Disability & Leadership

05.03.2026, 18:00–20:00 CET (with 15-min break)

  • Online
  • Project

Registration: rt007@kunstbrauchtkohle.ch (Deadline: 2 March 2026)

We’re excited to share that our director Marea Hildebrand will be speaking at the upcoming round table hosted by Kunst braucht Kohle.

Marea is an education innovator, inclusion researcher, ceramic artist, and founder of School of Commons — a global initiative centered on peer learning and transdisciplinarity. She advocates for greater accessibility in digital learning environments and will share insights from our ongoing research project Re:make Diversity, which brings together inclusion, participation, and collective knowledge production — core practices of the commons. What if leadership is not shaped by norms of ability — but by lived experience, interdependence and access? Marea proposed the topic Disability & Leadership. It invites us to think leadership not despite, but with and through disability. It means that people with disabilities and/or chronic illnesses do not have to adapt to non-disabled leadership norms. Instead, disability is recognized as competence, experiential knowledge and leadership perspective.

This approach also makes visible how exclusion operates at the intersections of disability, class, race and other power relations. What is your vision of Disability & Leadership? Join the discussion on Thursday, 5 March 2026

ART NEEDS COAL (Chantal Romani & Jana Vanecek)

Accessibility

  • The event will take place in German spoken language and will be subtitled live.
  • There is a translation into sign language (DSGS).
  • Are you using AAC? We look forward to your contributions.
  • The chat is available for communication.
  • Your presence is a valuable contribution — you don’t have to join the discussion.
  • You can keep your camera off for the entire session.
  • Stimming and fidgeting are expressly welcome.
  • Participation while lying down or in bed is very welcome.
  • There is a fixed 15-minute break.
  • You can take an individual break and rejoin at any time.

Marea Hildebrand

Marea has been directing the project since its beginnings in late 2016. With an established background in arts education, she earned a BA in Art Education and an MA in Transdisciplinary Studies, from Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK).