Jeroen Lutters

The Art Education as Critical Tactics professorship develops theories of creativity and imagination and conducts radical educational experiments to explore how education can be made future-proof. 

Lutters views art education as a driving force for social change. Rather than measuring and assessment, he concentrates on what truly makes learning meaningful: creativity, imagination and a sense of purpose. His approach to engaging with art – Art-Based (Un)Learning – invites people to break away from fixed patterns of thought and learn to see anew.  

Within ArtEZ, Lutters works with students, lecturers, artists, researchers and social partners on projects that unite art, education and research. His professorship includes around ten researchers, several of whom are PhD candidates. He also leads funded projects, including the research initiative Art-Based Learning in Palliative Care, in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, University of Twente, Radboud University and several museums.  

Jeroen Lutters is Professor of Art Education as Critical Tactics at ArtEZ University of the Arts. He obtained his PhD at the University of Amsterdam through the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis. He previously served as Rector of Vrije Hogeschool in Driebergen, Professor of Art and Cultural Education at Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, and Visiting Professor at the universities of Groningen, Amsterdam and California. He founded the Bernard Lievegoed University, Teachers College Windesheim and (No) University. His many publications – including Creative Theories of (Just About) Everything, In the Shadow of the Artwork: Art-Based Learning in Practice, (No) University, A Creative Turn in Higher Education and The Trade of the Teacher – Visual Thinking with Mieke Bal – are considered influential works in the field of art and learning.