Education
Date : Sep 26, 2025
Time : 17:15 - 19:15 PM
How do we prepare today’s cultural workers to meet the challenges of tomorrow? What forms of knowledge and practice are needed to confront the urgencies of sustainability? This roundtable is dedicated to exploring the transmission of both formal and informal knowledge, examining the roles of academies, museums, schools, and territories, while also recognizing lifelong learning as essential to cultural work.
The discussion reflects on education not only as the acquisition of skills, but as the cultivation of awareness, criticality, and responsibility. It considers how cultural institutions might become laboratories of co-learning, where knowledge flows reciprocally across generations, disciplines, and communities.
At its core, this roundtable asks: What skills and literacies are needed to imagine, build, and sustain future-ready cultural institutions? How can formal, informal, and continuous education prepare new generations to face cultural and ecological challenges with resilience and creativity? And how might institutions themselves help spread a culture of sustainability through educational programs, partnerships, and practices of care?
Moderator
Education
Edith Doron
Independent Researcher, Museum and Education Specialist
Cecile Shellman
Education
independent museum consultant
Janera Solomon
Education
Writer, Curator, and Cultural strategist
Pau Palacios
Education
co-founder of Agrupación Señor Serrano
Ray (Raymond) Gastil
Education
Urban planner, Educator, and Author
Eric Shiner
Education
President of Powerhouse Arts (formerly Director, Andy Warhol Museum)
Christopher Fynsk
Education
Philosopher and Literary scholar
Francesco Spampinato
Education
Professor of History of Contemporary Art
See Also
International Forum on the Sustainability of Cultural Institutions
The Forum is a global initiative dedicated to rethinking the role of cultural institutions in building sustainable futures. It explores how the cultural field can address ecological, social, and economic challenges through new models of collaboration, research, and transformation. Structured around roundtables, and keynotes, the Forum brings together international voices to imagine institutions as ecosystems—resilient, inclusive, and deeply rooted in their communities.
