Conveners
Session 4: Arts & Identity
- Nick Poulakis (NKUA)
Session 4: Arts & Nature
- Aspasia Dania (NKUA)
Session 4: Panel / Art Based Presentation
- There are no conveners in this block
Session 4: Panels
- There are no conveners in this block
Session 4: Theatre & Environment
- Clio Fanouraki (NKUA)
Session 4: ARTS & SUSTAINABILITY
- ELISSAVET PERAKAKI
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Ioanna Mendrinou (University of the Peloponnese)18/10/2024, 09:30
Although theater alone cannot change the world, it can nevertheless contribute to the awareness and activation of wider audiences by inviting them to adopt a conscious and responsible attitude towards themselves, others and the environment. The contribution of the present study lies in the study and presentation of Greek theatrical and dramatic production with the theme of promoting...
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Mousumi De (University of Redlands)18/10/2024, 09:30
This paper describes an art-based critical pedagogy applied to preservice teachers. Utilizing visual thinking strategies and critical literacy, candidates analyzed a mural's content, exploring sociopolitical aspects, global contexts, and social justice issues. Initially relying on first impressions, they progressed to critical observation, and questioning socio-cultural, racial, and political...
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Marc Fritzsche (University of Kaiserslautern-Landau), Marie Johanna Trautmann (University of Kaiserslautern-Landau), Vella Raphael (University of Malta), Victoria Pavlou (Frederick University)18/10/2024, 09:30
Can we use art to improve the world and its social and environmental problems? To get closer to this somewhat exaggerated question, our panel will explore different principles and goals of sustainability and develop possibilities for art-based education for sustainable development. In times of climate crisis, the principle of sustainability is an important way of dealing with current global...
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Angeliki Triantafyllaki (NKUA), D-A. Koloventzos (NKUA), E.-N. Thomopoulou (NKUA), I. Drosou (NKUA), James Humberstone (University of Sydney), M. Barka-Tsiligkaridou (NKUA), P. ฮtinou (NKUA), Smaragda Chrysostomou (NKUA), Yannis Malafis (NKUA)18/10/2024, 09:30
During the Fall Semester of 2023-24, a hybrid, interdisciplinary undergraduate course was piloted at the Department of (anonymised). Collaboration of university tutors, a composer/researcher and a Greek Australian poet and rap artist, resulted in the delivery of a 12-week creative composition module, which culminated in a student presentation of creative musical processes and outputs. Course...
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Gianna Gkioni (University of the Peloponnese)18/10/2024, 09:30
The project Shared Landscapes was curated by Caroline Barneaud (Thรฉรขtre Vidy-Lausanne) and Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll) and was presented in Lausanne, Avignon, and Berlin in 2023. Shared Landscapes is basically an invitation by seven artists from all artistic disciplines to the audience, asking them to spend a full day in the forest and participate into artistic works that attempt to...
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7. Transforming Art Education: A Critique and Proposal for Sustainable Art Pedagogy in Greek SchoolsEleni Kartsaka (AUTH), Sofia Chaita (University of the Aegean)18/10/2024, 09:30
This paper delves into critical issues in Greek art education, centering on the transformative potential of the New Visual Arts Curricula for Secondary Education. Drawing from influential theorists like Dewey, Freire, Vygotsky, Deleuze, and Guattari, the authors advocate for a paradigm shift towards inclusive and participatory art experiences. The theoretical foundation challenges traditional...
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Danielle Hradsky (Deakin University), Jo Raphael (Deakin University), Peta J. White (Deakin University), Robin Bellingham (Deakin University), Shelley Hannigan (Deakin University)18/10/2024, 09:50
This paper shares the design and outcomes from a research project whereby students from schools in Australia, worked with their teachers to envisage and create artefacts of the future (2050). The research question was, โHow can young people be engaged and empowered to consider creative and embodied futures thinking to generate sustainable living choices and practices now?โ. Teachers were...
