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New title ArtEZ Press: No University - A Creative Turn in Higher Education by Jeroen Lutters

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No University. A Creative Turn in Higher Education is essential reading for anyone questioning the contemporary structure of higher education and those who are looking for a more resilient, equitable, and sustainable future society, particularly through a repositioning of the arts and humanities. This book explores a subject that is incredibly important to the future of our society: the innovation of higher education.

New title ArtEZ Press: No University - A Creative Turn in Higher Education by Jeroen Lutters
New title ArtEZ Press: No University - A Creative Turn in Higher Education by Jeroen Lutters

In his new book, author Jeroen Lutters, who is professor of Art education as Critical Tactics (AeCT) at ArtEZ, presents a highly personal journey from the source of his pedagogical philosophy on higher education, the Free University of Bernard Lievegoed (founded in 1971), finding his way into Utrecht University of the Arts, the Windesheim University of Applied Sciences and ArtEZ University of the Arts, culminating in a joint venture launched this year at the Academiehuis in Zwolle 'No University - Center for Advanced Studies' where scientist, artist, makers work together on a more resilient, equitable, and sustainable future.

Fifty years after Free University was launched, the concept remains a crucial guideline for Lutters in creating a non-reductionist, de-disciplined, multi-level form of higher education. No University: a real academic ideal, based on a tradition of what Joseph Beuys once called ‘the science of freedom’.

Dr. John Johnston, a prominent scholar in socially engaged art practices, says: ‘This is a beautiful, poetic reflection on a very unique form and experience of education.’

More about Jeroen Lutters

Jeroen Lutters is professor of Art education as Critical Tactics (AeCT) at ArtEZ University of the Arts, the author of Creative Theories of (Just About) Everything (2020), and the designer of several groundbreaking educational designs in higher education, such as No School, Teachers’ College, Artist Educator, and Create Space.

Center of Advanced Studies

No University is an international community of non-conformist artists, makers and scientists, working together on inter-disciplinary, multi-level, non-reductionist research and experiments related to the important societal challenges of the next decades: sustainability, equitability and resilience.