Agorà
Through its curated programming of digital panel discussions and forums for debate, the Agorá of EDI dynamically links art education departments and initiatives across the world to develop new digital tools for art mediation, promoting the social role of the museum as an instrument of well-being and cultural participation.
Participation in Agorá is free and more information about each scheduled Agorá session and its topics and speakers can be found below. Archives of past Agorá sessions can be found on EDI’s Research Lab.
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Latest Past Events
EDI GLOBAL FORUM NAPLES 2023
The second edition of EDI Global Forum will be held in Naples from 24 to 27 October 2023 and it will bring together professionals from museums, institutions, no profit spaces, […]
Shape the future of museums. Will they be for everyone?
a conversation with Maria Chiara Ciaccheri / Museologist Anne Taylor Brittingham / Deputy Director for Education and Responsive Learning Spaces at Phillips Collection In today's uncertain times where are museums […]
The museum, the neighbourhood, and the housing crisis
a conversation with Anna Chiara Cimoli /Università degli studi di Bergamo/MUBIG Ana Kutleša and Dunja Kučinac / BLOK - Local base for culture refreshment Today, the participatory agenda has become […]
Past events
EDI GLOBAL FORUM NAPLES 2023
The second edition of EDI Global Forum will be held in Naples from 24 to 27 October 2023 and it will bring together professionals from museums, institutions, no profit spaces,
October 24, 2023 @ 8:00 am - October 27, 2023 @ 11:30 pmShape the future of museums. Will they be for everyone?
a conversation with Maria Chiara Ciaccheri / Museologist Anne Taylor Brittingham / Deputy Director for Education and Responsive Learning Spaces at Phillips Collection In today’s uncertain times where are museums
June 28, 2023 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pmThe museum, the neighbourhood, and the housing crisis
a conversation with Anna Chiara Cimoli /Università degli studi di Bergamo/MUBIG Ana Kutleša and Dunja Kučinac / BLOK – Local base for culture refreshment Today, the participatory agenda has become
May 22, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pmEDI Global Forum Naples 2022
EDI Global Forum’s inaugural convening in Naples from 11-14 October 2022 brings together professionals representing over 150 institutions actively working with education through the lens of art and culture for
October 11, 2022 @ 8:00 pm - October 14, 2022 @ 1:00 pmParliament of GHOSTS
In Tamale in the north of Ghana, far from the national capital Accra, Ibrahim Mahama has built a series of art initiatives that have young people and education as their
June 28, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pmWhat does it mean to be close to the community these days?
The Blyzkist Group (Taras Gembik, Mariia Beburia and Olga Mzhelskaya) since 2020 is responsible for the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw’s public programme turning to the Ukrainian-and Russian-speaking audience
June 14, 2022 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pmCross-Cultural Approaches to Youth Oriented Educational Programming
This Agora Session brings together two institutions that are developing new audiences for contemporary art in Indonesia, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia: Museum MACAN and Art Jameel. Learning is at
May 31, 2022 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pmOctopus Toolbox
Octopus Toolbox è un progetto del Dipartimento per l’Educazione Preventiva del MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, realizzato in collaborazione con RUFA – Rome University of Fine Arts. Octopus
May 26, 2022 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pmEDI Fellows Session
In this Agora session, EDI Fellows, comprised of 30 emerging practitioners engaging with art and education from around the world, will resume the conversation started on the 12th of April.
