Abstract
In 2016 the authors designed an educational interaction for U.S. college students (Northeastern University, Boston, MA USA) and Kichwa indigenous media makers (Otavalo, Ecuador) to support community initiatives while opening students to different cultural frameworks and ways of being. Three iterations of this course (2016, 2017 and 2023) initiated our experiments in intercultural media co-creation in higher education.
Our adaptive and responsive curriculum reaches across cultural, geographic, and socio-political borders to explore a more just and equitable media ecosystem. The methodologies are based on the Kichwa values of Minga and Ranti Ranti (shared work and reciprocity). These Kichwa structures guide pre-production, story development, film production, film screenings, and the collaborative partnerships with nature and community. Through this indigenous led, indigenous centered engagement students begin to recognize and question individual values underpinning western viewpoints rooting their contribution from their distinct cultural position while interrogating it. By co-creating community stories from an indigenous perspective, we build curricula that strengthen intercultural partnerships, changing how we think and design for the future.
The paper and presentation will be available in Spanish and English.
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Jean Schmitt, University of Arkansas, United States
Samia Maldonado, Asociación de Productores Audio Visuales Kichwa, Ecuador
Cristina Herdoíza, Asociación de Productores Audio Visuales Kichwa, Ecuador
David Tamés, Northeastern University, United States
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Conference: BCE2024
Stream: Education
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To cite this article:
Schmitt J., Maldonado S., Herdoíza C., & Tamés D. (2025) Audiovisual Minga! Co-creating Community Stories While Building Intercultural Partnerships in Higher Education ISSN: 2435-9467 – The Barcelona Conference on Education 2024: Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 369-380) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2435-9467.2024.34
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2435-9467.2024.34
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