The Participatory Social Documentary (DSP-La Virreina) platform is an initiative that is structured based on research and audiovisual experimentation. Its lines of work converge at the implementation of research and participatory action (IAP) as a process of creation, and as a constructive form capable of creating a new model of knowledge and management of alternative audiovisual forms.

At present there are many agents linked to participatory practices that use audiovisuals and photography as work tools, and from the DSP-La Virreina platform a space is included for reflection and the exchange of participatory practices with organisations and producers of participatory audiovisual and photographic projects.

The aim of these meetings is to create a space where artistic and methodological practices directly linked to the design, production and execution of participatory audiovisual projects can be shared, while generating a space for reflection, debate and cross-disciplinary learning.

http://plataformadsp.org/

 

SESSIONS
Research and field work

SESSION 1
Thursday 17 November, 6 pm. Virreina LAB
Fernando Hernández-Hernández, Sílvia Cepero and David Fernández, Alice Monteil and Mireia Plans

Fernando Hernández-Hernández
Teacher at the University of Barcelona’s Cultural Pedagogies unit, where he participates in the Contemporary Visualities and Arts-Based Research courses. Coordinator of the Arts and Education postgraduate (PhD and Master’s)

Sílvia Cepero and David Fernández (CàmeresiAcció)
CàmeresiAcció (Cameras and Action: http://cameresiaccio.org) is an association that works to empower and facilitate people’s expression through audiovisual experimentation. It donates resources to different collectives so that they can raise visibility, denounce and tackle their different problem issues in an autonomous way.courses. Member of the Esbrina Research Group (http://esbrina.eu/).

Alice Monteil and Mireia Plans (Fundació Photographic Social Vision)
Photographic Social Vision (www.photographicsocialvision.org/ca/) is a foundation committed to disseminating and promoting the social value of documentary photography and photojournalism. The Punt de Vista (ViewPoint) project includes participatory photography workshops with people and collectives who do not always have access to photographic language and are barely visible in society.

Free entry. Limited places

 

SESSION 2
Thursday 15 December, 6 pm. Virreina LAB
Pau Coll, Daniel Miracle and Pablo Zareceansky

Pau Coll (Ruido)
Documentary photographer and manager of participatory audiovisual projects featuring ACV, the intervention through image community project at different Catalan prisons. Co-founder and member of the organisation RUIDO Photo (www.ruidophoto.com), which works to make use of documentary images in order to defend human rights.

Daniel Miracle (Neokinok)
Artist and audiovisual producer. He has worked in different areas such as art, education, international cooperation, communication, computer technology and electronics. In 1998 he created the collective Neokinok (neokinok.tv), which is involved in the research and development of experimental television. Neokinok has developed different projects, such as tvlata.org and experimentaltv.org, among others.

Pablo Zareceansky (Quepo.org)
Director, scriptwriter and producer with over fifteen years of multidisciplinary experience in the audiovisual sector. He experiments with participatory and community methodologies. Co-founder of Quepo.org (www.quepo.org), an organisation that uses free culture as a basis for working with communication and audiovisual creation.

Free entry. Limited places