Lucie Horňáková Černayová

10.11 Speculative Pasts and Pedagogical Imaginaries: A Symposium on Learning Through Art for Future Nows (Workshop)

Lucie Horňáková Černayová – Department of Sculpture, Faculty of Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Art in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia

Sarah Healy – SWISP Lab, Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia

Abstract:

This 90-minute symposium-style session introduces Speculative Pasts and Pedagogical Imaginaries, the fourth volume in the InSEA Learning Through Art (LTA) series. This collection explores how art education can foster relationality, integrity, and responsibility as we collectively navigate an uncertain future. Rooted in speculative and futures-oriented pedagogies, the volume captures diverse metho-pedagogical approaches that challenge power dynamics, promote equity, and encourage rethinking art’s role in curricula and knowledge frameworks. The session will be hosted by Sarah Healy, one of the book editors and feature the contributing authors who are attending the Congress. These authors will make a short presentation, each offering unique insights into art education’s potential to act as a threshold for “learning, unlearning, and learning anew.”

Themes span Indigenous conceptualisations of time, art education as a catalyst for acting responsibly, and speculative pedagogies that reimagine how we relate to and interpret pasts, presents, and futures. These contributions highlight art education’s capacity to create “response-able” spaces for inquiry and possibility in the Anthropocene. In alignment with the symposium’s speculative approach, attendees will actively engage by generating creative responses to each presentation. Through this participatory format, the symposium aims to expand the book’s themes into a collaborative exploration of speculative futures in art education with congress participants. Together, we will investigate the question, “What if?” – challenging dominant narratives and diversifying art education. This symposium promises to be a generative space where scholarly discourse and creative practice converge to (re)envision art education’s role in just futures.

10.25 Soft Territories of Material Flow (Workshop)

Lucie Horňáková Černayová – Department of Sculpture, Faculty of Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Art in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia

Andrea Kaňkovská – Department of Art Education, Faculty of Education, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia

Abstract:

This project by the Czechoslovak duo Lucie Horňáková Černayová and Andrea Kaňkovská combines a participatory material workshop with a process art installation for congress participants. Drawing on the artists’ collections of soft and waste materials – and informed by their personal interest in textiles and pur foams – the project invites attendees to engage in creating a collaborative, site-specific installation. Participants are encouraged to explore new materials, experiment with spatial interventions, and collaborate in hands-on group work. Moreover, the installation is designed to evolve through ongoing contributions and transformations by participants throughout the Congress.