The climate crisis, Covid-19 and demographic change: many social transformation processes of our time are discussed as generational conflicts. So there is a need for discussion between younger and older people. However, many children and young people grow up at a great distance from their grandparents. In only six percent of households do over-65s live together with younger people. When the opportunities for everyday contact between the generations dwindle, arranged encounters are needed. With joint art, dance, theater, media and other cultural projects, cultural education offers a wide range of opportunities to promote intergenerational dialogue. In this issue of Kulturräume+, we therefore focus on intergenerational cultural education. Scholarly articles by Miriam Haller on generational distinctions in cultural education, by Julia Franz, Claudia Kühn and Annette Scheunpflug on the intergenerational transmission of cultural knowledge in rural areas and by Mendina Scholte-Reh on “Social Granfluencers” open the discussion. Articles about the intergenerational activities of the Lesebürger*innen in Münsterland, about the Children’s Opera Cologne, which connects people with dementia and children through music, and about the theater project “A Question of Age” provide insights into practice. All of them encourage people to learn with, from and about each other in cultural projects and to challenge mutual prejudices in the process. A photo series shows the creative ways in which Irishman Enda Burke spent the lockdown in his childhood home. He presents his parents in an ironic and shrill way.
The view into the halls of many traditional cultural institutions is deceptive: although older people often form the majority of the audience there, culturally active people are clearly in the minority among older people overall. Those who are poor are particularly rare among regular users of culture. The 27th issue of kubia magazine focuses on the cultural participation of older people living at or below the poverty line.
The 26th issue of kubia magazine asks how feminism has shaped academic discourse, cultural practice and female biographies.
The 25th issue of kubia magazine focusses on museums and examines their relationship with older people, the accessibility of their offerings and their quality standards.
This issue of Kulturräume+ asks what cultural education and inclusive cultural work for and with older people can contribute to more careful use of natural resources.
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Azina Barzideh