Name of the practice

Film Capsules (cápsulas fílmicas)

Name of the organization, or responsible

Declinación Magnética

When did it take place

24.10. 2014 – 05.01. 2015, 17.01.2015

Where did it take place

Matadero (Madrid), MUSAC Museum León, Reina Sofía Museum

Aim of the project

The audiovisual production of series "film capsules", halfway between fiction, non-fiction and essays, seeking to re-examine the meaning of the colonial past and present it in the context of the current global crisis.

Short descirption (no more than 100 words)

Research and production group of visual artists, theorists and curators whose work is part of the awareness of the postcolonial  and  decolonial studies.

Target Group (e.g. youths, …)

Youths, migrants, wide public

Institution(s) involved (e.g. museums,…), cooperation partners

Matadero (Madrid), MUSAC León, Reina Sofía Museum, Jeu de Paume (París),

Topic of the project according to our focuses (e.g. gender diversity, cultural diversity, age)

Cultural Diversity

Duration (total hours)

-

Duration (hours per week)

-

Space (setting)

Exhibition of audiovisual material in cultural spaces and museums

Format of the project (workshops, events,….)

Audiovisual, action

Outreach: Who/How many very reached by this project?

Declinación Magnética (Magnetic Declination) explore unseen histories in "Margin of Error", an exhibition of six films made in collaboration with teenagers and history teachers. The objectives of the project: not only to explore the history book, the classroom and traditional teaching techniques as technologies of modernity/coloniality but to intervene creatively in the process through which a representation comes to be absorbed and accepted by an individual.

Reasons for considering it a good practice (include indicators)

Participatory, collaborative activities which focus on popular, not legitimized knowledge. User-generated-content.

A constant movement between performance and rehearsal, between memory as script and script as contingency, between the discursive positions made available by dominant European historiography and the off-space, the elsewhere, the margins.

web/ contact address

https://declinationmagnetic.wordpress.com/

specific theoretical or methodological references

DM addresses hybrid methodologies resulting from the use of artistic strategies and research in different areas of practice and knowledge production.

Name of the practice

No city for young people/No es ciudad para jóvenes

Name of the organization, or responsible

Juventud sin futuro

When did it take place

ongoing

Where did it take place

Online + workgroups discussion in different civic spaces (e. g. Patio Maravillas)

Aim of the project

Provide a platform for various youth movements denouncing deep social problems

Short descirption (no more than 100 words)

No city for young people is a social online platform where young people have their own say on social problmes like: joblessness, impossibility to acquire their own home, no access to public services as jobless, have to leave their own country because of the lack of opportunity.

The project created an online map where young people reconverted in emigrants tell their own story and leave their photos: http://www.nonosvamosnosechan.net/ (#NoNosVamosNosEchan is an initiative that denounces the forced exile of the precarious youth.)

Target Group (e.g. youths, …)

youths

Institution(s) involved (e.g. museums,…), cooperation partners

decentralized, non-institutionalized

Topic of the project according to our focuses (e.g. gender diversity, cultural diversity, age)

Young people

Duration (total hours)

ongoing

Duration (hours per week)

ongoing

Space (setting)

Online, civic spaces

Format of the project (workshops, events,….)

Online platform + workgroups

Outreach: Who/How many very reached by this project?

A huge range of participants take part in the different actions.

Reasons for considering it a good practice (include indicators)

Sustainable social activism. Proliferation of ideas and new forms of activism. Methods and techniques preferred by young people.

web/ contact address

http://www.noesciudadparajovenes.com/

http://www.nonosvamosnosechan.net

specific theoretical or methodological references

Using digital media for creating interactive spaces of discussion and activism

Name of the practice

Social Cartoon Forum/ Salón del Cómic Social

Name of the organization, or responsible

Salón del Cómic Social

When did it take place

16-19.10.2014

Where did it take place

Barcelona (Spain)

Aim of the project

Represent  social cartoons as form of Artivism

Short descirption (no more than 100 words)

Exhibitions, debates and round-tables on the following topics: the graphic  fight against the law of abortion,  immigration, prostitution, drugs, uncensored humor, etc.

