Agüita: Educational Commons, Arts and Well-Being

Resumen

This chapter focuses on a specific experience of educational commons: the Agüita creative workshops in Seville and Jerez de la Frontera, two Andalusian cities in the south of Spain. They are afterschool workshops for young people whose focus is listening to the participants and collaborative work through art. Specifically, this chapter addresses how artistic work nourishes and reinforces the tripartite structure of the commons and favours the practices of caring, cooperating and sharing, which are fundamental in developing the educational commons. To this end, four specific actions developed within the framework of the workshops are presented. In some of them, the sessions are open to specialists and artists who share their knowledge and dialogue about the processes of knowledge generation and artistic production with the young people. In others, it is the young people who go out to investigate and propose actions for intervention in the public space through art. In both cases, actions are guided by the logic of care and the promotion of well-being on differentlevels.