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Changing Places
WORKING GROUP: MANILA AUTHORS: EILEEN LEGASPI-RAMIREZ, MARY ANN JOSETTE PERNIA, IRIS ANGELA FERRER, BON HENRYK CORACHEA ABSTRACT Art’s power to enable a reimagination of the present is behind the possibly utopic title of this Learning Unit. By inviting you to think about what could happen when visual relations are reshaped within a picture frame, we…
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Decolonising Literacy with Critical Pedagogy
WORKING GROUP: MASERU AUTHORS: BA RE E NE RE LITERARY ARTS : LINEO SEGOETE, ZACHARY ROSEN ABSTRACT This Learning Unit is intended to provide activity plans for students or other learners in late primary to high school, though they can be shared with any group of people with moderate literacy skills. The activities may be…
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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…
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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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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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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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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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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…