Target Group (e.g. youths, …)

Youths, women, broad public

Institution(s) involved (e.g. museums,…), cooperation partners

Mémoire et BD, Festival d"Art Social, Wombastic, Cómic Cornelia, La Oveja Roja, Ajuntament de Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Can Sisteré, Xarxa de Centres Cívics i Casals, 

Topic of the project according to our focuses (e.g. gender diversity, cultural diversity, age)

Cultural diversity, gender diversity

Duration (total hours)

16-19.10.2014

Duration (hours per week)

-

Space (setting)

Forum

Format of the project (workshops, events,….)

Event, exhibitions, debates and round-tables

Outreach: Who/How many very reached by this project?

It is the fifth edition of the event aimed at maintaining the interest to the social cartoon as artivism. High participation of women are pursued.

Reasons for considering it a good practice (include indicators)

Claiming of comics and graphic art, in general, as tools for social criticism.

web/ contact address

http://saloncomicsocial.blogspot.com.es/

specific theoretical or methodological references

Event accompanied by various debates. Artivism

Name of the practice

2013Bundesmigrantinnen-

Images of migration in urban space

Name of the organization, or responsible

MIGRANTAS

When did it take place

Since 2004

Where did it take place

Berlin

Aim of the project

The project aims to make people with migrant background visible within the urban space using glyphs, reflections and feelings related to the lifecycle.

Short descirption (no more than 100 words)

Workshops | Visual expression of one’s own story.
Migrantas meets with migrants in their own collective spaces - organisations, community centres, cultural groups - and organizes workshops in order to exchange experiences through simple drawings. After that,  drawings are translated into pictograms. 
Pictograms as visual form of communication give people the opportunity to recognize themselves in the representations, while others gain new insights or modify their own perspectives.

The project ends with an exhibition. Finally, all pictograms are spead out in the urban space as posters, shopping bags, flyers,or projected digital animations.   

Target Group (e.g. youths, …)

migrants

Institution(s) involved (e.g. museums,…), cooperation partners

Funding from public and private institutions.

Topic of the project according to our focuses (e.g. gender diversity, cultural diversity, age)

cultural diversity

Duration (total hours)

Urban actions of long duration, are scheduled to perform throughout the year, including workshops for the realization of the glyphs and subsequent exposure of the pictograms in the urban space.

Duration (hours per week)

Space (setting)

Are displayed in advertising columns, metro stations, local, etc... in posters, bags or cards

Format of the project (workshops, events,….)

workshops for the preparation of the pictograms, conferences and urban actions: display the glyphs, exhibitions, etc...

Outreach: Who/How many very reached by this project?

Visibility for the inhabitants of Berlin and other German cities: Hamburg, Nuremberg, Cologne...

Reasons for considering it a good practice (include indicators)

Integration activities,  visibility in the urban space, sustainability.

web/ contact address

http://www.migrantas.org/

specific theoretical or methodological references

Urban actions though different methods, be part of the landscape of the city

Name of the practice

CONVERSADORAS:  A really useful knowledge (Un saber realmente útil:)

Name of the organization, or responsible

Bookcamping

When did it take place

20.11.2014-

Where did it take place

Reina Sofía Museum (Madrid)

Aim of the project

Collaborative Digital Library aimed to create an open fund of books, documents and resources.

Short descirption (no more than 100 words)

Dialogue with the public about the editing possibilities outside cultural industries. Collaboration is understood as an ongoing process that, by incorporating the disagreements and working strategies present in the various sensibilities involved, changes the vertical logic of power in the system of the production and transmission of knowledge.

Target Group (e.g. youths, …)

Youth, women, old people, migrants, wide public

Institution(s) involved (e.g. museums,…), cooperation partners

Reina Sofía Museum (Madrid), Bookcamping, Contrabandos (Association of Independent Publishers of political books)

Topic of the project according to our focuses (e.g. gender diversity, cultural diversity, age)

Cultural Diversity

Duration (total hours)

November-

Duration (hours per week)

ongoing

Space (setting)

space within the museum

Format of the project (workshops, events,….)

