How participation won, and why it matters
When I argued – as I still do – that people benefit from participating in art, it is because of its potential for learning, emancipation and empowerment. Experience changes us. Powerful experiences, such as those that come from creating art with other people, can change us deeply. But that change is something we do for ourselves: it is not done to us
The ideas vary in style, duration and resources, from a short workshop to projects lasting several months There’s are lots of nourishing stuff, some you might want to adapt and replicate, some that could just spark new ideas in your own work
The Portuguese edition of A Restless Art will be published on 9 May 2019, and we are making final corrections
The POLIN Choir is an ambitious and sustained initiative to develop the relationship between a new museum and the community in which it stands.
Valleys Kids shows how close community art and community development can be, especially when work is rooted and sustained. The
Sometimes you miss the obvious thing, even when you’ve been looking at it for years. Yesterday, as I walked along
ICAF (the International Community Arts Festival in Rotterdam) has just published a photo book of the 2017 edition, and an
Today, I turn sixty. Such anniversaries are foreseeable, and this one’s long presence on my personal horizon was a reason
“I am the Museum” is a civil society and media action aimed to mobilize a massive citizens engagement to save
If you’ve read some of the material published on this site, I hope you’ll understand why I describe participatory
