Lisa Nyberg
Artist, PhD, and postdoctoral researcher at the Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå University
Mark November 6 and 7 in your calendar and get ready for two days of exciting discussions and knowledge sharing at Umeå University.
Artist, PhD, and postdoctoral researcher at the Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå University
Associate Professor in Education and Senior Lecturer in Pedagogy at Mälardalen University.
Certified crafts teacher and certified woodworker at Nya Läroverket in Luleå.
Lisa Nyberg
Lisa Nyberg is an artist, PhD, and postdoctoral researcher at the Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå University. In her artistic research, she has turned to art and radical pedagogy to explore what a pedagogy of the unknown might look like. Starting from the art-educational classroom, she reflects on the role of art in engaging with the unknown and training us to remain in uncomfortable uncertainty, in order to face the future—without guarantees. Nyberg has extensive experience with educational projects in folk high schools, universities, museums, and various social movement contexts. Her doctoral dissertation Pedagogies of the Unknown – studying for a future, without guarantees (2022) was published after she completed her PhD at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna.
Johannes Rytzler
Johannes is Associate Professor of Education and Senior Lecturer in Pedagogy at Mälardalen University. His research investigates specific conceptualizations of teaching as a fundamentally interpersonal practice. His doctoral dissertation, En plats för uppmärksamhet(2017), together with subsequent publications, has examined attention as a relational phenomenon—emerging within the classroom context rather than as an individually possessed capacity. His ongoing research further explores teaching as improvisation and tact, understood both in terms of tactfulness and as rhythm, musicality, and resonance.
Teis Christiansen
Teis is a certified crafts teacher and a licensed carpenter/joiner. He works at Nya Läroverket in Luleå and was recently awarded the title Woodcrafts Teacher of the Year, becoming the first recipient of the Smörknivsstipendiet (the “Butter Knife Grant”). In addition, Teis runs Slöjdbiografen, a platform with instructional films on crafts. His work is guided by the principle that with skillful hands one can create joy, solve problems, and transform life for the better. In his teaching, he seeks to harness the energy within the learning group, uncovering and activating the knowledge already present. For him, it is the learners who should take the lead—not the teacher.
Explore "Slöjdbiografen" (Youtube)
The conference highlights teaching as an art form and focuses on the human, ethical, and creative dimensions of teaching. The programme will take place in the Humanities Building at Umeå University.
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