CA23117 - Connecting Critical Pedagogies, Inclusive Art Forms and Alternative Barometers for Urban Sustainability (CIRCUL’ARTs)

CIRCUL’ARTs develops an innovative methodology to stimulate the emergence of solutions towards more circular and sustainable cities, based on a ‘dynamic ecology of knowledge’. This implies new ways of co-creating knowledge, sharing it and transforming it into action, orientating our learning towards more practical action. Most of all, this new methodology consists in stepping out of a Euro-centric perspective and taking into consideration plural voices and needs, ancestral and indigenous knowledge, creative micro-strategies developed at a local level – a body of information that has remained hitherto unconsidered.
We envision bringing this knowledge into a global circulation, appealing to artistic practice – as a form of creating information exchange in a participative and creative way and of producing topic solutions. Art, and the de-colonisation of thought and knowledge will allow us to develop a methodology that is in itself sustainable and circular.
This innovative methodology will be applied to 3 working areas in urban circular economies, according to the analysis of particular case-studies (in the locations of our members and partners) . Our project is therefore organised around 6 thematic working groups (corresponding to our three working areas plus 3 creative methodologies), and a 7th one that brings together recommendations for the development of innovative creative methodologies in the field of circular economies and disseminates them:
1. Food systems
2. Construction process/housing
3. Public spaces
4. Visual arts – creative methodologies for Circular Food/Habitat/Public Space
5. Performative Arts – creative methodlogies for Circular Food/Habitat/Public Space
6.  Urban Design – creative methodlogies for Circular Food/Habitat/Public Space
7. Recommendations and Dissemination through critical pedagogies.