Grants and Memberships
From 1991-1993 scholarship holder at Evangelisches Studienwerk, Haus Villigst; from 1996-1998 scholarship holder at the Laurenz House Foundation, Basel.
Trustee Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin. Jury member Joseph Beuys Research Award (Joseph Beuys Preis für Forschung), Museum Schloss Moyland. Jury chairman Social Sculpture Award 2019. Co-Founder and advisor Joseph Beuys Cafe Melbourne. Scientific advisor Europahaus Burgenland, Eisenstadt, Austria.
Particular contribution to the field of Social Sculpture / SSRU
- Epistemology in the work of Joseph Beuys and related philosophical enquiries
- Philosophy of Imagination and its relevance to contemporary social sculpture
- Agents of Change, Ecological Citizenship and Poetic Consciousness
- Practice based supervision for graduate research students
- Contributing to international fora on social sculpture and presenting the work of the Social Sculpture Research Unit in international contexts.
Doctoral Supervision Areas
- Joseph Beuys“ ‘theory of sculpture“
- The interface between theory and practice in the field of social sculpture
- Epistemology in the work of Joseph Beuys and related philosophical enquiries
- The philosophy of imagination and its relevance to contemporary social sculpture
- Agents of Change, Ecological Citizenship and Poetic Consciousness
- Social Sculpture and New Economics