Troubleshooting 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 and challenging barrier when it comes to art education – even if scholarships are available, how do we reach potential newcomers to the field of […]
Digital 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 lead at Google, Suhair Khan, will share learnings from her work on the Google Arts and Culture platform with examples from the Global South – […]
De-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 using a diversity of sensory abilities. The panelists will discuss how museums and art institutions can increase accessibility by expanding how we think about sensory […]
Connecting 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 this case study, the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane’s public engagement strategies and their children’s art centre have engaged artists from across the […]
Introduction + 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 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 […]
Educating 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 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. […]
Decolonising 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 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 […]
Artists 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 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 […]
Art 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. 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 […]
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 […]
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