Saviotti, A (2024) Hacking Art Education. Arte Útil as an educational methodology to foster change for curriculum planning. Doctoral thesis, Liverpool John Moores University.

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Abstract

This thesis examines the principles of Arte Útil and their application in art education to formulate a new methodology for the composition of the curriculum as a tool for change in both museums and universities. I contend that, previous attempts to apply a change in curriculum planning that emerged in the context of socially engaged art avoided outlining a methodology to be employed in educational institutions. Therefore, this thesis’ overarching aim is to demonstrate how Arte Útil, in applying both art-based methods in tandem with educational methodologies - proposed by socially engaged art, feminist-engaged pedagogy and the undercommons – for the conception of the curriculum furthers institutional change on many levels. What emerged from applying a qualitative method during action research and from the case studies analysed for this thesis, is that artists often infiltrate the institution of education through their artworks. The institution typically welcomes their intervention as if it was ‘just’ art when, in fact, the implementation of curriculum changes. Hence, I argue how unconventional education models, framed as Arte Útil, could be successfully implemented within schools, universities and museums. The result is the development of long-term pedagogic sustainability through processes of participatory institutional hacking. Undertaken with multiple cohorts of students and communities of practice, this thesis situates across museum studies and education. It concludes in the production of a curriculum-as-a-toolkit – such as Hacking (Art) Education, available as a website - that includes a series of resources in the form of syllabi, scores for workshops, and exercises, a glossary and a timeline that can be used to infiltrate schools, universities, and museums through the application of the principles of Arte Útil that constitute a new educational methodology.

Item Type:	Thesis (Doctoral)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Arte Útil; Critical Pedagogy; Hacking Education; The Undercommons; Socially Engaged Art; Feminist Engaged Pedagogy; Usological Turn; Constituent Museum
Subjects:	A General Works > AM Museums (General). Collectors and collecting (General) A General Works > AM Museums (General). Collectors and collecting (General) L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB1603 Secondary Education. High schools L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general
Divisions:	Art & Design
SWORD Depositor:	A Symplectic
Date Deposited:	05 Mar 2024 15:49
Last Modified:	05 Mar 2024 15:51
DOI or ID number:	10.24377/LJMU.t.00022729
Supervisors:	Byrne, J, Krysa, J, Hudson, A and Bruguera, T
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/22729

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