Participation, empowerment, identity and creativity in three good practices of art

Participación, empoderamiento, identidad y creatividad en tres buenas prácticas de arte

Objetives Reflect on three good practices where art, education and social action are especially present: Riborquestra, Basketball Beat and Mestizo Space. The main objective is to formulate a thoughtful speech in order to help build a transferable look of the community artistic process of these proposals.

Methodology. The methodology used is the Case Study. Analyzing three paradigmatic cases, where the use of art is significant, following qualitative techniques, the voices of their creators are incorporated, in order to be analyzed from four relevant dimensions: participation, empowerment, identity and creativity.

Results. The descriptions of each one of these artistic practices are presented, their origins, context and specific objectives with respect to art and socio-educational action, implementation and the scope of users it serves. Furthermore, a thoughtful analysis is transversely presented, studying from said dimensions: participation, empowerment, identity and creativity, for understanding and transfer in the social environment.

Conclusions. The qualitative paradigm in which they are embedded reveals the enormous discursive possibilities that each one of them can generate around art, community art (AC) and community cultural development (DCC). The dimensions empowerment, participation, creativity and identity construction, not only indicate aspects that unite them, but they make clear a particular discourse within the same horizontality of each specific self-definition. The interesting thing about research and reflect on art, from real educational and artistic practices, offers the possibility of suggesting, furthermore, anchor points suggest where to find different tracks susceptible to transfer in the educational social environment. Clues that could be relevant for screening at different educational, participatory and cultural contexts.