Discussion forum

Outreach: Who/How many very reached by this project?

The initiative works in the context of social struggles and social movements aimed at disadvantaged groups . The project  starts from the idea of collaborative open library to become today a discussion forum, community, tool, device, location.

Reasons for considering it a good practice (include indicators)

Articulating new ways of collectively thinking. The project is based on participative research and collective work.

web/ contact address

http://bookcamping.cc/

specific theoretical or methodological references

Methodologies and tools common in feminists critical pedagogies, popular education, participative research and collective work.

Name of the practice

The Nobodies feature nothing/ Los nadie cuentan nada

Name of the organization, or responsible

Patio Maravillas

When did it take place

Friday, twice a month

Where did it take place

Patio Maravillas, Madrid

Aim of the project

"The Nobodies feature nothing" is a storytelling workshop to learn to speak, tell stories and realities to adults.

Short descirption (no more than 100 words)

The workshop begins with some basics: how to prepare the stories without learning them, reinventing every time; learn to reinvent, to control the voice, the body and the words.

Target Group (e.g. youths, …)

Adults

Institution(s) involved (e.g. museums,…), cooperation partners

Patio Maravillas

Topic of the project according to our focuses (e.g. gender diversity, cultural diversity, age)

Age

Duration (total hours)

-

Duration (hours per week)

3 h.

Space (setting)

Cultural space (occupied square)

Format of the project (workshops, events,….)

workshop

Outreach: Who/How many very reached by this project?

 in progress

Reasons for considering it a good practice (include indicators)

Innovative action about storytelling workshops aimed at adults.

web/ contact address

http://patiomaravillas.net/2014/11/04/los-nadie-cuentan-nada

specific theoretical or methodological references

Performance teaching

Name of the practice

Arts Education Action

Name of the organization, or responsible

EnterArte

When did it take place

18.05.2014, 19.05.2014

Where did it take place

Street performance, in front of the Prado Museum +

Workshops in the Centro de Arte Tomás y Valiente, Fuenlabrada

Aim of the project

EnterArte is a workgroup part of the Movement for Education Renewal "Education Action" aimed to encouraging reflection, research and development in education, to generate and manage innovative projects in arts education .

Short descirption (no more than 100 words)

EnterArt is working for more than 16 years to make visible the artistic expression of students in all stages of education. To celebrate the International Museum Day it brought to the street a metaphorical recreation of the work of El Greco "The Burial of Lord of Orgaz" to reflect allegorically the disappearance of the context that promotes artistic expression. " After that, EnterArte, organized several workshops "Being in Time, Being in Action", in the exhibition "BEING IN TIME" (Centro de Arte Tomás y Valiente, Fuenlabrada).

Target Group (e.g. youths, …)

Youths

Institution(s) involved (e.g. museums,…), cooperation partners

EnterArte, Movement for Education Renewal "Education Action"

Topic of the project according to our focuses (e.g. gender diversity, cultural diversity, age)

innovative projects in arts education

Duration (total hours)

Duration (hours per week)

-

Space (setting)

Street, cultural centers,

Format of the project (workshops, events,….)

Street performance, workgroup

Outreach: Who/How many very reached by this project?

The project has attracted various organizations and associations in support of its work that participate actively in the workshops and performances: on identity, gender, feminism, school, etc.

Reasons for considering it a good practice (include indicators)

EnterArte is working for more than 16 years to make visible the artistic expression of students in all stages of education: sustainability. Encouraging reflection, research and development in education.  Generate and manage innovative projects in arts education.

web/ contact address

http://accioneducativa-mrp.org/enterarte/

specific theoretical or methodological references

Make visible through street performances,

Combining methods from actions to research.

Name of the practice

AmiArte, interdisciplinary workshop on art creation

Name of the organization, or responsible

AmiArte (Association of Friends of Art)

When did it take place

AmiArte is a non profit organization chartered in 1982.

Where did it take place

Bilbao

Aim of the project

Personal reconstruction through participation in joint artistic projects. Support the integration of groups in exclusion and multicultural integration by initiating a process of improving their wellbeing through the transformative power of artistic creation.
It is a open  interdisciplinary workshop.

Short descirption (no more than 100 words)

AmiArte is an interdisciplinary artistic creation workshop where artists and professionals from different fields, work on joint projects aimed at people without resources, homeless, immigrants, seniors women, youth, disabled and people who are in situations of extreme marginalization and social exclusion.
Develop a community project that links generations, integrating people in situations of personal difficulty relating and conditioned by his deep personal problems.  Creative work that facilitates the formation project, individual improvement and social and community participation.

Target Group (e.g. youths, …)

Broken families, people without resources, the homeless, immigrants, seniors, women, youth, disabled, people in situation of extreme marginalization and social exclusion

amiArte

AmiArte works in coordination with mental health modules Begoña, San Ignacio, Uribe Costa, Auzolan, Basauri, Novia Salcedo, with the psychiatric hospital in Bermeo, Basurto Hospital, Hospital de Zamudio. With educators in floors of
former inmates. With all shelters in Vizcaya, Vitoria and San Sebastian. Coordinates with social integration centers Cear, Gizakia, Ferrer Foundation, Caritas Goiztiri, Izangai, Lamberri,  etc.
AmiArte is part of the platform EAPN (European Network on Poverty Reduction) and is networked with other third sector organizations like Beste Bi or Lagun Artean, etc.

Topic of the project according to our focuses (e.g. gender diversity, cultural diversity, age)

Gender, poverty, social exclusion, immigration, cultural diversity

Duration (total hours)

Duration (hours per week)

Space (setting)

- Workshop of Art Creation (creative painting, mural painting, sculpture and exhibitions)

- Workshop on New Technologies (graphic design and layout, photography and audiovisual production.

There is also a carpentry workshop, Design and Recycling, and exhibitions of own work and group projects in different cultural or social, public and private spaces.

Format of the project (workshops, events,….)

Workshops, exhibitions, basic training, support and counseling, welfare flats, leisure activities

Outreach: Who/How many very reached by this project?

Reasons for considering it a good practice (include indicators)

Manage and develop individualized training projects for the personal development of users, case by case, to understand the background of the problem, and facilitating project work and co-creations. All activities are adapted both artistic and pedagogical predetermined targets.

Focuses on basic care and attention: basic resources (food, clothing, shelter) and personal support (accompaniment and personalized attention, including psychological or psychiatric support if necessary). The second area of care is based on overcoming social barriers, through training and support for labor integration, administrative support, etc. The third is aimed at social integration through art education.

-addressing a full citizen participation and social inclusion of different groups.

All family members participate according to their

schedules and profiles in different sections of the project.

Build capacity decision, strategies based on flexible dynamic operation, adapted to individual capacities. Participants are the authors of their own dynamics, assuming also  responsibilities in the operation of the center. The gender perspective is taken into account in establishing the group of members of the workshop, in relation to the different reasons people taking part in the project. 

web/ contact address

http://www.amiarte.org/

specific theoretical or methodological references

Name of the practice

Cine sin Autor

Name of the organization, or responsible

Asociación Cine sin Autor  (Authorless Cinema)

When did it take place

ongoing

Where did it take place

Madrid, Murcia, Toulusse.

Aim of the project

We make movies with people. Our aim is to produce and create through a horizontal and collective process, based on an assembly-led organization.

Short description (no more than 100 words)

Cine sin Autor was born as a cultural theory project that encourages an artistic practice, more precisely cinema.  Based on a critical revision of the History of Cinema, we give shape to a new model of cinematographic production. The “sinautoría” (authorless practice) seeks to abandon the notion of the author as the main piece of authority and property, in order to create the possibilities for the emergence of filmmaking collectives. The creative process is horizontal which means that every decision is taken based on assembly-wise discussions. Preproduction, script, shooting, editing, postproduction and distribution of finished works are the various phases that are progressively collectivized.

Target Group (e.g. youths, …)

Any person of any condition excluded from cinematographic representation (from children to elderly), acknowledging their functional diversity.

