CONNECTING CRITICAL PEDAGOGIES, INCLUSIVE ART FORMS
AND ALTERNATIVE BAROMETERS FOR URBAN SUSTAINABILITY (CIRCUL’ARTS)
Cost Action: CA23117
STATION # 1
DATES: 8th -10th September 2025 (Conference and Training School),
11th September 2025 (Core Gorup Meeting and Film Screening with Artists Meeting).
Schedule : h9.30- h18
Event Duration: 4 days.
Locations: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme /FMSH (54, Boulevard Raspail, 75006 Paris)
Maison de l'Amerique Latine (217, Boulevard Saint-Germain, 75007 Paris )
Detailed Program:
8th-10th September: Conference: FMSH (Room B01-01)
8th-10th September: Training school: FMSH FMSH (Forum).
11th September: h9.00-12.00. CORE GROUP MEETING Maison de l'Amerique Latine (Auditorium)
11th September: h13.00 -h18.00, FILM SCREENING WITH ARTISTS MEETING, Maison de l'Amerique Latine (Auditorium).
Authors
Agata Pięt and Isabel Carvalho
SUBGROUP 01
Decolonizing urban interventions
It is at the core of the CIRCUL'ARTs to develop decolonizing strategies enabling innovative methodologies for urban circularity that in themselves are sustainable and circular. This requires first and foremost a decolonization of mainstream dominant Eurocentric understandings of sustainability. Hence, this subgroup reviews and discusses theories of decoloniality to develop a theoretical framework and principles of decolonial social interventions in urban spaces and places accommodating and fostering socially sustainable urban ecosystems of pluriversal inclusivity preventing eco-social extractivism.
PROGRAM: CONFERENCE
(Forum, FMSH)
8th September 2025
9.30-10.00 : Welcome Coffee
10.00-10.15 : Marta Jecu: Introduction Speeches and presentation of day's schedule.
10:15 – 10:40: WG1 Leaders Paolo Do and Carla Inguaggiato: Plural Schooling and Critical Pedagogies (including Q&A)
10:40 – 11:00: Maria Argyriou (University of the Aegean): Sensory Pedagogy and Alternative Forms of Assessment: Learning Mappings through Art
11:00 – 11:20: Ana Paola Morel: Pluriversal Pedagogies: Weaving Belonging to the Earth
11:20 – 11:40: Analia Capponi: Singing as a practice of childhood – Towards an understanding of children’s political agency and voice in culturally diverse societies
11:40 – 11:50: Coffee Break
11:50 – 12:10: Muhammet Bas: Multidisciplinary Pedagogies for Inclusive Learning Environments in Urban Margins
13.15 – 14.15 : Lunch break
14.15 – 15.00 : WG 5 Leaders Aurea Mota and Giovanbattista Tusa: Connecting 'natures' in the urban context (Including Q&A)
15.00 – 15.20 : Finat Cimsit Kos, ‘Responsive Ground: Transcalar Interventions in Urban Regeneration’
15.20 - 15.40 : :Viktorija Mangaroska, ‘Urban Sustainability and Circular Arts: Reimagining Etno Selo as a Cultural-Ecological Educational Platform in Skopje North Macedonia’
15.40 - 15.50 :: Coffee Break
15.50 – 16.10 : Onur Birol, ‘Immersive Storytelling and Digital Reconstruction as Performative Pedagogy in Reclaiming Ancient Urban Ecologies’
16.10 - 16.30: Freyja van den Boom, ‘Paris 2030 Climate Futures’
16.30 – 16.50 : Q&A for the case studies
16.50 – 17.30 : Keynote Experts Communication : Prof. Dr. Carlos Alberto Torres, 'Global Citizenship Education, Sustainability policies, and ecopedagogy: An agro-ecological experience in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina'.
9th September 2025
10.15 - h11.00: : WG 3 Leaders Agata Pięt and Isabel Carvalho: Urban installations and gathering points. (Including Q&A)
11.00 – 11.15 : Rita Ochoa & Alessia Allegri: “Intermittent City: Developing Micro-Laboratories of Coexistence in the Age of Adaptation”
11.15 - 11.30 : Stella Schroeder: “Tactical Urbanism and Placemaking: Community-Led Urban Installation Methodologies”
11.30 - 11.45 : Kinga Kimic: “Greenery for CIRCUL’ARTs”
11.45 - 11.55 : Coffee Break
11.55 – 12.10 : Margarida Brito Alves: “On temporary uses and communities – T-FACTOR project in Trafaria”
12.10 - 12.30 : Q&A for the casestudies
13.15 – 14.15 : Lunch break
14.15 – 15.00 : WG 2 Leaders Slavica Janeslieva, Katarzyna Cytlak, Hanna Musiol : Urban rituals, performances, street theatre, music.