May 24, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pmRipartiamo dalle Didascalie Parlanti
The expression “Talking captions” refers to the seminar activities the final year students of the University of Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’ engaged with, within their History of Contemporary Art degree, in
May 16, 2022 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pmDeconstructing Values-based BUZZWORDS
In this Agora event, Futuress co-directors Maya Ober and Nina Paim will discuss the broadly understood notion of diversity, looking particularly at a series of articles published by the platform
May 10, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmTOCCARE L’ARTE – workshop onsite
26-27.04.2022 FONDAZIONE MORRA GRECO TOCCARE L’ARTE (Touching Art), a new way to enjoy contemporary art, curated by Annalisa Trasatti, coordinator of the Omero State Tactile Museum in Ancona. To participate
April 26, 2022 @ 2:30 pm - April 27, 2022 @ 1:00 pmThe ATOMIUM as a prism for EMPATHIC mediation
The ATOMIUM as a prism for EMPATHIC mediation, with Laure Goemans, from WIELS Contemporary Art Center Laure Goemans is the mediator at WIELS Contemporary art center in Brussels. This session
April 26, 2022 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pmEDI Fellows Session
In this Agora session, EDI Fellows comprised of 30 emerging practitioners engaging with art and education from around the world will think through and identity barriers to diversity and inclusion,
April 12, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pmIl concetto di Accoglienza dai Musei al territorio
The talk will make people reflect on the concepts of welcoming within and outside of Museums. The goal here is to introduce the main study lines of how museums have
April 12, 2022 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm‘One and Three Ideas’ for Museum and Art Education
This session thinks through the role of art education in a contemporary art museum, beyond formal academic institutions. How informality of encounters in a museum, with artists as mediators and
April 5, 2022 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pmInstitutional Agility Enhancing Collective Support – Case Studies by Pivô (São Paulo) and Para Site (Hong Kong)
This Agora Seminar brings together examples from Brazil and Hong Kong to explore how institutional agility can redistribute resources and energy towards the building of collective support for vulnerable artistic
March 29, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pmToccare l’Arte – L’esperienza del Museo Tattile Statale Omero di Ancona
Touching for us is still and always be essential! This is the only museum in the world where art meets touch, sight, thoughts and creates a sensation called wonder. A
March 24, 2022 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pmNarrare o morire
A meeting focused on the practice and on the different approaches to the narration of reality. LeleMarcojanni is a group of authors that deals with narrations through audiovisual, declined in
March 16, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmArt and Climate Change
With an eye to how sustainability translates into concerted action on climate, spatial, and social justice, this session invites curators, gallerists, designers, and community organizers to share various approaches and
December 16, 2021 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pmFixed Place: A Participatory Project between Art, Vulnerability, and Citizenship
Fixed place is a project financed by Comune di Bergamo and Fondazione della Comunità Bergamasca, designed in collaboration between GAMeC, Cooperativa Namastè onlus and Fondazione Opera Bonomelli onlus. Fixed Place
December 16, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pmEducation Oriented Tours of Two of the Newest Museum Spaces of 2021 – GES-2 (Moscow) and the New Jim Thompson Art Center (Bangkok)
This session will introduce us to two of the world’s newest infrastructures for art and culture – GES-2 in Moscow and the new building of the Jim Thompson Art Centre
December 16, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 amA più voci – With Many Voices
With Many Voices offers people living with Alzheimer’s Disease the opportunity to express themselves through art and proposes a model for communication that is still possible. In urging people to
December 15, 2021 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pmRe-inventing Presence. Strategies of Engagement Across and Through the Pandemic
Everything suddenly changed due to the pandemic crisis: we were forced into our homes, living apart and learning to work and live differently. We’re still suffering. Space, time, and relationships
December 15, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmArt Education and New Technologies
This panel brings together innovators in the space of technology to address how new networks enabled by unprecedented digital connectivity can power new publics to engage with education and art.
December 15, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 amArtists and Transversal Pedagogy
Art is a space of freedom; a space to traverse the many limitations society imposes on people. From Petrit Halilaj, who encountered art making as a teenager in a refugee
December 14, 2021 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pmDecolonising the Canon
This panel unites educators who question and work to update systems that do not give ample weight to histories of culture in contexts such as Africa, Asia, Latin America, and
December 14, 2021 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pmEducating about Beauty and Promoting Social Inclusion: The Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents Migrating Objects
On the occasion of the exhibition Migrating Objects. Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, the museum offers activities based on translanguaging pedagogy to anyone
December 14, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pmIntroduction + Taking Institutional Values Outside of the Institution – Promoting Accessibility, Diversity and Inclusion, and Sustainability Through Art and Education
Introduction to EDI Global Forum and EDI Ambassadors Maurizio Morra Greco (President) Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, Italy Alessandra Drioli (Head of Programmes) Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, Italy Diana Campbell (International
December 14, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pmConnecting Across Generations And Cultures Through Art And Education
This Agora Session will explore how art institutions connect across cultural and generational backgrounds by developing innovative programming enabling children and their families to engage with difference through art. In
November 23, 2021 @ 9:00 am - 1:00 pmStorytelling and Reframing Museum Collections
“Ventriloquism seems to be akin to the logic of the encyclopedic museum, in which objects are speaking on behalf of an entire culture, age, or region. Issues of identity, embodiment,
November 16, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmDe-Privileging And Re-Privileging Senses In Art Institutions
This Agora session brings together three examples where artistic interventions have pushed past the singular sense of the visual in the visual arts to engage a world that people navigate
November 9, 2021 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmDigital Translations Across Contexts And Cultures
How can digital platforms and networks translate across different definitions of what culture is, and different digital infrastructures and penetration rates? In this Agora, design strategist and UK based strategy
November 5, 2021 @ 3:00 pm - 6:00 pmTroubleshooting the Challenges to True Accessibility in Art Education
EDI exists to build a dialog between institutions and professionals working to dismantle barriers between the public and art through considering new approaches to art education. Class is a clear
October 26, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pmOpening Access: Enabling and Engaging First Time Encounters with Art Institutions
The Morra Greco Foundation is pleased to present the first online discussion panel of the EDI Global Forum for Education and Integration project. The session will connect two case studies
October 20, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm