Description
Critical-Creativity and the Arts in Research and Education (CCARE) is a laboratory led by Associate Professor Tatiana Chemi. The CCARE team aims to making visible specific research interests and methodologies shared by a number of researchers within the research group Co-Learn. The team intends to cultivate its members’ passion about alternative approaches to research and education. We intend to deepen our knowledge about methodologies that are embodied, material, affective and attentive to critical theories by means of participatory, affective, sensory and arts-based methodologies (participatory action research, ethnography, autoethnography). In our research in teaching and education we engage with a number of participants, from school level to community building, from higher education to organizational change. Our approach to research and learning is characterized by openness, commitment to passion and fabulation, theoretical rethinking, journeys in/out of theories, explorations, encounters. Our research includes the body, affects, creativity, artistic means and ontoepistemological diversity. CCARE is conceived as a learning community and dialogical platform that connects the participants’ research interests and gives them the opportunity for intimate, exciting, nomadic journeys. The CCARE activities are structured as rhizomatic gatherings as travels through and by means of the unexpected.The purpose is:
• To walk the talk
• By establishing an environment of radical care
• By building a concrete space and time for ongoing intimate, in-depth, open, explorative conversations
• By promoting activities that are passionate, meaningful and relevant for rethinking research and education
• To talk the walk
• To make visible to external observers selected themes and interests, such as social justice, diversity, activism, citizenship, multiculturalism
• To strengthen the area of arts-based methods and critical-creativity in education research in order to define shared research projects and emerging fund raising strategies
• To describe, change and engage in poetic encounters educational organisations.
The network is anchored in existing teaching activities, such as KREA Master, University College North, RMIC.
ACTIVITIES
Examples of activities are:
• Reading the same book and sharing the different interpretations or
• Discussing topics
• Reading each other’s writings
• Reading out loud one’s writing to each other (embodied reading)
• Responding in multiple ways to each other’s writings
| Period | 2024 → … |
|---|---|
| Degree of Recognition | International |
Keywords
- creativity, criticality, arts-based education, activism, care