Class Public Space and Community

Optional UC aimed at introducing students to: the specificities of participatory and/or community-based artistic practices; recent artistic practices in the field of Participatory, Collaborative, Dialogical and Community Art; artistic methodologies geared towards intervention in public space; as well as conceptual and creative tools in community projects. Ultimately, the main objective is to create an artistic project in public space or with the community, which may be an installation, painting, performance, video or other appropriately contextualised media.

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1 - Participatory Art, Collaborative Art, Dialogic Art, Community Art. Concepts and definitions. 2 - Participatory Art, Collaborative Art, Dialogic Art, Community Art. Case studies and investigation. 3 - Creation and development of a community arts project.

Diversified teaching methodologies, considering the teacher as a creator of learning situations and the student as the main protagonist of their knowledge-building process: 1. Introductory lessons on the program content using audiovisual media; 2. Participant observation, both in the context of the artistic interventions identified as case studies and where the student proposes to carry out the final project. The student must record the information gathered in a research diary. 3. Project methodology - considering identifying a problem, investigating, searching for solutions, experimenting with the various solutions, and developing a final proposal (community art project). The student must record the creative process in the research diary and other appropriate media. 4. Tutorial guidance in creating and developing a community art project.

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