“POLIS: ARTS-BASED RESEARCH IN EDUCATION“

by Prof. Dr. Nazario Zambaldi, PhD General Pedagogy, Social Pedagogy, General Education and Subject Didactics at the Free University of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy

 

 

ABSTRACT

Starting from the PhD research Embodied Education through arts and theater and from more than twenty years of artistic and theatrical research applied to education, all the presented projects focus on the city as a metaphor and laboratory of practices with marginalized people. Introduced by a research and training experiences (LEA Languages Expression Arts and META Mediation Theater Arts – shortly after 2000), a research in the psychiatric field is described (with the CRAT Center of Research Art and Theater and the direction of the CRATere festival, small review of arts, theater and humanity – since 2005). A further area of arts-based research is related to inclusion and citizenship in the context of migration with the Theater of Hospitality (since 2014). Starting from these more recent projects, the Polis project is outlined: after the “end of the city”, it affirms the need to re-establish communities through the re-appropriation of spaces and experiences – dialogue, ecology, memory – as well as through relationships and new alliances. The conclusions set out the developments of the Polis project, introducing an innovative methodological approach in the field of human rights, that is collocated between arts-based research and phenomenological videographic analysis.

Keywords: Arts, Theater, Embodied Education, Arts-based research, Phenomenology, Videographic analysis, Human Rights.

 

BIOGRAPHY

Nazario Zambaldi, PhD General Pedagogy, Social Pedagogy, General Education and Subject Didactics at the Free University of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy.
Theater director and visual artist, cultural operator, teacher of philosophy and human sciences in high school.
Topics of research and area of interest: Phenomenology, Arts-based research, Art, Theater, Embodiment, Ecology, Biopolitics, Human Rights.
www.metaart.it; nazario.zambaldi@gmail.com