The Negotiated Cultural Environment
The Master’s Programme in Cultural Environment Studies (KUOMA), at the University of Jyväskylä’s Department of Music, Art, Culture Studies, is an educational innovation founded upon ‘cultural environment’ as a concept and as a framework (as a concept of agency), as well as analysis of the current state of the field of cultural environments. This article takes a look at some of the starting points and foundations for the research within the Master’s Programme in Cultural Environment Studies, as well as expounding teaching and research practices using two case examples. The Mätäsvaara project was created for developing multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary pedagogy for the university setting b…