“Arts in Education”

Parallel Event: “Arts in Education”

As part of the exhibition “Blind Spot: Sea Routes and Migration Flows”, the Nikos Poulantzas Institute is organising the event “Arts in Education” on Friday, 6 February (18:00–21:00) at the Athens Municipality Arts Centre.

Aim and Theme

The event “Arts in Education” seeks to highlight the role of the arts as a crucial pedagogical and epistemic field within today’s educational environment. In a time of intense social, technological, and cultural transformations, the arts should not be treated as a supplementary or marginal activity, but rather as an essential tool for understanding the world, cultivating critical thinking, fostering empathy, and encouraging democratic participation.

The event is part of the exhibition “Blind Spot” and engages with its central questions of visibility and invisibility, movement, borders, and the narratives that shape contemporary experience. Within this context, arts in education are approached as methodological and aesthetic tools that render visible the “blind spots” of school knowledge, enabling the re-examination of established historical, social, and cultural narratives.

Discussion Focus

The event explores the ways in which different art forms—theatre, digital drama, cinema, visual arts, and museum practices—can be creatively integrated into educational processes, contributing to the development of a school environment open to dialogue, experiential learning, and inclusion. Particular emphasis is placed on the relationship between art and technology, visual and digital literacy, as well as the potential of the arts to function as an “in-between space” for exploring identities, values, and social issues.

Through interdisciplinary approaches, the discussion aims to contribute to scholarly reflection on arts education, highlighting both its pedagogical possibilities and the challenges it faces within formal education and its connection to culture.

Programme

Moderator
Giannis Christakos, Visual Artist, Associate Professor, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA)

Speakers

• Aimilía Karantzouli, PhD in Theatre Pedagogy and Digital Media

• Elli Lemonidou, Professor of Contemporary History, University of Patras

• Myrto Pigkou-Repousi, Associate Professor of Theatre, NKUA

• Marina Tsekou, Education Curator, National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMST)

Interventions by

• Evgenia Alexaki, Assistant Professor of Art History, NKUA

• Sofia Vgenopoulou, Child Psychiatrist – Film Director

• Pantelis Panteloglou, Artistic Director, Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People

Information

Venue: Athens Municipality Arts Centre, Vasilissis Sofias Ave., Eleftherias Park
Date & Time: Friday, 6 February 2026, 18:00–21:00
Admission: Free entry
Exhibition duration: 13 January – 8 February 2026

For further information, please contact the Nikos Poulantzas Institute.

Nikos Poulantzas Institute

Stournari 57, Athens

210 3217 745

info@poulantzas.gr