How can we use art, community activities, and media to bring people together?

Speaker(s):

Rosario Aguilar, Newcastle Universtiy

Abstract:

In the Curiosity Lab setting we’ll be able to work in groups to discuss different approaches that we have to this question. It would be useful to think about how to create community, or bring people together who might think are very different from each other, before thinking on a specific policy outcome (i.e., environmental policy, etc.) The goal is to think about strategies to create networks/community who might disagree politically, but that disagreement won’t affect the core of the community. We could discuss theories that would explain how one strategy can bring people together, so we know what to expect and why! During the session, we could work in groups to think about what ideas could carry on for the project. We could also discuss whether there could be many projects, or a large umbrella project looking at different settings.