Joseph Beuys said that \u201cevery human being is an artist. In every human being there is a virtual creative faculty. This does not mean that every person is a painter or a sculptor, but that there is a latent creativity in all spheres of human work.\u201d<\/p>\n
At a conference on education and creativity, the writer and educator Sir Ken Robinson explained that his interest in education was based on the fact that it takes us to a future that we cannot understand. Sir Ken Robinson, a reference in the field and also an advisor to different governments on educational issues, argued that all children have tremendous talent and we waste it ruthlessly. He reasoned his judgment by pointing out that the entire educational system is based on the idea of \u200b\u200bacademic ability and claimed the need to rethink the concept of intelligence. For him, creativity should be as important in education as literacy and, therefore, should be given the same importance.<\/p>\n
I don’t know if the creators of Factor\u00eda de Sant Andreu, the educational programme of Sant Andreu Contemporani in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bare aware of these theories, but they certainly share them. Directed by the artist Jordi Ferreiro, Factor\u00eda de Sant Andreu consists of a monthly programme of workshops aimed at schools and also at a family audience. The format is quite simple: each month an artist (participant in the Miquel Casablancas Prize Visual Arts Competition) is invited to present his or her work and then a practical workshop is held in which children learn about contemporary art through direct experience.<\/p>\n
At Factor\u00eda de Sant Andreu, with Jordi Ferreiro as master of ceremonies, children attend presentations by emerging artists to learn about the unconventional ways of working and thinking in contemporary art. They then carry out various activities in a fun and relaxed manner with very basic and everyday materials, which can range from making sculptures with straws (workshop by Ferm\u00edn Jim\u00e9nez Landa), to filming a movie sequence (weareqq), rebuilding a town destroyed by a monster (Quim Packard), drawing and expressing desires and claims (Ana Garc\u00eda Pineda), turning the space into a physical recreation of how the Internet works (Georgina Malagarriga) or designing a CD cover and recording a record as if the children were the vinyl itself (Ainara Elgoibar).<\/p>\n
At the Sant Andreu Factory, there is no talk of shapes and colours, techniques or volumes. When artists talk about their work, they do so based on their own experiences, their concerns, worries and what motivates them, and through the activities they propose, they invite children to explore topics such as relationships between people, the representation of reality through various media, the way the Internet connects us or how we see ourselves and how others see us, to name just a few. And so, as if it were nothing, they contribute with their grain of sand to bringing contemporary art closer, to stimulating creativity, personal ideas and, ultimately, free thought. Not much.<\/p>\n
[Article published in Bonart, 2012]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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