4 results for tag: PARCEO

Mexico: PARCEO/PNCA Global Studios Collaboration

PARCEO is currently collaborating with PNCA for their intersession program, Global Studios: Mexico City/Oaxaca. PARCEO's Nina Mehta is coordinating visits and workshops for PNCA students with artists, curators, gallerists, writers, and designers in Mexico City, Oaxaca City, and surrounding communities. We are also bringing PAR reflection and framing to this program where local artists and craftspeople share their skills and processs with the PNCA students. PNCA Global Studios: Mexico students work across cultures and explore the interconnections and overlaps between contemporary and traditional art, culture, and history. Engaging with different ...

Facilitating within a PAR Framework

As we know, facilitation can open a space or shut it down. Whether at a meeting or discussion or in a classroom, how we facilitate is a critical part of, and integral to our organizing for justice. The more we think intentionally about our role as facilitators in different contexts, the more we can create the kinds of liberating spaces that help facilitate the meaningful organizing and spaces of reflection and analysis that we strive for. PARCEO's facilitator training on August 26th was a time of sharing and learning together among leaders and organizers within the many groups that participated. Thanks to El Museo for once again opening their ...

Re-Centering Around the Foundational Concepts of PAR

This summer we are revisiting some key PAR concepts. We chose the following readings to ground some of our thoughts and ideas around: knowledge, action, participation, solidarity, collaboration and reflection Here are some guiding questions to keep in mind, both in relation to the readings and our own work: How do these readings help shape my thoughts and work? How is PAR understood and used in similar and varying ways, by these different authors? How does context shape PAR processes? What are some ways that PAR is transformative in nature and practice? How is PAR is different from traditional research methodologies? Please read with us and ...

Connecting PAR to Community-based Work in the Middle East and North Africa

This past month PARCEO had the pleasure of hosting in New York the Maxwell School Leaders for Democracy Fellows from Syracuse University. The group consisted of 26 community leaders, activists, and professionals from 13 countries in the Middle East and North Africa. The two days together  began with a session facilitated by PARCEO establishing the framework of PAR and highlighting its application as a tool for creating sustained social change. Throughout the sessions, the fellows explored PAR and made connections to their work in a variety of sectors, including law, media, arts, medicine, and social work. The next day continued with engaging ...