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Last face-to-face meeting of INTERSTICE project in Barcelona, 8th and 9th of February.We had the opportunity to meet and share our thoughts in two wonderful spaces: Centre d'Art Santa Mònica and the Espai C at Escola Sagarra. Moreover, the resident artst Rosa Llop joined the meeting and explained her experiences and insights about creating art in a common space, with children also involved in their creative processes....

Last Thursday 9th of February a joint event was held, at the Centre d'Art Santa Mònica in Barcelona.Delegates from all partners, together with coordinators Gemma París and Sílvia Blanch, participated in the presentation of the results that are already available at the webpage: three of the videos, the virtual artistic museum, materials from the research and an example of the training course of education students.A visual narrative was displayed, with significant pictures ...

Next Friday, 20th of January 2022, the forth multiplier of INTERSTICE project will be held in Bologna, organized by local partners at Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna and Mode – Museo Officina dell’Educazione; and hosted by the Centro Studio Didattica delle Arti. The event will start with a welcome speech by Chiara Panciroli, followed by the presentation of INTERSTICE processes and products, by all the Italian members. They will focus on the IO3-Visual Artistic ...

On the 19th of November 2022 the third multiplier event of INTERSTICE was held, at the Espai Cultura Fundació 1959, in Sabadell (Barcelona).The materials that are the results of the project were presented to an audience of 70 people (teachers, professionals of cultural sector, artists, midwives and students of the master's degree in Psychology of Education from the UAB): detailes and updates were given about the methodological guide, the pedagogical audio-visual material and the...

INTERSTICE partners are ready and exited to meet again on the 3rd October, in Stavanger (Norway), hosted by Kristen Halle and Siri Dybwik from University of Stavanger.This meeting will be the perfect framewok to reviseall the intellectual outputs, being some of them in their almost definitive version; and to discuss the feedbacks that we're receving about them, in order to improve our work's quality.Moreover, from the 4th to the 6th of October we'll participate in different training activities ...

From the 28th of June to the 2nd of July, all partners of INTERSTICE projects will meet in Bath, to celebrate their third transnational meeting and to participate to their training, organized by Penny Hay from Bath SPA University, within the Forest of Imagination. In this occasion, an open multiplier event will be held, on the 1st of July from 14h to 17h. After the welcoming speech by Dr. Dan Allen and Dr. Kristin Doern, from the School of Art and Design, artist Rosa Llop will deliver a ...

On Wednesday 25^th May, artists Rosa Llop led one of the last sessions of the training course that has been developed within the INTERSTICE project (intellectual output 5). This experience-based session was held at the Primary school Josep Maria de Sagarra (Barcelona), where children, UAB students and teachers could think together, though a co-creation process, about the contribution of artistic practices for the role of educators, and the role of art in fostering adults’ and ...

The intellectual output 5 of INTERSTICE project (training course for education students) is currently being developed in partnership with different schools, cultural centers and artists. After the participation of Rosa Llop, Hangar.org, Escola Sagarra and La Cappella, this week UAB students (degrees of Early Childhood and Primary Education) had a workshop with Helena Cabo from laSala. The goal of the session was to deepen into the relationship between adult and child, through artistic ...

Next week INTERSTICE partners and collaborators will participate in different training activities, organized by UniBo. On Wednesday 23^rd of March, the team will visit Reggio Children – Loris Malaguzzi International Centre: a place of encounter and exchange for people and organizations who innovate in education and culture. Loris Malaguzzi Foundation produces research and innovation in education for all ages, collectives and settings, from the Reggio Emilia approach. Later on, a...

"Entrepensar" is a methodology for generative research used to mediate in collective processes, that applies non-discursive languages as a tool to explore, understand and collectively question reality. In this session, the artist Rosa Llop will apply the methodology with a dual purpose: on the one hand, to explore the policies of representation of time, and on the other, to share with students the methodological structure of the action in order to that they may replicate it in their day to day ...

On the 17th of February 2022 Gemma París will deliver a speech titled "INTERSTICE: encontres entre artistes, infants i educadores", in a seminar which is open for students of Education Sciences. The event will be held at the Faculty of Education Sciences and Sport Blanquerna of the Universitat Ramon Llull (Blanquerna), in Barcelona.The artist and co-IP of the project will explore the links and contaminations between art and education, which allow the co-creation of peer ...

From the 17^th to the 21^st of November, INTERSTICE members attended different training activities within the elPetit festival and the VI International Encounter of Arts for (early) Childhood, both organized by laSala. The learning program included observation sessions at the schools that collaborate with the project (specifically, with the intellectual outputs 4 (Peer Learning Methodology) and 6 (Research on Peer Learning Methodology); different shows and performances in ...

On the 17th and 18th November we finally had our first ever face-to-face translational meeting, at the UAB, within the framework of elPetit festival (organized by laSala). Members of UAB, Bath SPA University, Università di Bologna, Universitetet I Stavanger and laSala could catch up on the different intellectual output, have a global view of INTERSTICE and work jointly. More specifically, we had a work session on the six main concept of the project: creativity, critical thinking, ...

During July 2021 we are starting to work more vividly on two of the intellectual outputs of INTERSTICE project: IO4 – Peer learning methodology, and IO6 – Research on peer learning methodology. Peer learning experiences will be developed between children, teachers and artists, generating an interstitial space between Art and Education, where the observation, interaction and active participation of all stakeholders are fundamental elements. Artists will participate in Early ...

This year, as well as continuing our ‘Virtual Forest’ online presence, Forest of Imagination will include a series of multisensory pop up events and installations along the theme of  ‘Gathering Perspectives on the Landscape City.’ Locations include Bath Spa University’s Locksbrook Campus, Bath City Farm, The Secret Garden at Batheaston, Beckford’s Tower, The Holburne Museum and The Egg Theatre. Forest of Imagination is open to all and actively ...

Today we launch the website of the project “INTERSTICE - Encounters between artists, children and educators” with the aim to approach the activities we will be implementing in the following months to all those people interested in art, and specifically in the importance of art to enhance children education.   The project aims to influence the learning outcomes of university students of the Early Childhood and Primary Education degree by incorporating innovative experiences ...

On November 20^th 2020 our colleague Penny Hay (BSU) delivered the conference “Children are natural artists in environments of encounter” in the framework of the “Festival el Més petit de tot”, organized by our partner “La Sala”.   In this conference, Prof. Hay shared the results of her collaborative research at Bath Spa University (UK) and discuss the topic addressed in her doctoral dissertation: “Children as Artists: how can ...

The kick-off meeting of the INTERSTICE project took place online on November 2nd. This first meeting was useful to introduce the members of the participating teams, as well as to establish the general lines of work, adjust the schedule and agree on the main aspects related to its daily management. Representatives of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Laughter and Children's Shows Association, Universitetet and Stavanger, Bath Spa University and Alma Mater Studiorum - Universita 'di ...