Creativity as a socio-educational tool. Pilot activity “Environment, society and mud”

Abstract

The present work is about the execution of the pilot activity “Environment, society and mud”, a socio-educational intervention proposal through art. The pilot activity, of environmental and transformative thematic, is carried out through mud, with a group composed by minors belonging to a socialization center as well as adult amateur poters, in relation to the theoretical foundation data, which include self-esteem, tolerance, individual and social transformation and critical attitude as possible aspects of developing through creativity. During its development, two types of clay tiles are presented: intact ones, in which a theme is represented from illustrative sheets about the socio-environmental problem; and others previously damaged, which will have to be rebuilt. In this way, reflect on environmental problems and the relationship between natural and social problems are allowed, as well as between the insertion conflict and the environmental conflict, being able to cover topics such as the consumer society or the traditional education system and the “waste” they generate. The result is a mural that shows the damaged nature in half of its pieces and the transformation of the damaged in the other half.