Thinking about method and the knowledge production

Abstract

We live in a time of intense mediatization and image production. Many people give up their ability to develop critical thinking, exercise their potential for transformation and seek creative solutions to everyday problems, and end up developing an attitude of compulsive consumption. In the context of high education courses dedicated to the education of individuals who will act in creative economy segments, the repetition of models and habits of reading the world based on an uncritical attitude is an even more serious problem. How can education contribute to changing this scenario? How can we provide contexts that encourage and stimulate a generation of creative and critical people? The power of producing knowledge from the confluence of Education, Art, and Politics is the starting point of this article. The focus of the discussion is on process-oriented art projects that address political issues from an educational perspective. Understanding education as a practice of freedom, the value of dialogue in the knowledge production, the dynamics of thinking through images, and the production of texts, documents, and records as power devices, this article presents a curation of works of art, develops reflections based on the method of cartography of imaginaries, and elaborates a teaching proposal for creative processes. As a result of the workshop, we were able to notice that the proposed teaching method aroused the learning and knowledge production powers.