Friday, 11/22/2024
EAAD - Garagem Avenida
The
open class “Transmalhar: a transdisciplinary (and collaborative) learning
methodology” will occur on November 22nd, at noon at Garagem Avenida, with
Professor Rita Serra e Silva.
“Transmalhar”
is an open methodology of Anda&Fala, and is the result of a co-creation
project that took place, weekly, during the 2023-24 school year, in S.Miguel,
between a transdisciplinary team (Architecture, Dance, and Psychology) and
45 youngsters (14-19 years old), from vulnerable socioeconomic backgrounds. The
co-creation process included the professional contribution of researchers,
artists, anthropologists, and architects and involved the participation of
around 80 citizens from different social backgrounds.
“Transmalhar” combines
transdisciplinarity with the importance of losing direction (tres-malhar),
through collective walks, with tools of research and livelihood. This
methodology recognizes Art as a civic act, used to question daily public
spaces, to understand its impact on community formation, and to speculate their
future. Through participatory artistic practices, in safe, inclusive, and
accessible spaces, “Transmalhar”, promotes interactions in contexts that aren't
the ones of the participant's daily life, them being direct or indirect
participants, and, builds a network of horizontal and affective relationships.
This
open talk, between Rita Serra e Silva (Artistic Director of Transmalhar),
Natacha Antão and Miguel Bandeira (walk.Lab2Pt) presents the project “Transmalhar”,
its motivations, objectives, and results and focuses on the importance of
cultural artistic and transdisciplinary practices for the social transformation
at São Miguel island.
Rita Serra e Silva is the coordinator of
the Audience Program of the Anda&Fala – Cultural Association (São Miguel,
Açores), where, through different projects of artistic experimentation and
knowledge sharing, she promotes the gathering and collaboration
(non_hierarquic) of people and organizations.
She moved to São Miguel Island in 2022,
when she was invited to coordinate the axis of Audiences Involvement and
Participacion of the candidacy of Ponta Delgada – Azores 2027 to Culture
European Capital.
Before that, in Guimarães, she started
her PhD in Architecture research (The Body in Space for “Territorial Literacy”
in Childhood: an Experience mediated by Architecture, in São Miguel, Portugal)
at EAAD, where she was assistant professor in the Architecture degree (Emerging
Programs Seminar). Since 2021 she has been a consultant of Portugal Art
Encounters. In 2020 she founded the “Architects Declare Portugal” platform and
since 2017 her path as an architect has focused on the cultural and artistic
sector.
