Critical Reflection and the arts as third spaces

The paper discusses critical reflection in the context of the arts as Third Space (TS). It scrutinises TS as an artistically co-created conceptual, physical and egalitarian site for transdisciplinary dialogue and informal learning and also a means to advance the democracy of learning – especially critical reflection. The focus is on theatre-pedagogic ways to set up participatory performative learning arrangements as TS. The analysis addresses examples drawn from an arts-based learning practice called Learning Jam (LJ) that was organized in Copenhagen Business School in August 2014. In the transdisciplinary event, approximately forty artists, researchers, art-educators, managers and arts-based consultants used an artistic inquiry process to explore the topic of transformation. Organised as a jam in the sense of jazz music, the LJ encouraged the participants to improvise collectively in order to move beyond the known and co-create new knowledge through practice in collaboration between practitioners and academics

Citation

Lehikoinen, K., Passila, A. & Owens, A. (2015). Critical reflection and the arts as third spaces. Paper presented at Organisation, Learning and Knowledge Conference (OLKC), Milan, Italy.

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/10034/611222

Type

Conference Contribution

Language

en