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Helena Koroลกec (University of Ljubljana), Nuลกa Jurjeviฤ (University of Ljubljana), Vesna Gerลกak (University of Ljubljana)18/10/2024, 09:50
We present the pilot course The Arts for Coexistence in a Sustainable Society, which was implemented at the Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana in 2023/2024. We focused on sustainable themes, the role of the arts in a society and (creative) active citizenship of young adults. We explored through artistic experiences: soundscape, the fine art lab, the creation of dance miniatures,...
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Aikaterini Delikonstantinidou (NKUA)18/10/2024, 09:50
Drawing on the discourse surrounding third-wave ecotheatre, this paper discusses ecodramaturgies constitutive of works such as Lucy+Jorge Ortaโs Symphony of Absent Wildlife (beginning in 2014), Violeta Lunaโs NK603: Action for Performer & e-Maiz (2014), and Chantal Bilodeauโs Sila (2015). Next, it attempts to show why and how the ecodramaturgies found therein may ally with and inform...
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Athanasios Verdis (NKUA)18/10/2024, 09:50
The crisis of representation in cultural theory has given rise to alternative forms of qualitative writing and a diversity of art-based forms of inquiry that are embodied, multi-voiced, and co-constructed. In that context, the purpose of the current paper is to see theoretical and methodological possibilities in exploring I and Me positions in the performative elements of a number of...
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Cristina Trigo-Martinez (University of Santiago de Compostela)18/10/2024, 10:10
Understanding the city as a space of coexistence implies an ethical and aesthetic positioning and means changing the established dynamics. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development calls for quality education in which students acquire the theoretical and practical knowledge necessary to face today's challenges. The project Art with the Environment: Living and Learning carried out with...
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Konstantinos Marougkas (NKUA)18/10/2024, 10:10
The study of the relationship between humans and the natural environment is a diverse field. Ecocriticism, among other movements, has studied this relationship for decades. Recently, ecocriticism has been identified in the performing arts field. In Greece, students are engaged with theatre as part of their education, as Theatre Education is part of the national curriculum. This qualitative...
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Estrella Soto Moreno (University of Jaรฉn), Marรญa Isabel Moreno Montoro (University of Jaรฉn), Marรญa Lorena Cueva Ramรญrez (University of Jaรฉn)18/10/2024, 10:10
We present part of the results of the research project Olive grove, body, identity and territory, subsidized by the Institute of Giennese Studies of the Provincial Council of Jaรฉn, Spain. The research addresses the current situation, and, therefore, the changes that have occurred, in the economic and social situation of women in the rural world, specifically in the olive cultive culture, as I...
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Costas Mantzalos (Frederick University)18/10/2024, 10:10
This paper revolves around the role of contemporary art and its significance for the art world as well as the general social sphere, with a special emphasis on the artistic processes and practices of the TWO|FOUR|TWO art group. The TWO|FOUR|TWO art group uses appropriation and anagrammatism to transmit concepts about consumerism, greed and megalomania. The groupโs oeuvre relates to several of...
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Anita Sinner (University of British Columbia), Congmao Li (Hiroshima University), Elly Yazdanpanah (University of British Columbia), Patricia Osler (Independent/Concordia University), Samia El Sheikh (Helwan University), Susana Vargas (MAMBO)18/10/2024, 10:30
Higher education is a priority area for reform globally, as the pandemic has highlighted how postsecondary institutions are fragile and inaccessible, and require reconceptualization to build community resilience and social cohesion for next-generation learners. The purpose of this panel is to explore how arts-sci-tech immersive learning activations operate as iterative, open systems in higher...
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Lydia Atubeh (Indiana University Bloomington/DeKalb Early College Academy)18/10/2024, 10:30
In recent times, art teachers have increasingly encountered students who are refugees in the local vicinity of their educational institution, often due to political unrest and conflicts in various nations. Some of these students have endured persecution on account of their religious convictions. Pew Research Center (2020) has determined that as of 2018 Christians faced persecution in 145...
