Event

Open class: artistic practices for socio-spatial transformation

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Rocío Vela Jiménez (Universidad Loyola Andalucía) prepared an open class on artistic practices for socio-spatial transformation, which will take place on March 5, 2024, at 5:00 pm.

María del Rocío Vela Jiménez is a Social Worker, with a degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology, a Master’s degree in Human Rights, Interculturality and Development, and a PhD in Inclusive and Sustainable Development. Rocío Vela develops her professional career in the area of ​​Social and Community Intervention, with different groups and contexts in situations of social exclusion. She worked in the field of International Development Cooperation in several countries in Latin America and Central America. She is currently a researcher and professor at the Universidad Loyola Andalucía, where she is part of the Department of Humanities and Philosophy and the Institute for Research in Policies for Social Transformation, and teaches at the Faculty of Communication and Arts. Her research work is part of strengthening local development processes in disadvantaged neighborhoods in Andalusia.

Rocío Vela is currently a visiting researcher at CIAC (January/February 2024), supervised by Sílvia Leiria Viegas, for the development of a draft teaching innovation project. In this open class, the speaker presents her research and teaching work in the field of sociology, arts and social transformation.

In addition to aesthetic appreciation, art here becomes an agent of social transformation in processes aimed at citizen participation and action. Thus, we speak of artistic mediation when art aims to help generate processes of inclusion and community development, using any artistic language: visual arts, music, theater, dance, etc. Different benefits are generated through art, whether personal or group. People’s participation is promoted in solving problems that require transformation, so that they can live a more dignified life.

In this webinar, through the experience of a neighborhood considered disadvantaged in a city in Andalusia, Spain, we will explore how art, specifically photography and cinema, favors the recovery of the history of this neighborhood based on the narratives of the neighbors themselves. The starting point is, therefore, historical memory to destigmatize and make visible a reality that, in general, has always been told by others, and not by its protagonists. The objective is for young people in the neighborhood to receive what their community tells them to transform their future, and promote human development processes centered on territories and people.

Esta atividade realiza-se através da plataforma Zoom, sem inscrição obrigatória, estando limitada ao número de vagas disponíveis.

The class will be recorded for a publicly accessible digital archive, within the framework of the research project: Refugee Research for (Post)Covid-19. National Measures and Local Actions in the Algarve: A Digital Tour for Access to Adequate Housing and Living Conditions. https://doi.org/10.54499/2021.03008.CEECIND/CP1672/CT0008.

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