Towards dialogical practices. New crossroads between cultures, politics and pedagogies.

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 Rodrigo, Javier (2007) Dialogical Practices: intersections between critical pedagogy and critical museology. Book-DVD. Es Baluard: Palma de Mallorca.
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Extract:
1 Museums, politics and cultures. Contradictions, expansions and contaminations.

One way of understanding museum practices is to analyse them as cultural systems within a field of tensions. This perspective views museum work as a constant negotiation within the enclaves of the different cultures and subjectivities which museums inhabit, visit or reject. In this sense, museums are subject to a series of forces and elements that make them expand and contract in their dynamics, behaviours and work dimensions. Analysing museums as institutional systems helps us understand them as territories in expansion and conflict. Museums demarcate spaces, identify them, map them in typologies and features and, above all, construct them so that others may experience their geography, features, boundaries and centres.

In other words, museums construct territories so that others may experience their boundaries and borders as temporary citizens within their domains. These territories are unstable and subject to changes, social dynamics, the market and different policies, which is why they are conditioned by their boundaries’ expansions and contractions, the unforeseen modifications of their geographical features. And it is precisely this dynamic territorial quality that makes them “contradictorily” hopeful frameworks: they are always changing and differentiating themselves within the context. Here, contradictory is meant constructively, not because of their tendency to construct and close hegemonic discourse, but rather, thanks to the emergence of a hope of subversion though the performative tensions that emerge within their borders: the tensions between internal practices and external contextual demands. These tensions between the closings and openings of the systems are precisely where museum politics and cultures are established and where museums expand and contract.

Work in Networks and collective pedagogies: challenges for cultural production

Text presented in the framework of the conferences on: Reversible actions. Seminar on art,
education and territory in the Centre d’Arts Contemporànies of Vic. Vic, 7th-8th of November 2008.
 Available on Acvic (2010) : Reversible actions. Art, education and territory. ACVIC Eumo editorial: Vic.

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The aim of this text is to cover three points or objectives that seem necessary to relocate the role of pedagogy and net working in the cultural field.
- The first objective is to interweave cultural production and pedagogical production as two interrelated domains and not as two complementary or supplementary domains. The aim here is to clarify the space occupied by pedagogy with respect to culture and vice versa, and without placing them in a hierarchy.
- This step leads into my second objective; to formulate pedagogical positions within the cultural production and to understand the cultural production in the framework of educational work, as two formulated realities that are interlinked in multiple dimensions as a result of the transversal nature of the collective pedagogies.
- Lastly the intention of my third objective is to understand the highly complex nature of collective learning and the creative outbursts produced by the collective pedagogies in work in networks by means of particular approaches to the theory of networks and the political sciences of participation. This last step involves being able to understand what can be asked of current cultural policies and consequently of a cultural centre, in terms of the production and the distribution of culture in the theory of networks and collective pedagogies.

El trabajo en red y las pedagogías colectivas: retos para la producción cultural

Texto fruto de la coordinación del seminario intenracional de Vic Acciones Reversibles de Noviembre 2008,  y publicado en el libro:
ACVIC (2010) Acciones reversibles: arte , educación y territorio. Acvic y Eumo Editorial: Vic.

El texto intenta revisar desde una aproximación de las redes sociales y las pedagogías criticas qué modelos de producción cultural y políticas serían necesario repensar en nuestros días, si comprendemos las instituciones culturales como un actor social dentro de una red compleja de actores.

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Hacia prácticas dialógicas: nuevos territorios de cruce entre culturas, políticas y pedagogías

Capítulo introducción del libro/dvd  editado de las conferencias europeas del año 2006.
Rodrigo, Javier (ed) (2007) Prácticas dialógicas. Intersecciones entre Pedagogía crítica y Museología Crítica. Museu d ´Árt Contemporani a Mallorca Es Baluard .Palma de Mallorca. Libro+ DVD.

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Dispositivos y ensamblajes: problemas y retos de la distribución y articulación de conocimientos.

Texto producido para el blog de Aualbierta disponible aquí
http://aulabierta.info/node/949

A partir del boom de de los dispositivos de producción colectiva, de las diversas aportaciones de la producción colaborativa en la web 3.0 y otras herramientas de trabajo, este texto intenta indagar en las formas de articulación de prácticas sociales y culturales críticas , remarcando los peligros de las narraciones univocas o la instrumentalización del dispositivo como fin, y no como medio para tejer redes.

La tesis de partida del texto sería la siguiente: el sentido del conocimiento colectivo, del proceso de generar conocimiento libre y de proyectar dispositivos varios “en red”, está en su articulación (o re-articulación entendiendo aquí su reapropiación múltiple) y distribución posterior en las redes sociales, pero no únicamente en la naturaleza técnica del contenedor. Esta sería nuestro punto de partida : Pensar en la efectividad del conocimiento por cómo se dispersa, no quiere decir solamente publicarlo en un weblog, o una wiki, sino pensar en las formas de articulación en las redes sociales, y mediante este proceso, poder generar , siempre con otros, nuevos conocimientos colectivos.

ArtUOM 05/07 participatory catalogue about community museum project

PDF baja calidad, del catálogo participativo del proyecto comunitario de museos denominado artUOM desarrollado durante 3 años entre la Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró y la Universitat Oberta per a Majors de la Universitat de les Illes Balears de Palma de Mallorca. En 3 idiomas: català, castellano, inglés.

PDF in low quality of the participatory catalogue of the museum comunity project named artUOm , developed during 3 years under the partnership of  the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró with  the Universitat Oberta per a Majors ( Life Lonf learning Univrstiy) of the  Universitat de les Illes Balears at Palma de Mallorca.  3 languages: català, castellano, inglés.

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