For the period from 1996 to 2015, 803 individual projects with 12,891 project hours are documented. As far as their geographical distribution is concerned, project participants, i.e. schools and artists, can be found in all eleven districts and the three independent cities of the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt. Focusing on the local and municipal level, it can be stated that a total of 252 schools from 133 locations in 81 municipalities and 140 artists from 36 locations in 31 municipalities have participated in the project over the first twenty years.
The two zoomable map overviews linked below visualize the locations and activities of the individual project stakeholders and their relationships to each other.
Various interactive widgets can be used to customize both views, i.e. layers can be shown or hidden or filtered according to certain criteria. By clicking on the map points, you can also call up numerous other details on the respective project participants, such as location, number of hours and individual projects, years of participation, etc. The participating schools are presented as accurately as possible, while the artists are only presented anonymously, summarized and by zip code.
The density of individual projects is particularly high in the first years of the project, falls rapidly in 2003 and then levels off at a continuously fluctuating or declining level. However, the number of hours will remain almost constant from 2003. The number of hours allocated to individual projects is therefore increasing, which can certainly be seen as an intensification of the partnerships.
The next chart only shows the confirmed numbers of artists, schools and individual projects for the individual years. Here, the relationship between the project stakeholders is quite varied and inconsistent. However, there is an almost unbroken tendency for individual artists and schools to occasionally realize several projects per year.
As mentioned at the beginning, the project has reached all districts and independent cities in Saxony-Anhalt in its twenty years of existence. However, if we look at the distribution of projects by year, a much more differentiated picture emerges. A creeping unequal distribution, which results primarily from the concentration of artists in the conurbations of Halle, Magdeburg and Halberstadt, becomes particularly noticeable in the years from 2009 onwards.
(for the areas highlighted in light gray, no data is available for the corresponding years; see database)
If we go back to the district level and look at the spatial distribution of project participants, it becomes abundantly clear that the city of Halle clearly leads the field in terms of both the number of participating schools and artists. It is also apparent that the structurally weak districts in the north of Saxony-Anhalt in particular are underrepresented. One of the reasons for this is the project’s limited travel budget, which makes it difficult to place artists in schools far away from urban centers. This circumstance was also repeatedly criticized by the project management during the course of the project (see history).
However, the situation is not that serious after all. If you look at the distance ratios of all projects in the individual years, it becomes clear, for example, that a whole range of artists repeatedly travel considerable distances to realize projects with schools that are far away from them. It is noticeable, however, that the majority of individual projects come about in close proximity to one another. The average distance between artists and schools over all years is 15.6 km. The following overview illustrates this.
