The lecture explores feedback culture as a core element of teaching and learning across a wide range of artistic disciplines, contexts, and didactic formats. Drawing on insights from artistic research and arts pedagogy—particularly practices developed at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen – it investigates how the interplay between presentational formats and attentive feedback can support peer-based learning, critical thinking, and artistic development. The lecture will present concrete examples and approaches, while also addressing broader aspects of cultivating a sound learning environment and feedback culture – both between teachers and students and among peers.
The full-day workshop offers hands-on insight into feedback as a central didactic tool in higher music education. Drawing on practices developed at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen, we explore how presentational formats and active, critical listening can support peer-based learning and artistic development. Participants will be introduced to a range of auditive feedback models tailored to diverse musical practices and aesthetics, including strategies for facilitating peer-to-peer sessions, structuring group reflections, and navigating differentiated evaluation criteria. The workshop also introduces RMC’s approach to the main course, Artistic Development Work, rooted in the Scandinavian notion of Artistic Research, where the sharing of artistic practices and processes becomes a key site for feedback, dialogue, reflection, and knowledge making between students and teachers.