Democracy skills are not only about information and education, but above all require the promotion of emotional skills and the experience of being good, important and a part of it “first-hand”. How can we learn to have constructive and open conversations, counteract populism and polarization, build resilience in the face of polemics and find courageous ways out of a sedating “normality”? We talk to Philipp Klittich about what we can do to counter the crisis of democracy through creative education and new places of social cohesion.

How can we learn about everyday democracy, design spaces for constructive debate and create opportunities for active participation in museums? Around the opening of DIREKTION FÜR ALLE! and as part of the exhibition BLOCKCHAIN:UNCHAINED. New Tools for Democracy, we talk about shaping democracy and participation in the Conversation Pieces.

THE FORMAT CONVERSATION PIECES
We need to talk! In the art education format Conversation Pieces we will speak with artists, activists, scientists, and personalities from various fields about select objects from the MAK Collection. Conversation Pieces is dedicated to themes like diversity, feminism, participation or loneliness, symbiotic bodies, racism in collections, planet care, and much more. We use the MAK as a polyphonic place for the exchange of ideas and to engage in various sociopolitical discourses and problems that enable new perspectives on an extraordinary collection. Conversation Pieces can be understood as an impetus to make widespread pictorial worlds and narratives visible and to critically question them by talking about them together.

PRICE
Participation free of charge with valid museum ticket (Tuesday Night reduced admission of € 8, MAK Annual Ticket, Bundesmuseencard etc.)