Courses and Seminars

Including Majorities. VI Seminar on Art and Social Inclusion

Dec 1 —— 2, 2016

What are majorities and how should we attend to their needs and interests? This was the main question that the sixth edition of the Seminar on Art and Social Inclusion had to answer. Eminently practical in approach and structured around working sessions, the programme focused on analysing and thinking about the role of museums as spaces that are sensitive to current social and cultural demands.

With this in mind, and in collaboration with Obra Social “la Caixa”, the seminar dealt with issues such as interdisciplinarity, innovation and multiculturalism, along with the need to come up with more efficient strategies to bring cultural institutions closer to the majority of the public. This event was aimed at professionals from the culture and museums sector, cultural and social administrators, development cooperation experts and social agents.

Dates

Dec 1 —— 2, 2016

Inscriptions

€75

Place

Educational Room, Museo Picasso Málaga

Programme

10:30 a.m. Seminar Opening

11:00 a.m. Museums and school failure. The need for a village: learning networks, projects and environments
Mariano Fernández Enguita. Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Education, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

4:00 p.m. Hands-on-learning and building learning environments
Roger Schank. Expert on Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Psychologist and Learning Scientist

5:30 p.m. Serving social and cultural diversity in museums
Mikel Asensio. Doctor of Psychology and Professor of Cognitive Psychology at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Eloísa Pérez Santos. Professor of Personality Psychology, Assessment and Treatment at Universidad Complutense de Madrid

10:30 a.m. *New technologies in learning and inclusion processes at museums
Ernesto Páramo Sureda. Director of Granada’s Parque de las Ciencias
Lluis Noguera. Director of CosmoCaixa, the Obra Social “la Caixa” science museum.

2:00 p.m. Final thoughts and conclusions.