Art Easel: : Una propuesta urbana desde la pedagogía, el arte y el juego

Abstract

Art Easel is a proposal from pedagogy, art, play and architecture to involve citizens and especially children in the use of public space. This project was born as a result of an international competition proposed by City of Vancouver's VIVA, Vancouver, a "public space innovation platform and tactical urbanism of the city of Vancouver that offers short-term actions to inspire and allow long-term changes" . VIVA and the Vancouver Public Space Network organized the Life Between Umbrellas contest. It aimed to generate ideas for play and life in public space, especially on rainy days. Under this umbrella, a series of sessions and workshops with children and families are established that will result in a series of proposals linked to the international ideas competition. This article is an investigation carried out in parallel to the process of the project, its hypotheses, genesis, its previous stages and its subsequent conclusions. It is an applied research where pedagogical contextualization is especially important. The process and the final achievements constitute an example of the activation of the public space through art and make visible the work with children and families while exposing active methodologies in the field of co-design and participation linked to artistic education.