Institution(s) involved (e.g. museums,…), cooperation partners

Fábrica de Cine sin Autor in Intermediae Matadero Madrid (www.matamesipuedes.com y www.kdekalle.com )

Beca de investigación en Museo Reina Sofía (MNCARS)

Topic of the project according to our focuses (e.g. gender diversity, cultural diversity, age)

Social inclusion of any kind of person

Duration (total hours)

ongoing

Duration (hours per week)

Temporalities vary and depend on the different processes and agreements of every collective.

Space (setting)

Online, civic spaces

Format of the project (workshops, events,….)

The format varies depending on the specific project and group. One of them is the installation of Authorless Cinema Factories which contain several processes and include Authorless Cinema Schools.

Outreach: Who/How many very reached by this project?

A huge range of participants take part in the different processes of films. Just as an example, the Authorless Cinema Factory in Madrid involves around 300 people.

Reasons for considering it a good practice (include indicators)

Democratic occupation of culture as a means to inhabit and transform the world.

Inclusion of large segments of society, traditionally excluded from the production and administration of culture.

web/ contact address

www.cinesinautor.es

specific theoretical or methodological references

To use digital technology to favor social organizations through cinematographic production.

Name of the practice

Project Hipatia

Name of the organization, or responsible

Department of Education and Cultural Action MUSAC (Museum of Contemporary Art of Castile and Leon.).

When did it take place

2007- 2011

Where did it take place

Prison Mansilla de las Mulas (León), module 10 (women)

Aim of the project

Hypatia"s work seeks women to challenge themselves, representations of their experiences, their emotional contexts, relationships, etc. outside and inside the prison. The project aims to review these representations. Focuses on the construction of self-representation.

Short descirption (no more than 100 words)

The Hypatia Project works with female inmates in the prison of Mansilla de las Mulas, focusing on pedagogies as a way of producing cultural transformations in people participating. The Hypatia project developed actions between 2007 and 2011 through workshops, activities and meetings with artists, and by launching a magazine giving voice and visibility to women prisoners.

Target Group (e.g. youths, …)

Women, persons deprived of liberty

Institution(s) involved (e.g. museums,…), cooperation partners

Museum of Contemporary Art of Castile and Leon. Prison Mansilla de las Mulas

Topic of the project according to our focuses (e.g. gender diversity, cultural diversity, age)

Gender, social exclusion, persons deprived of liberty

Duration (total hours)

Duration (hours per week)

Space (setting)

Format of the project (workshops, events,….)

Meetings with artists and writers, workshops, development of a magazine written by and for inmates

Outreach: Who/How many very reached by this project?

Reasons for considering it a good practice (include indicators)

Organization, support and institutional coverage from the Department of Education and Cultural Action MUSAC, a leading contemporary art museum in Spain.

Broad support

web/ contact address

http://deacmusac.es/proyecto-hipatia-pedagogias-de-genero-en-espacios-de-reclusion

specific theoretical or methodological references

Gender pedagogies as a way of producing cultural transformations in people who participate in it. The work of self-discovery, construction and reconstruction of the women themselves.

Name of the practice

La gaseosa de ácido eléctrico (The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test) (the title is based on a novel written by Tom Wolfe)

Name of the organization, or responsible

Javier Montero

When did it take place (year, month)

2013

Where did it take place (country, city, location, e.g. museum/streets/school)

Spain, Madrid, Intermediae Art Center

Format of the project (workshops, events, tours,)

Four workshops (Writing dramatic texts, Sound Landscape, Theater interpretation, Stage design), theater play.

Relevant aims of the project

-          Create a colective subject through creation and creativity

-          Collective creation and ownership.

-          Create a net of supporting relationships

-          Encourage and empower through arts

-          Art as a medium to develop new strategies to copy life.

Short description (no more than 100-200 words)

La gaseosa de ácido eléctrico (The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test) is an experimental performance project that develops horizontal work tools and investigates collective intelligence methods. It is carried out by a group of women about the age of 60, from  different ethnic and social backgrounds. The plot is based on the occupation of a financial club and its conversion into a social dining area, given the precarious nature of the crisis of the capitalist system in Spain.

