COMMUNITY AS A DEVELOPMENT TOOL
Santa Margarida de Montbui, 2025
The symposium has focused on non-formal education, project planning, and social participation. In the workshop “Infrastructure(s) for Participation”, facilitated by Timothy Nouzak, participants engaged in collective mapping and score-based reflection to explore how groups build shared agency within practice.
Bringing together participants from diverse fields (cultural studies research, social work, and the arts) the symposium reflected on how learning formats outside formal institutions can foster social agency, cooperation, and civic engagement. By approaching participation as an open-ended dialogue, the program framed it as a set of practices, ways in which groups organize, facilitate, listen, make decisions and sustain collective responsibility over time.
Santa Margarida de Montbui, 2025
The symposium has focused on non-formal education, project planning, and social participation. In the workshop “Infrastructure(s) for Participation”, facilitated by Timothy Nouzak, participants engaged in collective mapping and score-based reflection to explore how groups build shared agency within practice.
Bringing together participants from diverse fields (cultural studies research, social work, and the arts) the symposium reflected on how learning formats outside formal institutions can foster social agency, cooperation, and civic engagement. By approaching participation as an open-ended dialogue, the program framed it as a set of practices, ways in which groups organize, facilitate, listen, make decisions and sustain collective responsibility over time.
Organization: Esplais Catalans (Esplac)
Associação para a Promoção Cultural da Criança (APCC) Portugal, Nuorten Kotkien Keskusliitto - Unga Örnars Centralförbund (NKK) Finland, IFM-SEI (Belgium),
Association for MigrantRights andSocial Cohesion (Turkey)
Focus: Non-formal Education, Rethinking Collectivity
Funded by: Erasmus +, Global2000
Within the framework of a peer-to-peer workshop format, participants tested score-based methods for collective inquiry.
Through shared practices of listening, mapping, and feedback, the group explored how attention and responsibility are composed through embodied presence and how participation becomes legible through simple, repeatable actions.
Across the symposium, participants developed key competences in non-formal education methods, group dynamics, and reflective learning.
By linking local realities to broader questions of collectivity and belonging, the workshop focused on translating forms of exchange into repeatable protocols, shared responsibilities, and social accountability.
© Photos by C./Esplais Catalans