Internal projects
Team
Ana Luísa Veloso (INET-md/ UA, artistic coordination)
Helena Caspurro (INET-md/ UA)
Paulo Maria Rodrigues (INET-md/ UA)
Alfonso Benetti (INET-md/ UA)
Period
01/10/2026 to 30/09/2027
Funding
INET-md
Abstract
“Assembleia” is conceived as an interdisciplinary meeting space that seeks to contribute to theoretical and methodological reflection on sound-based artistic practices with children, understood as forms of situated and relational inquiry, imagination and co-construction of meaning. Drawing on the potential of expanded listening, sound art and technological mediation to foster relationships between children and human and more-than-human worlds, the project develops a theoretical and practical framework to guide and support the development of these practices, as well as documentation and analysis processes that acknowledge multiple forms of agency and meaning-making
The methodological approach is based on practice-as-research, adopting a participatory perspective and comprising three phases: (a) an initial training programme for educators; (b) two case studies selected from the practice contexts of the educators participating in phase (a), developed in conjunction with “assembly-labs”, collaborative spaces for learning and reflection involving the two selected practitioners; and (c) a dissemination phase focused on the preparation of a digital publication/sound fiction, a scientific article and a “final assembly”, incorporating a training course and a project debriefing.
The project is expected to generate knowledge, resources and transferable practices for listening and sound creation with children, strengthening connections between research, education, art and the community.
Keywords
Sound-based artistic practices; Childhood; Teacher training.