Transducers

13.3.09

“Transducers*. Collective pedagogies and spatial policies is a cultural project that includes the launch of seminars and training workshops, the construction and exhibition of a relational archive, work with local agents, and the publication of various publications. Transducers is a project organized and produced by the

Centro José Guerrero

of Granada in collaboration with Aulabierta, the Ministry of Culture and the International University of Andalusia .

*A transducer is a device capable of transforming or converting a certain type of input energy into a different type of output. In social network theory, transducers act as triggers or catalysts for social changes, opening up new possibilities for transformation that are more comprehensive and sustainable within the context.

Transducers. Collective pedagogies and spatial policies takes shape in the creation at the Centro José Guerrero of a documentary space or relational archive in which to present, disseminate, interweave, and problematize the aforementioned practices through the study of various cases, seeking their direct dynamization in the local context based on a pedagogical project structured around training and intervention seminars in collaboration with some centers and educators in the province.”

Or so it says in the introduction to the project; the truth is, however, that the complexity and at the same time the consistency of the contents and practices related in Transducers make it very difficult to summarize it in a few paragraphs. That is why we invite you to delve into the project’s website where you can find, in addition to everything, a complete ‘Resource Center‘ with information to your heart’s content. In any case, if your thing is precisely to economize resources, the Centro José Guerrero published a few days ago on its blog a summary that will be very useful to get a fairly accurate general idea.

Transducers began a few weeks ago with the launch of the seminar-workshop Cultural pedagogies. Practices of collaboration and networked learning whose development you can follow punctually on the cover of the project’s website. We are already in Granada, where next Tuesday the 17th we will participate precisely in one of the work sessions (whose structure and contents is also accessible here on the project’s website, it almost goes without saying). One of the aspects that we find most attractive about the whole project is that to a certain extent it is presented as an exercise in cultural pedagogy within the artistic institution itself, insofar as it seeks in some way to “collectivize” the production of discourse on a certain type of practices and their dissemination.

The direction of Transducers is in charge of Javier Rodrigo and
FAAQ
.