Slavica Janeslieva : "Skopje Urban Stories: site specific artistic practices".
15.00 – 15.20 :Medina Spahiu Çeko: "Revival of historical buildings through Art: The Case of Prizren"
15.20 - 15.40 : Hanna Musiol: “From art interventions to community rituals: Site-specific practices for cocreation, reciprocity, and durational care in environmental knowing”
15.40 - 15.50 : Coffee Break
15.50 – 16.10 : Katarzyna Cytlak: 'Dreaming of water:A ch’ixi practices by Ceclia Vucuña'
16.10 - 16.30 : Q&A for the case studies
16.30 – 17.00 : Report on Training School Day 1 and 2 (8th and 9th of September).
10th September 2025
10.15 - h11.00: : WG 4 Leader (Representative) Gerald Leindecker : Innovation through creative and circular technologies. 'Cirular Ecosystems on an Urban Scale ' . (Including Q&A)
11.00 – 11.20 : Renee Wansdronk: Emporium - Zero emission building concept - AR/VR/XR AI avatar tool
11.00 – 11.20; Aleksandra Stupar :‘Belgrade urban oases: Shaping the integrative nodes for environmental and social sustainability’ + Eleni Meletiadou: “Reclaimed Spaces: Empowering Migrant Women and Youth through Temporary Public Installations”.
11.20 - 11.40 : Songül Aral: "Integration of Sustainable Technical Basic Craft Knowledge: Weaving and Knitting Applications and Prototypes."
11.40 - 11.50 : Coffee Break
11.50 – 12.10 : Q&A for the case-studies
12.10– 13.15 : Key Note Experts Communications and film screening: Odile Burluraux : 'Selection of artist’s videos from the Musée d’art moderne de Paris’s collection' (Part 1).
13.15 – 14.15 : Lunch break
14.15 – 15.00 : WG 6 Rahmin Bender-Salazar, Christian Roth, Breanne Pitt: Dissemination and Impact: Circular Economy, Arts, Educational Futures, & Systems Thinking.
15.00 – 15.20 : Roxana Dela Fiamor - Focus on Plan of Action for Communicating with the Public
15.20 - 15.40 : Eleni Meletiadou - Frameworks Co-Creation and Participatory Workshops as Dissemination (Pre-Recorded Video)
15.40 - 15.50 : Coffee Break
15.50 – 16.10 : Banu Yucel Toy - Training framework for dissemination workshops regarding urban design and circular cities
16.10 - 16.30 : Q&A for the case studies
16.30 – 17.00 : Film screening Expert Odile Burluraux: 'Selection of artist’s videos from the Musée d’art moderne de Paris’s collection' (Part 2).
17.00 – 17.30: Report on Training School Day 3.
PROGRAM: TRAINING SCHOOL
(FMSH, Room B01-01)
8th September 2025. 10.00 – 16.30: Trainer Françoise Vergés (France, La Reunion)
9th September 2025: 10.00 – 16.30: Trainer Carlos Alberto Torres (Argentina)
10th September 2025: 10.00 – 16.30: Trainers Carina Maria Guimarães Moreira with Carlos Henrique Aurélio dos Santos (Brasil).
Project
CIRCUL'ARTS (Cost Action/ European Cooperation in Science and Technology)
Chair: Marta Jecu
Vice Chair: Sandrine Simon
Scientific Representative: Filipa Lourenço
Science Officer: Mariola Kapidani
Administrative Officer: Carmencita Malimban
(consult complete list of leadership positions on: https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA23117/
Bios Trainers and Experts:
Carina Maria Guimarães Moreira is a professor and coordinator of the Graduate Program in Performing Arts at the Federal University of São João del Rei (Minas Gerais, Brazil). She is a also a playwrighter. studying on popular culture, political theater, and Afro-Brazilian culture, with an emphasis on the relationship between theater and class struggle. She created and coordinated the Coletivo Fuzuê, a university theater group. Carlos Henrique Aurélio dos Santos (Carlos Toindé), is a researcher, artist, and doctoral candidate investigating the Bantu terreiro worldview as a creative approach in the performing arts. He conducts research on ancestry, ritual-terreiro spaces, and theatrical production. He is also a member of Coletivo Fuzuê.
