Caminar descalza y ampliación cognitiva de lugaresUn proyecto de a/r/tografía walking [andar] con estudiantes de ESO

Résumé

The focus of this research project is the importance of generating unforgettable memories in places that we are accustomed to traveling through. In these places, precisely because they form part of our daily life, we usually don’t pay attention to all their possibilities for sensorial research. I propose an artistic action for High School students in two secondary schools in Madrid, in which the teacher, who is simultaneously both artist and researcher, draws on a performative action that has at its center, the action of walking barefoot in a memorable place: Auschwitz, Poland. This action is inspired by the walking methodology that can be defined as a web of artistic, activist and educational practices that disrupt original meaning, inspiring new meanings in new materialism, where critical theories are related with the earth, transmateriality and movement (Springgay and Truman, 2018). In this activity the students experience the act of walking barefoot in the courtyard of their school, through spaces that are especially significant for them