About the webtool

Primarily addressing teachers but also students, „Tricky Moments“ is a webtool that intends to encourage and stimulate the development and adoption of competencies in gender and diversity in personal practices of teaching and learning. It presents different angles for reflecting various experiences of teaching and learning and provides ideas to act on in relation to diversity-attuned didactic practices. In doing so, the webtool contributes to a deconstruction of established patterns, powerful cultural attributions, myths and stereotypes.

A product of countless probing motions, thought processes and discussions, the webtool incorporates individual voices alongside diverse viewpoints and experiences from the perspectives of both teachers and students. The different text formats (i.e.: describing and analyzing situations, reporting on experiences, offering practical guidance and/or checklists, defining concepts) testify to this plurality.

The project was launched in 2018 as a central measure in mdw’s diversity strategy. A DiversitätsMaßnahmenTeam für Lehre, Forschung und Weiterbildung (DMT3) [“DiversityPolicyTeam for teaching, research and further education”] was tasked with its implementation by the Vice Rectorate for Organisational Development, Gender & Diversity. Consisting of ten people, the DMT3 devised the webtool between September 2018 and February 2022; its members coming from various areas and from different hierarchical levels in the university. The development process was augmented and critically assisted by the expertise, know-how and experiential knowledge from other members of the mdw as well as from external persons. Contents were collectively compiled by the team following a methodology of steps incorporating elements of reflection, analysis and contextualization.

The webtool „Tricky Moments“ is a provision of mdw’s diversity strategy. Its development was overseen and realized by the Administrative Department of Equality, Gender Studies and Diversity (GGD) and supported by mdw’s Working Group on Equal Opportunities (AKG).

DiversitätsMaßnahmenTeam – DiversityPolicyTeam
Teaching/Research/Further Education – Webtool

• Kathrin-Paula Amtsfeld mdw-alumna (kpa)
• Marie Helle Department of Vocal Studies and Music Theatre (mh)
• Herta Hirmke-Toth Department of Music and Movement Education/Rhythmics and Music Physiology (until June 2020)
• Birgit Huebener Administrative Department of Equality, Gender Studies and Diversity (bh)
• Guilherme Maggessi Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (until September 2021)
• Helga Neira- Department of Music and Movement Education/Rhythmics and Music Physiology (hnz)
• Axel Petri-Preis Department of Music Education Research, Music Didactics and Elementary Music Education (until March 2020) (app)
• Ela Posch Administrative Department of Equality, Gender Studies and Diversity (ep)
• Eva Madeleine Unterhofer Student’s Union at mdw / mdw-alumna / Senate’s office (until June 2020) (emu)

Invited Experts

• Students of the Department of Vocal Studies and Music Theatre
• Elisabeth Brandl Working Group on Equal Opportunities
• Elisabeth Löffler Performance artist
• Rainer Prokop Department of Music Sociology
• Rosa Reitsamer Department of Music Sociology
• Angelika Silberbauer Working Group on Equal Opportunities
• Marion Thuswald Institute for Education in the Arts / Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Critical Review & Content Contributions

• Elisabeth Brandl Working Group on Equal Opportunities
• Elena Buscaino Blog Critical Diversity Blog/ Berlin University of the Arts
• Caroline Ebel Vice Rectorate for Academic Affairs and Young Artists Promotion (ce)
• Andrea Ellmeier Administrative Department of Equality, Gender Studies and Diversity (ae)
• Doris Ingrisch Department of Cultural Management and Gender Studies
• Elisabeth Löffler Performance Artist (el)
• Sophie Kindermann Department of Music and Movement Education/Rhythmics and Music Physiology
• Ulli Mayer Administrative Department of Equality, Gender Studies and Diversity (um)
• Axel Petri-Preis Department of Music Education Research, Music Didactics and Elementary Music Education (app)
• Katharina Pfennigstorf Department of Cultural Management and Gender Studies (kp)
• Angelika Silberbauer Working Group on Equal Opportunities
• Eva-Madeleine Unterhofer Senate’s Office
• Nika Zach Department of Popular Music (nz)

Process Coordinators & Content Development & Editing

• Ela Posch Coordination Office for Gender Equality, Diversity and Accessibility
• Birgit Huebener Administrative Department of Equality, Gender Studies and Diversity

Editorial Board

• Andrea Ellmeier Administrative Department of Equality, Gender Studies and Diversity
• Ulli Mayer Administrative Department of Equality, Gender Studies and Diversity

English Translation

• Josef Michael Kreutz-Soxberger
  

Webdesign

• Guilherme Maggessi

Publishers

• Barbara Gisler-Haase Vice Rectorate for Academic Affairs and Young Artists Promotion
• Gerda Müller Vice Rectorate for Organisational Development, Gender & Diversity

mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

Please fill in the contact form below or contact us directly if you have any questions regarding the webtool.

• Administrative Department of Equality, Gender Studies and Diversity (GGD)
  ggd@mdw.ac.at
  +43 1 71155-6071
  mdw.ac.at/ggd