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What does an equitable school look like? What is educational equity, and why does it matter to us all? The Unlock the Future exhibition provides answers to these questions and brings research findings on educational equity in Bremen and Bremerhaven to life.
The Unlock the Future exhibition will be on display at the Bremerhaven City Library from May 14 to June 10 and at the House of Science in Bremen from June 13 to August 6, where it will also include a photo gallery in Bremen City Library's Wallsaal room. The exhibition invites everyone interested to come together and think about a more equitable future. It is aimed at children aged six and above, as well as adults, particularly decision-makers in education, politics, and administration. Admission is free.
Media representatives are invited to the exhibition opening on May 14 at 5 p.m. at Bremerhaven City Library. There will be an opportunity to take photos from 4 p.m. Please register by emailing presse@uni-bremen.de.
Professor Sabine Doff from the University of Bremen has curated the exhibition. She initiated Unlock the Future in response to structural inequalities in the education system. Together with Gesine Born from the Bilderinstitut agency and twelve schools in Bremen and Bremerhaven, she developed the basis for the project with the scientific study "Expedition Bildungsgerechtigkeit" (Expedition Educational Equity). The communications and design agency GfG / Gruppe für Gestaltung was responsible for developing and implementing the exhibition, the website, and all media.
Foundation of the Exhibition: The Expedition Educational Equity Study – Understanding Practice, Making Diversity Visible
Taking lessons from good practice examples for more educational equality – this is the guiding principle of the academic study “Expedition Bildungsgerechtigkeit” (Expedition Educational Equality), which was carried out at twelve schools in Bremen and Bremerhaven.
Sabine Doff and Gesine Born have combined qualitative research through interviews with pupils and teachers with visual documentation. Virtual content creator Gesine Born took photographic portraits of the participants and developed AI-generated images of the future together with the young people.
The result is twelve school portraits that visualize concrete ways of implementing educational equity and from which four central fields of action have emerged. The combination of qualitative research and visual communication makes the study particularly accessible. It will be published as an open access publication by Verlag Julius Klinkhardt in summer 2025.
The Unlock the Future Exhibition – Educational Equity Is the Key to Tomorrow
The most important insights from the study will be presented digitally and interactively as part of the traveling exhibition – in a free-standing three-dimensional installation. Visitors can experience how educational equity can be seen, felt, and discussed.
In a quiz, they first learn about three different concepts of educational justice – recognition, threshold, and distributional justice. The focus then shifts to the twelve participating schools: Texts, photographs, and AI-generated images of the future show how educational justice is actively shaped today. QR codes lead to more in-depth information, voices from the field, and further materials. The exhibition combines theory and practice, individual experiences, and structural challenges, thus making a decisive contribution to the public discourse on educational equality.
The following twelve schools are featured:
• St.-Johannis-Schule, Bremen
• BBSG – Berufsbildende Schule für Gesundheit, Pflege und Soziales, Bremen Walle
• Hermann-Böse-Gymnasium, Bremen
• Schule an der Humannstraße, Bremen Gröpelingen
• Schule an der Fritz-Gansberg-Straße, Bremen Schwachhausen
• Albert-Einstein-Oberschule, Bremen Osterholz
• Neue Oberschule Lehe, Bremerhaven
• Neue Grundschule Lehe, Bremerhaven
• Berufsbildende Schulen Sophie Scholl, Bremerhaven
• Heinrich-Heine-Schule, Bremerhaven Leherheide
• Pestalozzischule, Bremerhaven Lehe
• Schule am Ernst-Reuter-Platz, Bremerhaven Lehe
The “Förderallianz Bildungsgerechtigkeit” funding alliance was founded to directly support Unlock the Future. It is committed to systematically strengthening educational equality by helping schools to implement tried-and-tested projects themselves – unbureaucratically and effectively.
The following organizations are part of the funding alliance: Collegium Förderstiftung, Dieckell Foundation, Dr. Heino Rose Foundation, Schütting Foundation, Bremische Volksbank Foundation, University of Bremen Foundation, Dr. Heines Foundation.
Unlock the Future is also supported by: GEWOBA Aktiengesellschaft Wohnen und Bauen, Bremerhaven City Council, Bremen Senator for Children and Education, Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, Stiftungshaus Bremen, Bremen State and University Library.
http://www.unlock-the-future.de (only available in German)
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