CLUSTERS
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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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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: Working with images
In most respects, working with images (whether still or moving) is one of the older modalities of art education, but the preponderance and sheer volume of sensate triggers that presently confront the contemporary beholder call upon much more than scanning and taking in the visual field. The learning units that take on this mode of…
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Pedagogy and Criticism of Capitalism in West Berlin from 1969
WORKING GROUP: BERLIN AUTHORS: CLAUDIA HUMMEL ABSTRACT 1970, West Berlin. At the height of the Cold War, three years after the revolts staged by students, particularly in Paris, Frankfurt, and (West) Berlin, the publisher Basis Verlag started calling itself a socialist collective. The name of the publisher “Basis Verlag” unmistakably refers to the Marxist pair…
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Reconstructing the Route – Importation of German Art Educational Ideas
WORKING GROUP: HONG KONG AUTHORS: CHENG YUK LIN ABSTRACT This learning unit aims at helping the readers to get a glimpse of the big picture of the importation of German art educational ideas to China in the early 20th century. This big picture includes the importation of Western visual arts, aesthetics and art education before…
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Reengaging Freire: Decoding and Re-coding Freire’s “Generative Images” and Critical Arts Education
Image from: Institut d’action culturelle IDAC. Féminin Pluriel. De L’éducation Des Femmes. IDAC Document 21. Geneva, 1980. WORKING GROUP: GENEVA/ZURICH AUTHORS: NORA LANDKAMMER ABSTRACT How do we engage students or participants of a learning programme in a gallery in discussing an artwork in a critical and potentially emancipatory manner? This Learning Unit proposes to reflect…
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Reengaging Freire: Paulo and Elza in Geneva
WORKING GROUP: GENEVA/ZURICH AUTHORS: MICROSILLONS – MARIANNE GUARINO-HUET, OLIVIER DESVOIGNES ABSTRACT This Learning Unit offers historical information about the ten years the pedagogue Paulo Freire (1921, Recife – 1997 São Paulo), his wife Elza and their children spent in Geneva in the 1970s. It also presents four experiments, realized by autonomous gallery educators, to reinvent…
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Reflection of Practices through Dialogue with Images and Written Conversations – Activation of Archives of Popular Education
WORKING GROUP: BOGOTÁ AUTHORS: MOISÉS LONDOÑO, NICOLÁS NAVAS, MÓNICA ROMERO, LYZ TORRES, JOHN VÁSQUEZ, MIGUEL VEGA, MARCELA GARZÓN ABSTRACT This Learning Unit shows, with the help of a video we as Bogota Working Group produced, a possibility of how to put central concepts of Paulo Freire into a new and present context. We propose to…
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Maseru Working Group Collaborates with Inkanyiso (ZA) for the Rutanang Project (28 January – 1 February 2019)
Member organisations of the Maseru working group collaborated with Inkanyiso , a South African queer media and activism organisation, to co-facilitate a photography and creative writing workshop for young women. The aim of the Rutanang project was to produce a body of visual and written work on the topic of violence against women and vulnerable…