Im-mediacions (Im-mediations) was a collaborative working group that brought together 4 local cultural spaces (Graner, Bàscula, Inefable, and AMCL) to reflect on the intersections between culture, arts, education, and territory within the Caixa d’Eines Program of the Pla de Barris de la Marina. Im-mediacions was a project by artefactum in collaboration with the Caixa d’Eines Program of the Pla de Barris de la Marina. Four practical sessions were held with the coordinators of the spaces (La Bàscula, El Graner, La Inefable, and AMCL), and a joint session with the educational centers enrolled in the Caixa d’Eines 2020-21 program. Each session had one of the spaces as the hosting venue.
The project was designed as a collaborative space to reflect on proximity policies and aesthetics to build links with educational communities through the design and creation of mediation spaces. The program aimed to rethink the spaces and times of the community, mobilize the imaginaries and grammars of mediation in arts and education, and shift the inertia of the cultural consumption model (supply/demand, resources, products, and instrumental relationships) toward an ecology of collaborative practices in the La Marina neighborhood.
What common subjects and themes exist between education, art, and culture? What kind of relationships are established from the cultural sector with educational communities? How to work on the quality of relationships during the pandemic? How to question the cultural consumption paradigm through co-designing mediation spaces? How to promote a cultural and educational ecology in the La Marina neighborhood based on collaborative practices that involve diverse communities in the creation of spaces for meeting and conversation?
Artefactum is a collective formed by Esther Blázquez and David Pérez that moves between live arts, education, and critical thinking. Their proposals explore the capacity of the arts to develop artifices, devices, and situations that interrogate the present—cultural, social, educational—opening spaces for invention and fostering processes of multiple, situated, and transversal learning.
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