Carola Boehm
Declaration
My personal belief is that when rationality has stopped working, art can cut through and ensure our messages have reach and impact. Thus, arts in higher education becomes increasingly important as it contributes so heavily to the essence of what it means to be human. And it is also important because we live in a period where we – as the Earth’s most thinking and creative species – have to overcome our own most pernicious man-made ecological challenges. This is happening – apparently coincidentally, but we know to be very much linked – at a time where we seem to discount that same rationality and critical thinking which would allow us to solve the growing number of disruptions in the political, economic, societal, as well as ecological sphere.
And this is where the power of the creative arts comes in. When rationality has stopped working, art can reach on an emotional level.
See my article on WONKHE: https://wonkhe.com/blogs/sustaining-university-arts-can-give-us-the-antidote-to-our-toxic-political-culture/