Education
Creative Mediation — Informal Master's Program
The informal master's program in Creative Mediation has been operating since 2010. In the field of Georgian education, it is an outstanding exponent of modern teaching principles. With creativity as it's main pillar, the goal of the program is to implement socially and ecologically important projects.
Creative mediation responds to the multiplicity of disciplines as well as local and global challenges in congruence with two key principles:
- Flexibility - constant renewal of the program in accordance with the rapidly changing reality.
- Synergy - review of disciplines, formats and action on untapped territories between them.
In the process of teaching, all participants carry out a real, innovative project in parallel with dozens of practical and theoretical intensive courses. That is why, after successful completion of the Creative Mediation program, graduates possess all the skills necessary to effectively implement long-term projects in a rapidly changing reality.
International Success
MA in Creative Mediation has been actively presented internationally since 2017.
⇒ The first important invitation came from the Frieze Projects, a 1-day symposium held in London, where an hour-long lecture presented the specifics of creative mediation.
⇒ In 2018, the exhibition entitled: Make Your School, held at the VT Artsalon, a contemporary art gallery in the capital of Taiwan, Taipei, was of great importance. The main goal of the exhibition was to present creative mediation as a modern, flexible organism and to propose the development of new educational models. Parallel to the exhibition, on the initiative of artist Zura Tsofurashvili, Taiwanese professionals received an offer to implement a creative mediation program, after which the exhibition turned into a school for a month.
⇒ In the same 2018, a conference (Korean Research Fellow 10X10, 10 Global Curators X 10 Korean Curators) was held in Seoul, the capital of South Korea, which was attended by the founder of the center, Wato Tsereteli. During the conference, a lecture on creative mediation was held and an interview was conducted, which is documented in the conference publication.
⇒ The conference held in Brussels in 2018 with the title: Shaping Desired Futures: Cultural Relations in Europe and Beyond is also worth noting. Here Wato Tsereteli spoke about creative mediation as a response to global challenges in the field of education. Afterwards, The Brussels Cultural Center Bozar and the Italian publishing house NERO published a book with the same name and an article about creative mediation.
⇒ The center's exhibition on creative mediation was highly praised at the first art, design and education fair in Shanghai: FutureLab 2019. It is noteworthy that The Center of Contemporary Art (CCA) presented its informal master’s program alongside such prominent and well-established educational institutions as: London Royal College of Art, Berlin University of Arts, Edinburgh College of Art and others. At the Shanghai exhibition, we presented two aspects, where one covered a 9-month structure of teaching and the length of the courses, while the other showcased the long-term innovative social projects initiated by our students.
