Irina Shapiro is an artist-pedagog, cultural programmer and organiser. Her practice combines investigative artistic projects with educational events and research programmes that are often developed in collaboration with communities and organisations. Trained as a designer and scenographer, she sees pedagogy as her current dominant medium of practice and as a space for public engagement. Her educational work explores situational, participatory and sensorial qualities of applied arts. Shapiro’s research themes focus on pedagogical, artistic and storytelling approaches that act within multiscale, multi-species environments and open up interrelational forms of knowing.
Shapiro is a co-initiator of Open Set, a non-institutional platform for art/design research and professional development. She is involved in formal education as a core tutor of the Master Education in Arts programme at the Piet Zwart Institute; an associate and lecturer at the RASL (Rotterdam Arts & Sciences Lab), and a member of the Examination Board at the Willem deKooning Academy.
Highlights: research project Witnessing Garden 404, symposium Instituting Relationality, School for Multi-Species Knowledges, pedagogical series Witnessing a Relational Classroom, reading group Co-respond: Bodies, Voices, Spaces in Art Education
Shapiro is a co-initiator of Open Set, a non-institutional platform for art/design research and professional development. She is involved in formal education as a core tutor of the Master Education in Arts programme at the Piet Zwart Institute; an associate and lecturer at the RASL (Rotterdam Arts & Sciences Lab), and a member of the Examination Board at the Willem deKooning Academy.
Highlights: research project Witnessing Garden 404, symposium Instituting Relationality, School for Multi-Species Knowledges, pedagogical series Witnessing a Relational Classroom, reading group Co-respond: Bodies, Voices, Spaces in Art Education
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