Speakers
Description
Creative languages in educational contexts open up collective processes of construction of knowledge, in which artistic practice represents an exercise of encountering otherness. The workshop originates from a research conducted in Macerata (Italy). The aim was to listen to children's and preadolescents’ perspectives on urban contexts, by mapping their favorite places using both words and images. The authors’ approach refers to Arts-Based Research and research with children through participatory drawing.
Starting from that experience, the main objective of the workshop is to experiment visual languages to open up dialogue among participants about their favorite places. Firstly, participants will be involved in a creative production through drawing. Secondly, they will be accompanied in a creative-reflexive process in which art will foster sharing, associations and interpretations in a collective way.
The workshop also aims to investigate whether, starting from personal experiences, connections are developed towards the community dimension of caring of environments.
CV
Miriam Cuccu
is an expert on General and Social Pedagogy and a PhD student in the Course of Education, Cultural Heritage and Territories at University of Macerata (Italy). Her research is focused on a participatory research, between Italy and Kenya, about children’s access to educational opportunities and the impact of arts-based practices to promote inclusion. She is involved in local, national and international projects in the field of intercultural education, countering educational poverty and tutoring teachers in training courses. Her main research interests include the dialogue among cultures on a decolonial perspective, and community participation paths through an arts-based approach.
Francesca Mondin
has a Master Degree in Pedagogical Sciences at University of Macerata (Italy). She works as a tutor and teaching assistant in General and Community Pedagogy at the University. She has participated in international and national research projects concerning Art from an educational and intercultural perspective. She is also a pedagogist and an educator in third-sector organisations. She worked on outdoor and natural education and she also has been involved in the qualitative monitoring of educational interventions in collaboration with University of Macerata. In Palermo, she deals both with education for disadvantaged young people, and with activism and performative-art.
Rosita Deluigi
is Associate Professor of Education at University of Macerata (Italy), where she teaches General, Community and Intercultural Pedagogy. She is a Marie Curie Fellow Researcher at Pwani University and at Kenyatta University (Kenya). Her research interests concern dialogue between cultures, generations and communities through participatory and creative methodologies. She has published numerous articles and scientific reports of international projects on the use of art as a way to create interactions and foster inclusion through plural languages. She is an expert in qualitative research, particularly action-research/collaborative research in highly complex socio-cultural contexts, with multiple formal institutions and community organisations.
