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Arts & Communication Photography and museums for senior students

images and artistic education, as well as in the knowledge spaces; (ii) understanding the importance of museums
of museum spaces and art galleries. Contemporary art and from the perspective of cultural transmission; (iii) designing
other artistic expressions, including museums of different and creating images coherently through lived experience;
types, were approached. Combining theoretical and (iv) encouraging personal artistic practice in the workshops
practical elements, and incorporating derive as an element that are given during classes and visits; (v) addressing
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that enhances creativity, participants were trained to create the city’s museums as a key element of visual culture;
photographs with a communicative intention to establish (vi) walking around the city as an esthetic practice;
and legitimize spaces that combine debate and training. (vii) creating images, and photographing details, elements,
Guy Debord defines the derive as a mode of experimental objects, interiors, landscapes and exteriors; (viii) revisiting
behavior linked to the conditions of urban society. Derive the city as a typographic museum, and detecting the esthetics
literally means drifting, referring to wandering through an of urban letters; and (ix) observing the lights and shadows of
urban area in small groups of people. the city, and appreciating the magic of the liminal zones.
We offer the possibility of learning about museum We emphasize the use of arts-based research in creating
processes from a broad cultural vision, with the intention images and encouraging observation. A paradigm shift
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of promoting flexible areas of participation, thus bringing is proposed to change the focus from the interpretation of
them closer to the mechanics of art and images from images toward a transformation of reality that promotes
a current perspective. We also promote a model of their use, through a performative approach, exploiting
workshops among adult audiences to train them when it their pedagogical possibilities. Issues of gender and
comes to creating photographs and facing the challenges diversity are also incorporated during the explanations
of the future of museums as spaces for dialog. and debates in class, using a virtual museum, which the
We encourage students to observe and create images, students can consult both on their mobile phones and
establishing a schedule of sessions with original titles in through the projected presentations.
each of them: The study used a mixed research methodology,
• Session 1. Identity (presentation of participants and combining a descriptive-exploratory qualitative one and
explanation of the course, dynamics, and intentions of an artistic methodology, and adopted a socioeducational
each planned activity) approach, taking into account incidence factors such as
• Session 2. Territories (visiting the websites of the city’s students’ age and teacher involvement. An ethnographic
museums) perspective of the research was adopted, focusing on
• Session 3. Voluptuousness (first visits with practical teaching innovation to promote educational change.
photography workshop) As the research takes place at the same time during
• Session 4. Privacy (visits with photography workshop) teaching, awareness of the interactions that take place
• Session 5. Memory (theoretical class on the creative in the group as a whole that constitutes the educational
possibilities of photography, based on the work that event and the people involved can be made. Data
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the students are doing) were collected while teaching was ongoing, and in an
• Session 6. Collecting (visits and discussion groups, inductive way that a participant’s observation of the
analyzing images created by participants) critical moments of learning, both the difficulties and the
• Session 7. Derive/Drifts (students are organized in benefits, is developed during an educational activity or a
pairs or teams and they are assigned museums to visit) tutoring session. The responses of the participants, their
• Session 8. Practice (new drift and preparation of the expressions, and narratives are collected in the teaching–
final work, i.e., a group video) learning processes. 20
• Session 9. Vanity (theoretical class with issues related The research data were collected mainly by means of
to the current situation of digital museums analyzing the images created by the students and critically
• Session 10. Memories (last session to review and reviewing them in different teaching work sessions.
comment on the students’ work). The information collected is classified into two main
The main objective of the pedagogical activity aspects: (i) the artistic results of what has been learned
analyzed is to promote an approach to learning art and and (ii) the artistic results of the didactic activities as an
images in museums and other heritage environments observed environment. For the study sample, the teaching
in an enjoyable mood. Among the subsidiary objectives, experience itself, as well as the past materials prepared by
we highlight the following: (i) Approaching the main the students, was taken as a reference. Through learning
concepts of photography, and applying the theoretical and participation in artistic activities, healthy habits are
basis to the possibilities of creating images in exhibition promoted, favoring interaction with senior students.

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