Activating the Arts for International Development: Community Education, Innovative Models and Transnational Networks

“拉丁美洲的不稳定出版：运动中的关系，意义和社区”（以下简称“不稳定出版”）是由全球挑战研究基金资助的AHRC项目，从2018年到2020年。《岌岌可危的出版》聚焦于拉丁美洲一种被称为editoriales cartoneras的当代出版现象，通常被翻译为“纸板印刷”，因为将这250个社区组织团结在一起的一个特点是他们制作书籍的材料：回收纸板。然而，“cartonera”一词所包含的远远不止“cardboard”一词。这也是对cartonero人物的参考-纸板收集者或废物收集者，经济危机，失业和贫困的后果-这是在布宜诺斯艾利斯成立第一个cartonera出版商Eloisa Cartonera（2003）的核心。15年过去了，其中一些出版商，如Eloisa和Dulcineia（圣保罗），继续与拾荒者合作。还有许多国家重新采用了通过社区讲习班促进变革的模式，使之适应具体的社会和经济挑战：一些国家与来自边缘化农村地区的学龄儿童群体合作，另一些国家与冲突地区的人权团体合作，还有一些国家促进材料和其他资源的可持续生产和消费。“不稳定的出版”研究团队开发了一个创新的跨学科方法框架，研究-并有助于-墨西哥和巴西的cartonera实践。该框架由一系列合作方法组成，包括圆桌辩论和公开论坛讨论、共同出版物、展览和研讨会。“激活艺术”后续资金开发的影响，从这一过程中产生的潜力，通过创建与我们的cartonera合作者持续参与所产生的不可预见的途径。我们共同确定了cartonera研讨会作为社区外展活动的最强大和最便携的模式，能够应对和适应不同的短期和长期发展挑战。我们的后续资金汇集了来自达勒姆大学和萨里大学的学者，四个cartonera出版商（两个在墨西哥，两个在巴西）-项目合作者与研究团队有很强的现有工作关系-以及其他公共利益相关者从墨西哥教育部到圣保罗的马里奥·德·安德拉德图书馆馆长。我们将共同建立、测试、分享和跟踪一个以可持续发展教育（ESD）为重点的合作性、创造性讲习班的创新计划。这四家cartonera出版商之所以被选中，是因为他们目前参与了不同的全球挑战，特别是他们与包容性和优质教育有关的工作;可持续城市和社区;解决耻辱和不平等问题;以及促进和平与正义。“激活艺术”将首先在墨西哥和巴西的农村和城市地区试点4套15个讲习班。这些讲习班将把反思与行动结合起来，把艺术创造力与社会意识结合起来，以建设应对具体地方挑战的能力-这些挑战反过来又映射到全球挑战，包括优质教育、平等、和平与正义以及可持续性。在这个试点的基础上，我们将创建一个cartonera外展计划-旨在实例化多层面的社会和福利影响-与所有cartonera行为者及其在非政府组织，社会运动和其他社会倡议中工作的合作者分享。这种可移植的社会艺术模式的潜在可扩展性，加上已经存在的跨国网络和合作，为拉丁美洲和拉丁美洲以外的中低收入国家难以接触的边缘化社区的可持续发展提供了一个令人兴奋的机会。

'Precarious Publishing in Latin America: Relations, meaning and community in movement' (hereafter 'Precarious Publishing') is an ongoing AHRC project funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund from 2018 to 2020. 'Precarious Publishing' focuses on a contemporary publishing phenomenon known in Latin America as editoriales cartoneras, often translated as 'cardboard publishing', because one feature that unites these 250 community organisations is the material from which they make their books: recycled cardboard. Yet the term 'cartonera' encompasses far more than the word 'cardboard'. It is also a reference to the cartonero figure - the cardboard collector or waste picker, a consequence of economic crisis, unemployment and poverty - that was so central in the formation of the first cartonera publisher Eloisa Cartonera in Buenos Aires (2003). Fifteen years on, some of these publishers, like Eloisa and Dulcineia (São Paulo), continue to work with waste-pickers. Many others have recycled the model of promoting change through community workshops, adapting it to address specific social and economic challenges: some work with groups of school children from marginalized rural areas, others with human rights in conflict zones, and others still, promoting sustainable production and consumption of materials and other resources. The 'Precarious Publishing' research team has developed an innovative and interdisciplinary methodological framework to research on - and contribute to - cartonera practices in Mexico and Brazil. This framework is composed of a constellation of collaborative methods, including encuentros cartoneros (round-table debates and open forum discussions), co-publications, exhibitions, and workshops. The 'Activating the Arts' Follow-on-Funding develops the potential for impact arising from this process, by creating unforeseen pathways arising from ongoing engagement with our cartonera collaborators. Together, we have identified the cartonera workshop as the most robust and portable model of community outreach activity, able as it is to respond and adapt to different short and long-term development challenges. Our Follow on Funding brings together academics from Durham University and the University of Surrey, four cartonera publishers (two in Mexico, two in Brazil) - project collaborators with whom the research team have strong existing working relations - and other public stakeholders from the Ministry of Education in Mexico to the Director of the Mário de Andrade Library in São Paulo. Together, we will build, test, share and track an innovative programme of collaborative, creative workshops focused on education for sustainable development (ESD). The four cartonera publishers have been chosen because of their existing engagement with different global challenges, most particularly their work relating to inclusive and quality education; sustainable cities and communities; tackling stigma and inequality; and the promotion of peace and justice. 'Activating the Arts', will first pilot 4 sets of 15 workshops in rural and urban locations in Mexico and Brazil. These workshops will incorporate reflection with action, artistic creativity with social awareness, to build capacity to respond to specific local challenges - which in turn map onto global challenges including quality education, equality, peace and justice, and sustainability. On the basis of this pilot, we will then create a cartonera outreach programme - designed to instantiate multidimensional social and welfare impact - to be shared with all cartonera actors and their collaborators working in NGOs, social movements, and other social initiatives. The potential scalability of this portable socio-artistic model, combined with the transnational networks and collaborations that are already in place, provides an exciting opportunity to build capacity for sustainable development in hard-to-reach, marginalized communities in LMICs across and beyond Latin America.