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This text presents the results of an arts-practice-based work project, carried out with students from higher, basic and secondary education, in close collaboration between themselves and with a local community and developed as part of the research project - IMAGO MUNDI. In this scope, our project proposal was to develop arts-practice-based research processes, within the field of the visual arts, assuming as key concepts the ones of cartography and psychogeography. Departing from the mentioned concepts and aiming to address the links between school, artistic practices and community, a set of activities (as school subject or extracurricular in nature) were designed and carried out. Our aim was the development of creative processes, which, by means of arts-practice-based research, with and within the community, were able to assume the territory as its locus, thus enabling the construction of visions of the world arising from the experience (be it perceptive/sensory, social, cultural, emotional…) of the territory. Considering the intentionality of developing processes of participatory and collaborative nature, involving students, teachers and the community, the project assumed local memory as a general framework, bringing together 380 students, 10 teachers from various levels of education and 34 local retailers and shopkeepers. As mentioned above and considering the will to decentralize and integrate knowledge epistemologies, the project was developed in a city located in the south of Portugal (Santiago do Cacém). It mobilised and has involved students and teachers from the Visual Arts and Technology degree of the Lisbon’s Polytechnic University of Education; students, teachers and a resident artist from Manuel da Fonseca High School (MFHS) in Santiago do Cacém; technicians from the City Council and local retailers and shopkeepers —being the project, as the last stage of the process, devolved to and appropriated by the local community. Through exploratory visits into the territory and the developments arising from several interactions (in the form of direct dialogues) between various actors, it was decided that the project would take the form of an intervention in urban space. It would start from a
mapping of human and cultural dimensions of local commerce.
The analysis of the contents gathered from the interaction with local retailers and shopkeepers, namely through non-structured interviews, shows that, although in increasing decline, local commerce appears in collective memory as a factor of development, but also of self-identity, community/territory identity, resiliency, conviviality and preservation of knowledge.
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Visual arts Education IPL/2022/IMAGOMUNDI_ESELx
Citation
Pereira, Teresa Matos & Antunes, Sandra Pereira & Matos, Joana Gaudêncio & Sá, Kátia (2024). Mapping Local Memory: Engaging School and Community Through Visual Arts Project. In Domínguez, David Caldevilla & Barrientos-Báez, Almudena (Ed.s). Las Artes como Expresión Vital. Vol. 2. Ciencias Sociales en Abierto, pp. 275-286. Berlín: Peter Lang