Carlos Alberto Torres, Distinguished Professor, and former Director of the Latin American Center at UCLA (School of Education and Information Centre, Los Angeles, US). He is a world renowned political sociologist of education, born in Argentina. He is the Founding Director of the Paulo Freire Institute in São Paulo, Brazil with Paulo Freire; Buenos Aires, Argentina; and at the UCLA. Dr. Torres has been a Visiting Professor in universities in North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa. He was the inaugural holder of the UNESCO UCLA Chair on Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education, Department of Education, UCLA (2016-2020). Dr. Torres has authored more than 62 books.
Françoise Vergès (Reunion Island/France) is political theorist, historian, film producer, independent curator, decolonial feminist activist and public educator.She is currently a Senior Fellow Researcher at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialization, University College, London. Her books include: Programme de désordre absolu: Décoloniser le musée, La fabrique, Paris 2023, Une théorie féministe de la violence — Pour une politique antiraciste de la protection, La Fabrique éditions, novembre 2020, A Decolonial Feminism, Pluto Books, 2021, The Wombs of Women: Race, Capital, Feminism, Duke University Press, 2020, Monsters and Revolutionaries: Colonial Family Romance and Métissage, Duke University Press, 1999
Odile Burluraux is a chief curator at the Museum of Modern Art, Paris (MAM) for contemporary art and in charge of video collections, organizing large group shows that have included international artists since the 1990s. In 2019 she organised a a major retrospective of Hans Hartung with 300 works. In 2021, she curated The Power of My Hands, with 16 women artists living in the African continent and the African diaspora (in collaboration with Suzana Sousa). The same year, the curator was invited by the ASIA NOW Art Fair and showed 10 Iranian women artists, exploring migration, identity, and female subjectivities. She has edited various artists monographies and catalogues.
PROGRAM MAISON DE L'AMERIQUE LATINE
(Auditorium)
11th September: h9.00-12.00. CORE GROUP MEETING Maison de l'Amerique Latine (Auditorium)
11th September: h13.00 -h18.00, FILM SCREENING WITH ARTISTS MEETING, Maison de l'Amerique Latine (Auditorium).
Program Film Screening
CIRCUL’ARTS ON FILM
Artistic Practices, Critical Pedagogies and Ecological Thinking
Film Screening and Meetings with the artists
1. Maurice Dubroca (France): Frans Krajcberg, Portrait d’une Révolte , 8 min. (Presented by Eric Darmon, film producer).
2. Bianca Dacosta (Brazil) : Interior da Terra, 17 min. (ARTIST PRESENT).
3. Gustavo Caboco (Brazil), Kanau'kyba, 11 min.
4. Vincent Voillat (France), Le centre, c'est les pierres, vidéo sur smartphone, 8 min. HD. 2020 (ARTIST PRESENT)
5. Luis Cyprien Rials (France), Babel, 2023, 12 min
6. Paulo Tavares (Brazil), Non-human Rights, 4min
7. Capucine Vever (France), Ô Diryanké, 21min, Dérives Alpines, 19 min.
8. Rosell Meseguer (Spain), Lithium, Copper, Iron, Salpetre, Total: 26 min. (ARTIST PRESENT)
9. Nana Offoriata (Ghana), Nowhere Else But Here, 24 min
10. MadeYouLook (Molemo Moiloa and Nare Mokgotho) (South Africa), Menagano, 5 min.
11. Sofia Yala (Angola), Constellation of Dust, Slideshow (5 min.)
12. Arquitetura Expandida (Colombia), La Comunidad dela Pala, 20 min. (ARTIST PRESENT)
13. Left Hand Rotation (Spain/Portugal), Sem manifestação (5 min), Bye, Bye and Thanks for nothing (5 min) , Tigre e Yaguarete, (27 min).
ARTISTS BIOS
Vincent Voillat (www.voilla.tv) Vincent Voillat lives and works in Paris. Graduated from the Fine Arts Schools of Grenoble and Le Fresnoy (2003). He is represented by Galerie Éric Mouchet Paris and teaches sculpture at the École Supérieure d’Art et de Design TALM-Tours.
Gustavo Caboco (https://almeidaedale.com.br/artistas/gustavo-caboco/ ) born in Curitiba, Roraima (1989). He identifies himself as a indigenous Wapichana visual artist. He works with drawing, painting, text, embroidery, animation and performance and proposes ways of reflecting on the displacements of indigenous folks and on the recovery of memory.
Sofia Yala (https://www.sofiayala.art/) is an Angolan/Portuguese photographer. She has a BA in African Studies and an MA in Anthropology & Visual Cultures and an MA in Arts: Film & Photography in the UK. Yala's artwork explores archival material, to reshape memories and experiences.
