Eighteenth International Conference on the Arts in Society

Abstract

This study adds knowledge to the understanding of art-education-creativity relations, and their relevance in the educational and communitarian context, in the formative processes, citizenship, participation, valorization of cultural differences and communitarian construction. This thought has acquired relevance in the European context in the face of contemporary political and social instability and fragility. The most original contribution is to think the notion of artistic-cultural mediation in the educational context and not only inside cultural equipments, and to specify the profile and the role of that mediator. The role we defend for the cultural mediator in school contexts, with a legitimacy that we find reinforced in the Portuguese National Plan for the Arts, will be that of a transforming agent in the creation of close links between artists, cultural equipment and the school and educational community. We value the work done through hybrid projects, resulting from the intersection between several artistic areas with a strong relationship with the community, territory and heritage.