Shell-less Snail : Reclaiming spatial justice through community-based art education in Taiwan.
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| Title: | Shell-less Snail : Reclaiming spatial justice through community-based art education in Taiwan. |
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| Authors: | Tsai, Pei-Jung1 (AUTHOR) pjtsai@student.ubc.ca |
| Source: | International Journal of Education through Art. Sep2025, Vol. 21 Issue 3, p421-442. 22p. |
| Subject Terms: | *Community arts projects, Social justice, Involuntary relocation, Housing stability, Political participation, Interactive art, Artistic collaboration |
| Geographic Terms: | Taiwan |
| Abstract: | This study explores how community-based art education (CBAE) fosters social justice in the face of urban displacement. In YongHe, Taiwan, when redevelopment threatened a vital public space, a collaborative project mobilized residents and students to co-create participatory art interventions. This initiative cultivated a pedagogy rooted in commoning and citizenship, as artistic inquiry enabled participants to confront housing precarity, reimagine belonging and enact civic engagement. Grounded in social justice art education (SJAE), the project embedded art learning within a lived commons using arts-based participatory action research (AB-PAR). A central intervention – building a temporary structure called the Shell-less Snail in a public space threatened by urban development – critiqued technocratic urbanism and reclaimed space through collective creation. Ultimately, its civic impact earned national media attention, illustrating how collaborative art-making can cultivate civic agency and critical spatial awareness. It offers valuable insights for K-12 educators seeking to empower students as agents of systemic change and reimagine democratic urban futures from the ground up. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Abstract: | This study explores how community-based art education (CBAE) fosters social justice in the face of urban displacement. In YongHe, Taiwan, when redevelopment threatened a vital public space, a collaborative project mobilized residents and students to co-create participatory art interventions. This initiative cultivated a pedagogy rooted in commoning and citizenship, as artistic inquiry enabled participants to confront housing precarity, reimagine belonging and enact civic engagement. Grounded in social justice art education (SJAE), the project embedded art learning within a lived commons using arts-based participatory action research (AB-PAR). A central intervention – building a temporary structure called the Shell-less Snail in a public space threatened by urban development – critiqued technocratic urbanism and reclaimed space through collective creation. Ultimately, its civic impact earned national media attention, illustrating how collaborative art-making can cultivate civic agency and critical spatial awareness. It offers valuable insights for K-12 educators seeking to empower students as agents of systemic change and reimagine democratic urban futures from the ground up. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| ISSN: | 17435234 |
| DOI: | 10.1386/eta_00208_1 |