Arquitetura Expandida (https://arquitecturaexpandida.org/ ) is a Bogotá based collective, founded in 2010, working on the intersection between art, architecture, design. Their activism is based on collaborations with social communities, often involving their grassroots footage. They act in defense of social rights. They have showed their work in various international museum, including Centre Pompidou, Paris in 2017.
Left Hand Rotation (https://www.lefthandrotation.com/) is an artistic collective active since 2005 that develops projects that combine urban intervention and art activism, in defense of communitries and their social rights, involving performance, recording, foto and video manipulation.
Louis Cyprien Rials (www.louiscyprienrials.com ) is a French artist whose artistic work is based on extensive travelling in conflict zones. He is currently based in Iraq . His most recent show was at the Institut Français (Baghdad) and the Fondation Le Corbusier (Paris), 2024.
Nana Oforiatta Ayim (www.nanaoforiattaayim.com) historian, writer, and filmmaker, living between Ghana, Lisbon and London. Her research is dedicated to Ayan, a history telling form in Ghana and Afahye, a historical exhibition, Gesamtkunstwerk model. Her novel, The God Child, was published by Bloomsbury, UK & US (2019, 2020). She curated Ghana’s first Venice Biennale pavilion, founded the ANO Institute of Arts and Knowledge and the Pan-African Cultural Encyclopaedia.
Paulo Tavares (www.paulotavares.net) is a Brazilian architect, researcher, and writer, working on ecology and territories. He wrote Forest Law (2014), Memória da Terra (2018), and Des-Habitat (2019). He published in Harvard Design Magazine, the Oslo Architecture Triennale, the Istanbul Design Biennial, and the São Paulo Biennial. He teaches at the University of Brasília.
MADEYOULOOK (www.made-you-look.net) is a Johannesburg-based interdisciplinary art collective founded in 2009 by Molemo Moiloa and Nare Mokgotho. Their work focuses on re-examining everyday Black practices in South Africa, often through installations, gatherings, and research, aiming to challenge and re-interpret societal norms. In 2024 they represented South Africa at the Venice Bienniale.
Capucine Vever (www.capucinevever.com) born in 1986 in Paris, lives and works in Bobigny, develops a contextual practice centered on the territory, as an ecological, geographical or cultural presence. Her work has been presented in the Chapelle de l’Oratoire of the Musée d’Arts de Nantes (2025), the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen (2025), the Grantham Foundation for Art and the Environment (Quebec, 2025) etc.
Rosell Meseguer (www.rosellmeseguer.com) is born in 1976, she lives and works in Spain. She has a constant interest in the subject of mineral colonization. In her projects, she expands geopolitical reading with artistic questions. Her projects include fieldwork, archival research, and historical research. Her work is materialized in artist books, installations, drawings, printmaking, video, and photography.
Bianca Dacosta (https://www.biancadacosta.com/) Through a multifaceted practice combining film, photography, installation and sculpture, Brazilian artist Bianca Dacosta works on the memory of territories, where natural and sensitive resources intertwine, within a postcolonial and anti-extractivist approach. Her work draws on natural, scientific and symbolic elements to question endangered nature in the Anthropocene, the imaginaries of colonized lands and organic forms, sketching a reconciliation between humanity and its environment.
Éric Darmon, ethnologue de formation, est un réalisateur et producteur françaisfondateur de la société de productions de films documentaires Mémoire Magnétique (1982). Filmographie: Au soleil même la nuit (1994), Les Coulisses de la création (des portraits documentaires des compositeurs - Philip Glass, Pierre Henry, Steve Reich, Heictor Villa-Lobos etc.), des vidéos et des installations pour des expositions, des performances d’artistes. Il produit Frans Krajcberg, Portrait d'une révolte de Maurice Dubroca, Mémoires Tziganes. L'autre Génocide de Juliette Jourdan.
Marie Gayet is an independent curator and art critic, lives and works in Paris. Her recently published Écritures transversales (2025, Edition Caza d’Oro) and published in various journals (Esse, Artais, etc.) and catalogs (Fondation Bullukian, L’art dans les chapelles, etc.). She works for the Observatoire de l’Art Contemporain and teaches in IESA and Formation Drouot. She is AICA France member and a member of the Board of Directors of C-E-A (see profile on www.aicafrance.org)
Marta Jecu (www.martajecu.com, www.exodusstations.com) is researcher, professor at Universidade Lusofona and independent curator. Her curatorial work is research oriented. She initiated various research and curatorial projects on the role of contemporary art for new museology, such as EXODUS STATIONS (www.exodusstations.com) and Carim (https://carimproject.com/) and edited various volumes on natural, immaterial and material heritage.
