6th annual research symposium of the Hollo Institute Social Justice and Public Pedagogy at Aalto University Helsinki Finland, School of Art, Design and Architecture, Department of Art 8.-9. October 2015 English: http://taide.aalto.fi/en/research/hollo/ Suomeksi: http://taide.aalto.fi/fi/research/hollo/ The symposium has two invited presenters: Jenny Sandlin (an Associate Professor in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University in Tempe) and Pilvi Takala (a Finnish artist who lives and works in Istanbul and Amsterdam). Learning occurs in diverse sites and through multiple modalities, outside of traditional schools or schooling. Recent discussions around “public pedagogy” consider what pedagogy is and looks/feels like, especially outside of institutional settings. Public pedagogy focuses, in part, on where and how cultural values and social relations are learned and take root, through popular and corporate culture, through sites from entertainment media, informal sites of learning, and public spectacle. Public pedagogy also revolves around the common sense idea that business, industry, and corporations, as opposed to the State, are increasingly responsible for the public good. Socially engaged artistic practices cannot be separated from their larger cultural contexts. New modes of artistic intervention into public pedagogy have directed attention to normative practices around the globe. This symposium is an opportunity to discuss what values and lessons are taught through public pedagogy, and share modes of artistic interventions into public life that inspire reflection and social action. The symposium brings together practitioners, researchers, and activists from diverse fields, interested in understanding what pedagogy does in the interplay between art, research, and its social function. The languages of the symposium are English and Finnish. Invited presenters: Pilvi Takala lives and works in IStanbul and Amsterdam. She gratuated from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2006 (MFA), was artist-in-residence at Rijksakademie, Amsterdam 2009-2010 and won the Dutch Prix de Rome 2011, Finnish State Prize for Visual Arts and Emdash Award 2013. Takala carries out performative interventions in our everyday life, using her own body as artistic material, placing it inquite humorous predicatements. Her own feelings evolving in the course of an intervention, often nuanced shades of embarrassment, reveal the contours of society’s expectations. Her works clearly show that it is often possible to learn of the implicit rules of a social situation only by its disruption. Jenny Sandlin is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University in Tempe. Her research focuses on the intersections of education, learning ans consumption; as well as on the theory and practice of public pedagogy. She also investigates sites of public pedagogy and popular culture-based, informal, and socia movement activism centered on “unlearning” consumerism. Her work has been published in Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Adult Education Quarterly, Qualitative Inquiry, and Teachers College Record. She has edited, with Peter McLaren, Critical Pedagogies of Consumption (Routledge, 2010) and, with Brian Schultz and Jake Burdick, Handbook of Public Pedagogy (Routledge, 2010). Organizers: Hollo-institute/Finnish Society for Research in Art Education is a network of university departments and researchers that focus on arts education. Hollo- institute aims at advancing pedagogical research in the arts and at strengthening the role of arts education in the Finnish society. The institute organizes a national seminar every spring and an international research symposium annually, every fall. Symposiums are hosted by departments that belong to the network. Before this year the symposium has been organized five times: by Aalto University in 2010, by Sibelius Academy in 2011, by University of Jyväskylä in 2012, by University of Arts/Theater Academy in 2013 and by Finnish Academy of Fine Art in 2014. See www.hollo-instituutti.fi Aalto University Helsinki Finland is a new multidisciplinary science and art community in the fields of technology and science, business and economics, and art and design. Key areas of research of the School of Arts, Design and Architecture are design, digital media, audiovisual representation, art, visual culture, well-being, architecture and emerging technologies, and urban planning and design. The school’s history dates back to 1871. The Department of Art is known for high quality artistic and art pedagogical activities, and scholarship and research. Through the department, art and other cultural work is understood as a critical practice that creates meaning and mediates an embodied relationship with the world.