IN-PERSON: Learning. Life. Work
Abstract
We begin this research with education as a practice of hospitality and humbleness. Since it helps us produce experiences and dynamic processes that relativize many of the issues we have naturalized today within the legitimate and representable knowledge system. The commitment to education must enter into the dispute of what values and ways of life we are building not only in our schools but also in our cities, in our public space. The degree of autonomy of the weakest will depend on how the city is thought, articulated, and programmed. From this point of view, public space is not different in concept but in needs and uses. One of the most potent symbols of modern urban landscapes is the lawn. There are few options for managing urban lawns, regardless of their use and location in the city; they are mainly designed to be perceived as ornamental. Thus, the objective of our research falls on the notion of Social Green proposed by Herta Hammerbacher as an alternative approach based on an intimate scale to spaces for play, recreation, and community spirit forger. Although lawns are often assumed to be relatively uniform, they can be diverse and rich in their relationship with native and allochthonous species. In addition to recreational and aesthetic benefits to people, lawns provide ecological services such as water filtration, floral resources for pollinators, and urban heat island effect moderation. It also alludes to how much remains to be seen just walking on and looking at the ground.
Dr. Ainhoa Akutain, artist. Extraordinary Ph.D. Award (Summa Cum Laude, 2017). Associate Professor in the Area of Sculpture, Fine Arts, University of Basque Country/EHU. She is a member of the Research Group KREAREak_Creation in Art and Applied Aesthetics for the City, the Landscape, and the Community. She also participates in COL/PARK. Parks to Inhabit the Collapse/EHU; Artist Pedagogy Research SAR. University of the Arts Helsinki; Art and the Transformations of the Common Space of the Territory/EHU. She is a visiting professor at Universidad de La Republica/UDELAR, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Dr. Imanol Esperesate, architect at MUGA Arquitectura Studio (Bilbao), collaborator of the Research Group KREAREak_Creation in Art and Applied Aesthetics for the City, the Landscape, and the Community, and member of the Research Group Art and the Transformations of the Common Space of the Territory/EHU. He got his Ph.D. in 2022 with the thesis “Through landscape, from being in to being: ‘Upper Lawn’ and pre-architecture” at ETSA UPV/EHU. He has participated in and collaborated with several studies and interdisciplinary working groups in various urban and landscape projects.
Dr. Xabier Laka, sculptor. Associate Professor in the Area of Sculpture, Fine Arts, University of Basque Country/EHU. Researcher on creation and applied aesthetics between Art, Architecture, and Nature. He is a member of the Research Group KREAREak_Creation in Art and Applied Aesthetics for the City, the Landscape, and the Community and Principal Investigator of the Research Group Art and the Transformations of the Common Space of the Territory/EHU. Co-founder of Taller de Aia (1977), an unprecedented educational experience in the Basque context, where the aim was to approach the arts as the fundamental subject that directed all the other areas.
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Wednesday 12th June, 2024