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SIN CURRÍCULO (Without Curriculum) is an art/education project in the form of a temporary school in Cali Colombia and in Zürich Switzerland that questions the traditional concept of education that conceives students as containers into which educators must put knowledge. Departing from the question how does a school/classroom look like without a curriculum and how such a space impacts and affect the micro-politics of the city? This project
is a space for agency, inter-cultural understanding, autonomy and self-discovery through collective creation, discussion and action.
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wHO +wHERE & wITH wHOM?
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This project is an initiative of Katherine Patiño Miranda and Vincent Scarth, two artists and art educators that work in cooperation of the following people and institutions:
-In Cali Colombia:Fundacion Formación de Futuros, the Art Department and the Institute of Intercultural Studies of Universidad Javeriana and „Se Quien Soy“( An Afro-Colombian Foundation of rural black communities that had to migrate to cities due to armed conflict)
-In Zürich Switzerland: Asylum Centers and the Master of Art Education @ the ZHdK.
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wHAT hAPPENED uNTIL nOW?
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Due to an initial funding, during the month of January 2017 we had the chance to fly to Colombia to start SIN CURRÍCULO. We worked for the period of three weeks in collaboration with el Voluntariado Pastoral de la Universidad Javeriana and with Fundación Formación de Futuros and we organized our vision and interest. Out of this meetings and teaching and learning experiments we came up with the idea of developing an afterschool for people of all ages in the Distrito de Agua Blanca, an underprivileged neighborhood in Cali, while partnering up with the institutions mentioned before, with the intention of opening a space where Afro-Colombian communities, local populations, and foreigners can exchange knowledge, learn from each and develop ideas that bring well being to city.
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rELEVANCE
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SIN CURRÍCULO is an art/educational project that fosters a non-hierarchical school configuration where we redefine the roll of teachers and students as having the same amount agency and capacity of decision. Our aim by doing this in two continents and diverse cities like Cali in Colombia and Zürich in Switzerland is to foster intercultural understanding and personal agency between migrating communities in the city through an art educational context. We believe that by opening a space of decision and election we can affect the micro and macro politics of our contexts through creative means and integration.
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As the content of SIN CURRÍCULO is formed by the individual interests, needs and wishes of the participants, and through conversation and collective action, the participants will learn from each other and by doing that we foster cultural understanding and exchange. Through this participants learn, what they think is useful for themselves.
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We believe that education and art are, necessarily, forms of politics. By offering no content the participant have to become conscious of their processes and effect of their actions with regard to culture, economics, social policy and freedom of expression.