Conversações Internacionais 2008 - diferença e fabulação

PRESENTATION

The "International Conversations: Differences and Fable Making”, which will take place from September 24 to 26 at the Quay are a powerful meeting spot for Porto Alegre Municipal Department of Education, among others that have been occurring since 2005, as a thought exercise; a thought which is strategy, creation and invention of other possibilities of life.

It presents itself as a potency for experimenting different combinations of thought and collocations towards the schools and city communities in its several lines and ways of being, in relationships which aim at grandeur with no abridgment, domination or the other's decreasing. They worry about practicing, experiences that, trying to free, cloister in a new cage, portrait of truth hung on the new wall of the old truth broken down. This is not the way one makes life worthwhile, overflow the experimentations, the senses, open up to multiplicities.

This experimenting is a big challenge to deal with a proposal, with a policy which does not look for homogeneous, universalities, but prefers to choose micropolicies, to strengthen life, making it a problem when it seems calmer and natural. Dealing with values, questioning life which is implied, and not submitting life to superior values.

A proposal that is 'a proposal' for trying to escape from prescription, and comes tacked with several threads without a closed facing, like a process which is being constructed permanently. Just as life! However, as life, it inspires itself without being exact, much more as creation, invention. It questions itself in relation to the ' making' of each school, by actions which break frontiers among the students who "fit" and those who are considered as the ones who "do not fit"; either through practices that invent other ways of being a student, a director, a father, a mother, a family, a woman, of promotting education, of creating the school curriculum, denaturalizing standards. Standards that mark places, pre-establish values which judge and evaluate as the only truth both to everybody and to each one, assuming that the difference does not happen for absence, for identification, identity or even for transcendence, since it is not based on a reference, in a model, assessor, regulator. Thus it produces singularities.

This proposal was designed in four vectors which follow this Department of Education since 2005: the undoing of the state racism, denaturalizing patterns, the exercise of the difference and production of singularities. These vectors, these lines of action are taken as tools, as strategies inspired in Friederich Nietzsche's, Michel Foucault's, Gilles Deleuze's and Félix Guattari's philosophies, which have contributed to the thinking of education without separating thought and life, trying not to give in to a "temptation" of applicability, of the 'good methods' that would guarantee "good results", understanding that truth-is-from-this-world and it is here to be invented, as well the value of the values is to be questioned, as well as the value of truth, of a logic of thinking based on the model, in the reference. Operating with this thought in a teaching network makes us think of the logic of mass education, of flock, and that we can rehearse, experiment ourselves in gaps out of this logic, which would not mean, then, a new totality.

This doing which questions itself turns the word into act, creates something from fiction. A pending word questioning its own action; an action which hints as strength, as a process, which operates in between, a thinking open to achieving, which goes through a word problem, of letting the other's voice flow with no intervention, no censorship, of opening oneself to the other, without any pre-judgement, without squeezing him in our meaningfulness. A materialized idea that does not stick to preconceived concepts, concepts already given in words which always ask for verification, welcoming and living the difference, which denaturalizes what is established taking over the unusual. Accepting being in the equilibrist's "razor's edge", in "a nice mess", to create what is unthinkable, displacing the 'already given'.

Believing in the practice of the difference and in the fable making (fabulação) is to dance with life, to understand the difference as constant movements of differentiating which are not in relation to a model, to a rule, to an establihed place. It means to "break" with the opposition between fiction and natural to believe in this thought without image, in the reverse of the representation, in the lines of creation, setting free the fable making of the truth model that frames it, as if it were the other of what is real, the fable making having the function of undoing this model which does not accept being blurred, shaded, misty, acting through rhizomes, with no centres. A word in act, stagings, daily experimentings, which go beyond the reproduction and the observation, considering life as a piece of art.

Thus, just like the three previous events, this one does not present a formal framing, it avoids a logic of lightening, believing in conversation spots open to teachers, students, school workers, Porto Alegre communities and people in general, it counts on working with more than 60,000 people in different places in this learning city.

This happy harbor opens as an invitation to thought teasing, as an exercise of thinking the thought in different conceptions, a space to have, with the Municipal schools, experiences and creation of concepts, feelings, perceptions, ways of dealing with dance, music, theatre, cinema, visual arts, as well photo narratives, handicraft, graffiti, sculptures, paintings, drawings, as well as foreign languages, the environmental education, robotics, cooking, literature, philosophy, sports, science, in varied actions of "letramento" literacy (the result of teaching and learning the social practices of reading and writing), in the discussions of culture, genre and ethics, among so many, drawing lines and going through the educational thought in conversations among communities of differences.

It opens as an invitation to experimentation, for many times spoken or written words diminish the intensity of what one lives. That is the reason why it is an invitation to life, to let oneself go through the spaces, colors, smells, sounds, images, voices, writings, drawings, wishes which circulate and make us think beyond what is set and shout that the best belief is the belief in life!!! It is to live! Live life!