Open AccessFutures literacy theatre lab with unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors
Author(s) -
Pedro de Senna
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
conceição/conception
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2317-5737
DOI - 10.20396/conce.v8i2.8657876
Subject(s) - futures contract , transformational leadership , literacy , work (physics) , sociology , public relations , pedagogy , political science , engineering , business , mechanical engineering , finance
This article discusses a Practice as Research project, the design and implementation of a Futures Literacy Lab in which tools derived from the arsenal of the Theatre of the Oppressed were applied. The lab involved asylum-seeking unaccompanied minors, and took place in the island of Lesvos, Greece in July, 2019. Applied theatre practices often deal with communities and individuals in a transformational manner, which is, by definition, future-oriented. In this respect, the work undertaken served as a first case study for potential interdisciplinary collaboration between Performance Studies and Futures studies. This exercise is not without its ethical implications, though. This paper will discuss some of the challenges, pitfalls and successes of this process.