This proposal introduces the experience lived in a workshop of cartographies carried out in the department of Art Education at Concordia University as part of my postdoctoral research. The project “Cartographies of Affects. Learning Trajectories in Art Education Students” carried out with eleven grad students sought to understand how we build our trajectories as artists, teachers and researchers, both inside and outside of university. As well as employing artistic methods and cartographies, I intended to pay attention on how affects are activated in this process, taking account cultural and social contexts. This Arts-based research project was conceived from a post-qualitative perspective and the new materialisms based on rhizomatic relationships. There were three central ideas involved in this process: 1. Affect/affection. The learning is an affective process. The body affects and it is affected. 2. The corporeality. The notion of corporeality in the learning process emphasizes the body is constituted by human, non-human and beyond human forces. This notion refers to the proximity between the body and the world (and the environment). 3. Artistic cartography. Cartography is understood as an entanglement of different elements –bodies, matter, materiality, texts, situations, spatiality, architecture and geography. This project took three months and involved three different stages: the first one, including three training sessions on the cartographic method; the second one focus on the production of artistic cartographies and the third one where we carried out two artistic exhibitions displaying the personal cartographies of each participants and then a collective cartography as a result of the whole process. Likewise, as part of the data gatherings: photography, videos, audio recordings and interviews. Finally, the dissemination of such artistic methodologies is very important to show how to put into practice other ways of understanding formal education, the learning process, research, and, in addition, to build another kind of academy based on respect, care and affection.

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