INTERSECTIONAL APPROACHES TO HIGHER EDUCATION AND CREATIVITY

May 2019 -

Intersectional perspective involve displacing the coordinates of higher education and creativity into a realm where gender, race, class and economic differences play an active role.

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I explore these situated dimensions through embodied exercises with creators that affect my research in a dynamic of sincere cooperation, the latest being with playwright and performer Txell Caralt (published in the conference Indisciplines).

Since December 2019, as the head of communications of the UAB platform of Open Up, this situatedness takes the form of a crafting of a network of migrant and local artists that promotes cross-cultural creativity paying attention to issues of socialization and underrepresentation in the arts. See OpenUp here, and here.

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As a Teaching Assistant of Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics, I coordinate the teaching innovation project artencurs at UAB, with Prof. Jessica Jaques, which focuses on the embodied and situated experience of students and how that affects the appropriation of philosophical texts and problems. Every year we celebrate the festival Gespa Price, where the poetic potential of this novel approach to higher ed is manifested. This year, due to the COVID crisis, a group of students and I organized the festival online. See the catalogue here.