UNIDADES DE APRENDIZAJE HISTORIAS ENTRELAZADAS
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Path: “The artist” – “the child” – “the native”
This path is based on research into the discursive co-constitution of the triad of “the artist” – “the child” – “the native” and its historical connections to colonialism and mechanisms of exclusion. This triad relies on a gaze which is characterized by a simultaneous act of othering and idealization: it admires those who have not…
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Path: Reflexive Pedagogies/Critical Literacies
The Learning Units designed by the Kampala, Zurich and Maseru working groups emanate from different working contexts though they are related as kin in that each of them deploys exercises to encourage participants to understand that the texts and media we confront in our lives are never neutral, rather they are imbued with particular positionalities,…
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Activating Archives Through Radical Methods
WORKING GROUP: LONDON AUTHORS: JANNA GRAHAM, EVAN IFEKOYA, RAISA KABIR, RUDY LOEWE AND RAJU RAGE ABSTRACT This Learning Unit is concerned with decolonising art educations, unlearning histories that replicate the colonial gaze, re-formatting our own art educations and a re-positioning of this canon by centring artists and cultural producers of colour. We are focused on…
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Path: Letterwriting
How do we conceive of ‘the letter’ as both a personal and a public, collective thing? What would a letter be, if it was liberated from its literary genre? Can a song/poster/manifesto/banner be considered a letter? These Learning Units consider the losses and benefits of a letter in the expanded form. By Rangoato Hlasane FOLLOW…
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Path: Critical Pedagogy and its critiques
Critical pedagogy, aiming for learning as liberation and an interrogation of societal structures, is a common reference point for engaged art educators. This path invites you to engage with a range of historical references of critical pedagogies and their relevance in current practices. The learning units, beyond introducing historical and contemporary concepts, aim to discuss…
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Path: Archival Activism
As I understand it, one of the founding research aims of the Another Roadmap network was to critically assess the continuing hegemony of a colonial Westernised Arts Education and through a praxis of deconstruction, to create spaces for the imagining and the realisation of alternative paradigms, and for paying due recognition to alternatives already realised.…
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How to Work with Archives that are “Not There”? Engaging Medu Art Ensemble in the Now
WORKING GROUP: JOHANNESBURG AUTHORS: PULENG PLESSIE AND RANGOATO HLASANE ABSTRACT This Learning Unit is concerned with the politics of archival access or how to work with archives that are ‘not there’. The central story of the Johannesburg Working Group (JWG) is the Medu Art Ensemble (Medu), a collective of informal members; most of them exiled…
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Experiments in Injecting Critical Readings of the History of Arts and Design Education into an Introductory Course in Publication Design
WORKING GROUP: KAMPALA AUTHORS: KITTO DERRICK WINTERGREEN AND EMMA WOLUKAU-WANAMBWA ABSTRACT This learning unit was designed for use by 1 st year diploma level visual communication students at a tertiary-level art and design school in Uganda. Its aim was to introduce the students to publication design (as specified in the curriculum) while at the same…