Art driving mediation. Gauguin to Banksy: a path of intercultural art teaching


Abstract:

Art education promotes, encourages and enhances the construction of knowledge based on senses, empathy, creativity, understanding and contamination. It creates spaces of mediation in which diversity is no perceived as a problem but as a value, that should be preserved and promoted. Due to these characteristics, art is a place of mediation, a space in which people belonging to different cultures, religions, countries, eras and social statues run into each other. Art could often become a bridge that shortens the distances and limits the differences. This makes it a an intercultural perspective. The article describes an intercultural teaching laboratory carried out within a seminar of the Master in Intercultural Education at the University of Roma Tre.