The project has developed its own strategic approach to experimental performance arts and popular culture, which has nourished the work with body and space, text and narration, accents and mother tongues, playwriting and meta-fiction, soundscapes and stage design. This has allowed  to explore different contemporary artistic disciplines and make a call to thinking as action.

The work process has been structured into four workshops that made it possible to investigate numerous aspects of stage development: Writing and acting workshops; Soundscape design workshop; and Stage design workshop. The piece combines three spaces: the dining hall, the kitchen and the ‘metafiction’. It has been developed an exciting, complex and rather sophisticated work, however the process is undoubtedly fascinating.

Target Group (e.g. youths…)

Women over 60 from different origins.

Institution(s) involved (e.g. museums…) cooperation partners

Intermediae Art Center/Tea-Tron Association

Topic of the project according to our focuses (e.g. gender diversity, cultural diversity, age)

Gender and cultural diversity

Duration (total hours)

Duration (hours per week)

Space (setting)

Intermediae Art Center

Outreach: Who/How many were reached by this project? (if possible, please give numbers, choose whatever is relevant for your project. How many were directly affected/involved…)

Additional information.

20 participants

Reasons for considering it a good practice (include indicators)

• Building bridges between disadvantaged/silenced groups and majority society.
• Institution extends its space by the public space.
• Inclusion of target group in process.
• Inspiring forms of (art) education / museum pedagogy.
• Creating a commonality, collective and consensus voice.
• Participants take part in the design of the process, in the aim of the project.

web/ contact address

http://www.tea-tron.com/javiermontero/blog/tag/la-gaseosa-de-acido-electrico/

http://redessecretas.blogspot.com.es/2013/07/la-gaseosa-de-acido-electrico.html

Specific theoretical or methodological references

-          Collective intelligence methods.

-          horizontal co-working.

-          Political activism.

-          Space as a utopia.

Name of the practice

EXIT Un corto a la carta

Name of the organization, or responsible

Beatriz Santiago and Adrian Silvestre. DINAMIA

When did it take place (year, month)

during 24 months, 2010 and 2011

Where did it take place (country, city, location, e.g. museum/streets/school)

INtermediae, Art and social Center in Madrid, Matadero.

Format of the project (workshops, events, tours,)

Workshop

Relevant aims of the project

-          Life history as a way for empowering and reflecting on life project.

-          Interactive creation as a way to create a group.

-          Developing coping skill tho deal with life.

-          Developing empowering skills ans selfsteem.

-          Empowering skill to deal with incertainty.

-          Sharing impredictability of life.

-          Working with personal narratives

-          Coping with stereotypes.

Short description (no more than 100-200 words)

The Exit, a short film project began with a real advertisment created by Beatriz Santiago and Adrián Silvestre. Both, actress and director of the film, sought to migrant women who would like to be the protagonists of their own film. The claim arose almost a hundred; and 46 adventurous and migrants actresses, came to form part of a series of workshops of expression and interpretation. From this work a screenplay was formed, that of their lives, adventures and misadventures in Spain. Exit tells it through a movie in which the Viewer is able to choose the outcome to the dilemmas that the migrants were founding and helps the viewer to travel with them to their reality. The interactivity that is raised in the project allows a journey through stories, because there is not a single movie, but eight, which always start with the arrival of each one of them filled with dreams and aspirations to a new city.  It opens the private and individual output found by each protagonist in Madrid.

During the workshops migrant women share their personal narratives, difficulties, unfulfilled dreams and achievements. Through the screenplay and the making of the film different skills are reinforced as humor, empowerment, communication, selfseem and strength to copy difficulties in life..

Target Group (e.g. youths…)

Migrant women

Institution(s) involved (e.g. museums…) cooperation partners

Art Center Intermediae/ Dinamia (Asocitation for social inclusion)/ La Caixa (Foundation)

Topic of the project according to our focuses (e.g. gender diversity, cultural diversity, age)

cultural diversity, gender.

