Introduction + Taking Institutional Values Outside of the Institution – Promoting Accessibility, Diversity and Inclusion, and Sustainability Through Art and Education

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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 Relations) EDI Project at Fondazione Morra Greco Naples, Italy; (Artistic Director) Samdani Art Foundation, (Chief Curator) Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh Webinar From opening up […]

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Educating about Beauty and Promoting Social Inclusion: The Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents Migrating Objects

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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 with a migrant background. Thanks to this educational approach, the program promotes plurilingualism, facilitates intercultural dialogue and favors empowerment, proposing an inclusive and intercultural vision. […]

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Decolonising the Canon

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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 Oceania relative to North American and European frameworks of viewing the world. What if these contexts held keys to overcoming so many contemporary challenges of […]

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Artists and Transversal Pedagogy

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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 camp in Albania and transforms this experience through his practice to shed light on deliberately obscured histories, to Ahmed Ogut who amplifies the knowledge and […]

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Art Education and New Technologies

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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. Featuring the Education of Indonesia, who prior to taking public office, founded Gojek, an on-demand multi-service and digital payment technology platform, an educator in Bangladesh […]

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Re-inventing Presence. Strategies of Engagement Across and Through the Pandemic

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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 as we knew them no longer exist. The sense of physical presence in museums, artistic institutions and events was suddenly not allowed, changing how we […]

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A più voci – With Many Voices

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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 resort to their imagination rather than to their memory, to their creativity rather than to their logical and cognitive capabilities, we enhance each participant’s ability […]

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Education Oriented Tours of Two of the Newest Museum Spaces of 2021 – GES-2 (Moscow) and the New Jim Thompson Art Center (Bangkok)

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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 in Bangkok - through the lens of art education and art mediation tools geared towards neuro and sensory diversity which are being used to draw […]

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Fixed Place: A Participatory Project between Art, Vulnerability, and Citizenship

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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 consists of 40 workshops for elderly people aged 65 onwards as well as healthy people and people living with Alzheimer’s Disease, as well as 40 […]

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Art and Climate Change

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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 perspectives of how to institutionalize sustainability as a value, speaking to the role that art education can play in addressing our shared global concern about […]

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