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Angela Saldanha (APECV), Anita Sinner (University of British Columbia), Celia Ferreira (APECV), Christiana Afrikaner (Ministry of Sports Arts and Culture), Flavia Liberman (UNIFESP), Maria Vassiliadou (Frederick University), Martha Patricia Espรญritu Zavalza (University of Guadalajara), Petra Iris Grabowski (Free University of Bozen/Bolzano), Rita Irwin (University of British Columbia), Steve Willis (Missouri State University), Teresa Torres de Eca (APECV), Viviane Maximino18/10/2024, 10:30
Arts and crafts are asked to bring greater contribution to the implementation of UN sustainable development goal 3 โ โgood health and wellbeingโ and to work interdisciplinary. From our experience, we believe that artists, art educators and cultural workers can work together with social workers to maintain hope and care and create safe spaces of wellbeing. In this performance base paper we...
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Jesรบs Caballero Caballero (Jaรฉn University), Pedro Ernesto Moreno Garcรญa (University of Granada)18/10/2024, 10:30
Our intervention in this session aims to report on the results of a project involving audiovisual narratives that seek to recover the memory of the LGTBIQ+ community. These outcomes are presented as tools, resources, and teaching strategies for addressing audiovisual culture in future Primary Education teachers at the University of Jaรฉn. This proposal outlines the working methodology through...
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Clio Fanouraki (NKUA)18/10/2024, 10:30
This proposed paper will present the dramatized experience of approaching an excerpt from Dyan Sheldon's internationally successful illustrated book "The Whalesโ Song", taken from the anthology of texts for primary school, for students aged 9-10 years, in the context of theatre pedagogical training, for students of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Theatre Studies in Greece, drama...
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Lisbet Skregelid (University of Agder)18/10/2024, 10:30
By referring to the book Dissens and Sensibility: Why Art Matters I will in this paper present what I call pedagogy of dissensus, which is an educational approach informed by the ambivalent and dissensual characteristics of art. In the paper I describe how the situation caused by COVID-19 turned out to be a major interruption and led to the artwork My stunning stream - Made with a little...
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Estrella Soto Moreno (Jaรฉn University), Jesรบs Caballero Caballero (Jaรฉn University), Maria Isabel Moreno Montoro (Jaรฉn University), Marรญa Lorena Cueva Ramรญrez (Jaรฉn University), Pedro Ernestฮฟ Morenฮฟ Garcia (University of Granada)18/10/2024, 10:50
We present a sound performance about change of the sound landscape in the field work with olive trees. This action is part of the Olive grove, body, identity and territory project, subsidized by the Giennese Studies Institute of the Jaรฉn Provincial Council, which carries out a study on the situation of women in the olive culture. But the results not only respond to that objective, but also...
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Serenity Wise (University of Auckland)18/10/2024, 10:50
Examining four community dance groups in Aotearoa/New Zealand, this presentation will share the most common practices that remain critical to the sustainability of each group, and the role that community dance groups play in the lives of their participants and their broader localities. While community dance groups are understood as creative and informal spaces for art education, their...
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Elvira Soto Moreno (Cordoba University), Pedro Ernesto Moreno Garcรญa (University of Granada)18/10/2024, 10:50
In this performance that integrates visual, dramatic, and sonic languages, Elvira and Pedro Ernesto carry out an adaptation of the original play "Koroneiki: a critical musical theater piece about the land and olive trees." In this performance, a critique of the current situation of super-intensive crops is approached from an ecological perspective, specifically focusing on the environment from...
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Nick Poulakis (NKUA)18/10/2024, 10:50
The utilization of the audiovisual essay as a medium for investigating studentsโ perspectives in contemporary film theory and analysis provides an up-to-date, unique, and immersive approach to understanding the intricate dynamics at play with the educational components of the relative disciplines. The proposed paper aims at delving into key aspects of this exploration, examining the...
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