Roman Kroke perceives art as a social catalyst. The experiences of his personal artistic projects shall therefore also serve as a trigger to multiply the interdisciplinary discourse in other parts of society: Throughout Europe he develops, directs and coordinates workshops in partnership with universities, foundations, memorial sites, museums, schools etc. – amongst others in the context of scientific colloquiums, cultural exchange programs, study tours or project weeks. Recent publication (project at five historical sites in Germany, France, Spain and Italy): PDF. He also provides teacher trainings for the national ministries of education in France, Germany and Switzerland. According to the preferences of his partners Kroke works in English, German or French.
Orientation: interdisciplinary workshops (art, science, history, technology, literature, philosophy), adapted to the respective age-group and backgrounds of the participants. Roman Kroke has been realizing workshops for university students of diverse disciplines (visuual communication, fine arts, architecture, fashion design, communication in social and economic contexts, dance, music, litterature, …), for highschool students, teachers, university professors, refugees, prisoners, …
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For workshops to be held in Berlin, Kroke offers an emblematic location as a working space: a former industrial complex – now an Art Center – which, during the Cold War, was actually PART of the Berlin Wall – a so-called “frontier house” where still today you can discover many traces of the formerly divided city of Berlin. Please click on the following thematic icons to receive detailed information about each topic:
T H E M E S
Microplastics & Chameleons
Pacific Ocean Expedition
Women’s Biographies
Icons in history
and the present 
The S@ndcastle
Big Data, ChatGTP
Social Media
Microplastic & Medusae
Scientific research on plastic
pollution of the oceans
The Berlin Wall
The universal metaphor of
the FRONTIER (1961-∞)
Etty Hillesum
The diaries of a Dutch
Jew (1914-∞)
Cold War 2.0
Cyberwar, Climate Change, Multinational Corporations
Immigrant students
and “welcoming classes”
Refugees
(adults)
CUSTOMIZED Workshops
Topics proposed by
the customer
Prison Workshops
Teacher Training
with EXHIBITION
The children of Izieu
My House of Remembrance
The Weavers
The Canvas of the World
Adolf Reichwein
The Dance of Resistance
(1898-∞)
Theresienstadt
My memorial tree
Friedrich Spee
Witch hunts & Cybermobbing
(1591-∞)
The Vel’ d’Hiv’ Roundup
The biography of
Sarah Lichtsztejn-Montard
The White Rose
Hans and Sophie Scholl
“Our Idea”(1942-∞)
The Camp des Milles
Art and Resistance
L. Feuchtwanger, M. Ernst, etc.
The Bielski Brothers
Jewish partisan group
in Belarus (1941-1944)
Art-Philosophy Workhshops
für Kinder
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Apart from the already established topics Roman Kroke also elaborates workshop concepts for other topics (open to suggestions by the cooperation partner). Example: In 2012, as part of an International Faculty Development Seminar organized by the CIEE (Council on International Educational Exchange) Kroke accompanied a group of US university and college professors for one week to Cracow (Poland) and Berlin (Germany) and led a concluding reflection workshop for the participants about the topics treated during the study travel (individual and collective identity, cultures of commemoration etc.). This successful workshop-model was again part of the annual CIEE seminar in the following years (2013-2016).
Distinctions:
« Prix Ilan Halimi contre les discriminations et l’antisémitisme » by the Conseil général de l’Essonne (prize: 10.000,-€): distinction of a school project of the Collège Charles Péguy (Palaiseau/France) with an interdisciplinary workshop by Roman Kroke about the topic “Art & Resistance”, February 2014; « Grand prix Hippocrène de l’éducation à l’Europe 2012 » by the Foundation Hippocrène in the European Parliament (prize: 10.000,-€): distinction of the bilateral exchange program between the French Gymnasium Aristide Maillol (Perpignan/France) and the John F. Kennedy School (Berlin/Germany) with a workshop by Roman Kroke about the diaries of Etty Hillesum (1914-1943); Kroke’s workshops have also repeatedly been distinguished by the Berlin Senate Department for Education, Youth and Science in so-called “best-practice” exhibitions for their innovative approach and role-model qualities. The foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” (EVZ) sponsored the German and English publication of the edition “ART GOES EDUCATION – international school workshops by Roman Kroke” (Mediel, 2012).