Duration (total hours)

200 hours

Duration (hours per week)

Space (setting)

Intermediae/ Matadero Madrid

Outreach: Who/How many were reached by this project? (if possible, please give numbers, choose whatever is relevant for your project. How many were directly affected/involved…)

Additional information.

46 women

Reasons for considering it a good practice (include indicators)

• Building bridges between disadvantaged/silenced groups and majority society.
• Inspiring forms of (art) education / museum pedagogy.
• Gender and migration.
• Interactive methodology

web/ contact address

http://intermediae.es/project/exit_un_corto_a_la_carta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nk0jsc4YAc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXzBVTKmNLA

Specific theoretical or methodological references

-          Use of life stories

-          Participants involved in process

-          Action/research methodologies

-          Cinema as a tool for social inclusion

Name of the practice

Identibuzz, ringing in hybrid identities

Name of the organization, or responsible

Úbiqa. Technology, Ideas and Communication

When did it take place

The pilot project began in 2011.

Where did it take place

Basque Country, in the cities and neighborhoods of San Francisco, Mouraria, Getxo, Tolosa, Ermua, Portugalete, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Deusto.

Aim of the project

The main objective of the project is to conduct collaborative and participatory development of audiovisual production sharing experiences and practices of interaction and coexistence of indigenous and foreign populations, placing value and promoting multiculturalism, and admitting permeability between cultures as value innovation and change. Identibuzz aims to become an exercise in social dynamism by increasing participation and involvement of citizens in the co-creation of content and communication thereof, articulating new citizen digital narratives.

Short descirption (no more than 100 words)

It is a participatory communication project aimed to represent the new relationships established in different territories and how these relationships contribute to the creation of new hybrid identities caused by multiculturalism. Engages and empowers citizens trough the use of new technologies and new digital narratives about their identity and their environment, creating a space of connection between different territories where different cultures can interact, creating a shared story about their reality and identity (ies). The intention is to create a mosaic that reflects cultural diversity, promoting relations and coexistence.

Target Group (e.g. youths, …)

Youth, women, groups, associations interested in diversity and multiculturalism

Institution(s) involved (e.g. museums,…), cooperation partners

Topic of the project according to our focuses (e.g. gender diversity, cultural diversity, age)

Diversity, multiculturalism, immigration

Duration (total hours)

Duration (hours per week)

Space (setting)

Format of the project (workshops, events,….)

Participatory methodology focusing on digital training workshops, based on concepts such as citizen journalism and Web 2.0. The project is articulated through workshops express in which participants learn to use mobile phones as tools of communication and recording. After completing the workshop, they record testimonies of native and foreign people on their territory experiences. Recordings are used later  to edit the project documentary videos.

Videos are disseminated through the project website, social media and public audiovisual repositories.

Outreach: Who/How many very reached by this project?

Reasons for considering it a good practice (include indicators)

Open project enhanced through the provision of access to audiovisual creations, social networks and public audiovisual repositories.

Broad participation and production. So far, 96 participants, 27 nationalities, 351 interviews and 77 hours recording.

High technical quality of the recordings and the management of technology resources and visibility.

web/ contact address

http://www.identibuzz.org/

Úbiqa, Tecnología, Ideas y Comunicación S.L.

Mazarredo Zumarkalea, 35

Bilbao

specific theoretical or methodological references

It has a social and community character, where what matters is that a group of people, not directly related to audiovisual production, meet, have something to say and want to use this audiovisual tool to leave a message.

The methodology is structured around express training workshops, grounded in the horizontal audiovisual communication and concepts such as citizen journalism and Web 2.0.

Articulate the project by conducting participatory video can show the view from inside through an experiential dynamics. Participatory video is used as an excuse to bring together different cultural identities present in neighborhoods, putting them in touch trying to create new social relations of intercultural character.

Name of the practice

Finmatun Cultural Association

Name of the organization, or responsible

Finmatun Cultural Association

When did it take place

Since 2006

Where did it take place

Mainly Barcelona y Cataluña

Aim of the project

Finmatun Cultural Association is a collective of artists in the field of visual arts, music and artistic production. Since 2006 it works in developing actions of creation, social activism and artistic production with detainees and people in socially disadvantaged situation.

