Dr Anton Franks (Centre for Education Studies, University of Warwick)

Date: Wednesday 17th May 2017

Time: 1 - 2.30pm

Where: C1.11/15 Social Sciences

This session draws from thoughts and notes on research in progress with Serpentine Galleries' (SG) education curators' World Without Walls programme, a programme made up of a series of community-based arts projects with children and young people in north Westminster. The focus will be on ‘Changing Play’, a project which is a collaboration between Serpentine Galleries, an early years children's centre and artist Albert Potrony, who was commissioned to work with nursery children. Albert has done work on participatory and collaborative installations. In this iteration of the project, Albert provided a range of scrap and building materials, PVC mirrors, torches and other bits and pieces for children to play with in the nursery's in- and outdoor spaces. Education curators worked with Albert as mediators and participants – what they wanted was to ‘let the children lead’. What lessons might there be for participatory arts projects? What implications might there be for people in education and schooling, and what available theories may be drawn from to illuminate the lessons from the findings?