“TEXTILE TALKS | Educational Futures was a key element of CONTEXTILE 2022. During two days, artists, specialists, schools and academies, from the USA, Ghana, Lithuania, Sweden, Poland and Portugal, shared good teaching practices in textile education, artistic perspectives and process strategies. The group discussed specificities and methodologies. The aim was to understand the potential connections between textile and other artistic, social or technological modes of making and living.
The aim of Educational Futures talks was to promote a network and a dialogue between different actors and institutions, with links to territories of textile culture, promoting excellence in textile teaching and exploring its artistic and cultural dimension.
In this meeting we gathered representatives of educational institutions in Portugal, offering, for the first time, an opportunity for teachers and decision makers to get to know each other, share strategies and policies, teaching and learning methodologies. This meeting also aimed, therefore, to create networks that will enhance future initiatives, sharing and collaboration, in order to build a textiles and teaching practice of excellence. For that we had representatives from universities of Bragança, Castelo-Branco, Guimarães, Lisbon, Porto, and also the undergraduate Artistic School Soares dos Reis from Porto.”

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