Short descirption (no more than 100 words)

Finmatun  focuses on the artistic experience as creation but also, as visibility of the creations from its dissemination.

In terms of creation:

- Workshops based on social dynamic and participatory

- Collective Artistic Creations

In terms of dissemination and construction of multidisciplinary networks:

- Exhibition and dissemination of works in conventional and unconventional circuits

- Exchange with other cultural entities local and/or international

- Promoting the visibility of artistic productions in a space of broad community outreach

Target Group (e.g. youths, …)

Detainees and other groups in situations of social exclusion

Institution(s) involved (e.g. museums,…), cooperation partners

An extensive network of prisons, museums, art centers and other institutions, mainly from Barcelona and Catalonia.

Topic of the project according to our focuses (e.g. gender diversity, cultural diversity, age)

Social exclusion, persons deprived of their liberty

Duration (total hours)

Duration (hours per week)

Space (setting)

Workspaces are classrooms and stable workshops organized in correctional centers mainly.

Format of the project (workshops, events,….)

In 2007, Aula of Audiovisual Creation in the prison for young people in Barcelona "The Trinity" and the School "L"Alzina": workshops, photography, radio, short film, video, music and documentary production.

In 2008, the first feature film, produced, directed and performed by the inmates of the prison "The Trinity": "400 (“Four hundred”)".

Subsequently, new project in the Prison for Women "Wad-Ras" launching a video-dance lab. Live presentation of a dance piece video in La Caixa Forum in Barcelona.

Project: Frontera Ambulante Cataluña, covering four prisons in Catalonia, showing the most emblematic works realized.

Exhibitions in Museums and Art Centres in Barcelona including video-dance, film and video clip, photography and sound accompanied by open debates with public and  professionals from the social and cultural sphere.

Outreach: Who/How many very reached by this project?

Reasons for considering it a good practice (include indicators)

The Project stresses on creation but also on dissemination.

Take in account the role of art as a tool for social transformation and democratization of the artwork.

Coherent theoretical and methodological approaches showing an updated and complex vision of the person, the problem of social exclusion, art as a tool for transformation and creation processes and visibility.

web/ contact address

http://www.finmatun.com/index.html

E-mail: finmatun@finmatun.com

+34 627 730 128

+34 687 309 903

C/ Progrés, 46

Barcelona – 08012

España

specific theoretical or methodological references

The starting point is the art as a tool for social transformation and the artistic creation in contexts of social exclusion as a tool for intercultural dialogue and cohesion trying  to bring another "culture" to a non-specialist audience. The art in general, and visual and sonic arts are to be experienced and so, have to help rebuild individual and collective story. Art should not be considered a phenomenon tied to a special type of cultural production considered high culture, and should be able to serve as a set of cultural productions of meanings of any individual or group.

CREATION: trying to restore reciprocity in the perception; "doing things together" instead of "writing the history of the other"; rethink what should be the place of the author and his power in the creation process. The idea is not "an expert" educator of "a non-expert" but a group of people sharing an artistic experience allowing knowledge and thoughts, enriching the collective.

They believe that artistic work is constructed through narratives and stories of people and places where everyone can rethink himself as subject and as a member of a group and a community in a historical context.

Aspects such as individual and group identity, subjectivity, emotions, social roles, stereotypes, etc., become the contents of the creations, crossed by a critical eye and collective reflection.
The teaching tools used are a set of games and techniques linked to the visual arts and sound exercises, aimed to resize creation, being an effective tool in understanding and finding alternatives to social and interpersonal problems.

DISSEMINATION: based on the idea that the first step to break the social exclusion of some of the groups is, to show that there is exclusion. At the same way it is necessary to find new ways of expression for these groups, it is essential to find innovative ways to disseminate.

Dissemination as intervention, as surprise; new distribution circuits, bringing art to public spaces, open transit. At the same time, enhance the networking with other agencies and professionals in local and international level, seeking visibility of artistic productions in spaces with broad community outreach.