marie Johanna Trautmann has been a research assistant at the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany, since 2018. She is writing her PhD on ambiguity as an approach to thinking and practicing art education in the climate crisis. In 2019-2020 she also worked in the education department of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. She studied art education and German language and literature at HBK and TU Braunschweig and at Chelsea College of Art and Design in London. Since 2024, she has also been an ambassador for the European Climate Pact.
