The Museo Picasso Málaga has been holding the Art and Social Participation Seminars since 2011. 

Throughout their solid track record, they have addressed questions that arise from the at times-complex relationships between museums and cultural institutions and today's globalised and diverse society. These questions that do not always have answers but require a forum for thought, dialogue and reflection.  

Concepts such as inclusion, integration and participation have progressively changed over the course of the various editions of the seminar. In addition, the uses and adaptations of the terms have been tailored to the needs of today's society, not only taking into account national realities but also building bridges with other continents such as Africa and South America. 

Through seminars as well as workshops, roundtables and dialogues, topics such as the role of culture as a vehicle for social participation in vulnerable communities, cultural mediation in social improvement processes, the contribution of art as a driver of social change, museum programmes and social inclusion in terms of gender, art and memory, their involvement in the local community, and new forms of digital participation in museums, among others, will be addressed. 

The Art and Social Participation Seminars are one of the lines of work and research developed by the Museo Picasso Málaga and are underpinned by commitment to an understanding of art and culture as a tool for social improvement. 

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Art and Social Participation Seminars

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 <a href="https://obrasociallacaixa.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Obra Social “la Caixa”</a>, 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.

Courses and Seminars

Educational Room, Museo Picasso Málaga

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.

Courses and Seminars

Including Majorities. VI Seminar on Art and Social Inclusion

Dec 1 —— 2, 2016

Programme

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Living with the other me. The challenges of digital networks. XI Seminar of Art and Social Participation

Creating Community. X Seminar on Art and Social Participation

Practice in America. I Seminar of Art and Social Inclusion

II Seminar on Art and Social Integration

III Seminar Art and Social Integration in the Mediterranean World

The Spanish Reality. IV Seminar of Creativity and Social Inclusion

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