Transcultural reflection

It is fundamental to Geschichtswerkstatt Europa that the projects bring together participants from different cultures to work on one theme. From the outset the projects therefore involve dialogue, which reveals the limitations of collective discussions. It is only in the course of the project work that differences become apparent, as well as cultural conditioning, dependent on how and why the participants carry out their project.

Interdisciplinary projects often trigger different cultural and academic crises of socialisation. These are not ignored by Geschichtswerkstatt Europa, but are instead thematised as an important part of the project work. These crises can be overcome by questioning and qualifying the significance of ones own cultural conditioning, while challenging the certainties of ones own knowledge by confronting it with other fundamental assumptions.