Mr Julio COGO
rafafafael@hotmail.com
Solidarity and Funds Coordinator
ABRA – Brazilian Arteducators Association

Júlio Rafael Cançado Cogo graduated in Philosophy from the Federal University of Santa Catarina after completing research into the Freirian philosophy of education for liberation. Since 2002, he has developed community projects as an art-educator working with children and adolescents, focussed on ecological issues and urban questions of identity, and working with women on questions of community. Today he is the pedagogical coordinator of the Association of Parents and Friends of Children and Adolescents (APAM) in Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, and Coordinator of Funding and Solidarity in the national executive of the Brazilian Association of Arteducadores (ABRA). He is currently studying Waldorf Pedagogy.

Creativity and Globalization

One of the most tragic effects of globalization, particularly in poorer countries, has been on cultural democracy and participatory politics where poor populations have been isolated in ghettoes of poverty, and social services have been turned into products of deteriorating cultural and social quality, and come to be seen as even disposable. A new form of domination has developed through addiction to consumerism as leisure, far worse than the effects of drugs and alcohol, stimulated through the powerful resources of marketing and the new media.

Art in community context and the use of free technologies can create forms of resistance to this new form of colonization, offering spaces for the nurturing and construction of new cultures, for reviving cultural origins and memory, and for celebrating human creativity. The alliance art and education has the power to awaken in human beings sensitivity and desire, creating a powerful way of freeing oneself from contemporary prisons of already-defined and marketed options.

Júlio Rafael Cançado Cogo 先生

 Júlio Rafael Cançado Cogo 先生在巴西Santa Catarina哲學系畢業。自2002年，他的工作是發展兒童及青少年社區項目，並針對環保及城市化身份及社區婦女問題。他又是巴西藝術教育教育者聯盟 (ABRA)的資源與團結統籌員。他目前在研究華德福教育學。

簡介

全球化有一個很悲哀的影響是在貧窮國家的文化民主及政治參與方面。貧民區的社會服務質素下降。新媒體及市場宣傳鼓吹以消費主義為消遣，這種新的霸權的癮頭比毒品酒精更厲害。幸而，社區藝術及免費科技的應用可對抗這種新殖民侵略，復興文化泉源。藝術及教育的聯盟有喚醒人的內心感性和理想的能力，協助人們脫離世俗勢利的藩籬。