Crafting Pedagogies of Togetherness Residency 2025



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Unfolded across Paris and Moulins, France, from January to October 2025, a hybrid residency combining in-person immersions with online gatherings that let the process keep unfolding long after each session ended. It grew out of the Being Together project, developed the year before by Ricardo Dutra and Arawana Hayashi with a school in San Francisco.







At the heart of the residency was the question of how we might craft pedagogies that foster togetherness, explored against broader societal challenges: increasing fragmentation, the weakening of social bonds, a perceived loss of collective agency, declining trust in democracy. Participants reflected on how practices of togetherness might be cultivated with young people, across schools, universities, and other educational contexts.






Process        Paris gathering   Moulins immersion   Online community   Impact










Forty-five educators, artists, changemakers, and teachers from fifteen countries opened the residency with three days in Paris, hosted by Anne-Sophie Dubanton. The gathering introduced everyone to embodied practices of awareness-based collective creativity, building a shared foundation through experiential exercises before the group dispersed.





Three months later, the residency reconvened for five days at Foyer Michaël, a Waldorf-Steiner teacher education centre in Moulins. Mornings were spent in embodied practice; afternoons belonged to prototyping, participants designing and facilitating small sessions for one another, testing ways to bring togetherness into their own schools and classrooms, then refining their ideas through the group's feedback.






Prototyping didn't stop when Moulins ended. Participants organised themselves into an online community, splitting into groups around the themes that had emerged, and returned online in May and October to reflect on how their ideas had evolved in practice.










What came out of Paris kept growing after the residency closed. A grant proposal drafted during the programme became the WellSpaces Network, now an independent initiative funded through Erasmus+. The hosting team that formed here learned to run a social art residency together, a skill they've since carried into residencies of their own across France, Finland, and the United States. And the prototypes tested in Moulins became the foundation for the Helsinki residency, where they were refined into the Crafting Pedagogies of Togetherness curriculum, now an open resource for educators working with young people.





Duration

10 months
Jan–Oct 2025 Format

Hybrid
2 in-person, 2 onlineParticipants

45
15 countriesOutcome

1
WellSpaces Network

Where the group met

Paris
Three day opening gathering



Moulins, Foyer Michaël
Five day residential immersion



Online
Follow-up gatherings in May and October







Residency Team



























Participants










Forty-five educators, artists, changemakers, and teachers, from fifteen countries, a group that kept working together long after Moulins, splitting into themed groups online to keep testing what they'd started.






Partners





Organizing partners Hosting partnersCo-Funding partners









Erasmus+ Project nr. 
2024-1-IT02-KA122-ADU-000211033
is co-funded with the support of the European Commission.
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