Visual Participatory Arts Based Research in the City

Laura Trafí-Prats is a Senior Lecturer of Childhood Studies and Research Methodologies at Manchester Metropolitan University. Laura’s research engages with and responds to children and young people’s sensory and material experiences in a variety of contexts including urban spaces, the natural environment and schooling. Aurelio Castro-Varela is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Pedagogies at the University of Barcelona. His research focuses on learning environments and urban arts-based practices through a new materialist perspective. He is also a member of the research group Esbrina and postdoctoral researcher in the European project Pleasurescapes. Port Cities’ Transnational Forces of Integration

1.Introduction: Visual participatory arts-based research in the city: Outlining posthumanist approaches. Part I: Ontologies Reorientations. 2.Relocating the cinema in the city: The case of El Solar de la Puri. 3.Fred Herzog's affective engagements with things in the city of Vancouver. 4.Black life and aesthetic sociality in the Subúrbio Ferroviário de Salvador, Bahia. Part II: Aesthetic Practice. 5.Lively pathways: Finding the aesthetic in everyday practice. 6.A hauntological enlivening of the Coma Cros archive through pedagogical inquiry and live performance. Part III: Ethics of Participation. 7.The Lynden Sculpture Garden’s Call and Response Program: To wonder, encounter, and emplace through the radical Black imagination. 8.A poetics of opacity: Towards a new ethics of participation in gallery-based art projects with young people. Epilogue.The remaking of collective life in (post)pandemic times.