Re-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 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 […]
A 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 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 […]
Education 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 in Bangkok - through the lens of art education and art mediation tools geared towards neuro and sensory diversity which are being used to draw […]
Fixed 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 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 […]
Art 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 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 […]
Narrare 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 off-format and installations with solutions of fruition designed for the context in which it operates. In addition to its productions, LeleMarcojanni over the years collaborated […]
Toccare 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 space where you can return to feel good and spend time in the company with art. A place without barriers inhabited by students, families, associations, […]
Institutional 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 communities. The seminar shares case examples and their local and international impact to situate the discussion at the intersection of social, educational, and cultural discourses […]
‘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 bridges helps in embedding communities, groups and individuals into the museum as a space of collective growth and learning? Sharing examples and case studies from […]
Il 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 reached out and welcomed inside their public, from the Ronchey law onwards and passing by how and why Accogliere Ad Arte was born. The participants […]
EDI 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, sustainability, and accessibility to be addressed collectively through transcultural methodologies. This Agora will be in English language
The 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 will think through the role of this institution, based in a popular neighborhood and running several co-creative programs indoors, but also turned towards the local […]
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