Isolate with love

Abstract

This article reports on a pilot project, developed within the scope of the AMASS project ‘Acting on the Margins: Arts as Social Sculpture’, in Portugal, by APECV (Association of Teachers of Expression and Visual Communication) in the year 2020. This is the year in which the Covid-19 pandemic plagued the world and changed the way we live and relate to each other. In Portugal, the project was started during lockdown, forcing constant changes to the initial plans, given that society’s challenges are constantly changing and contexts change methods, populations and objectives. Here, we explain the choice of the population that collaboratively participated in this study (people with multiple disabilities), the work context (the Covid-19 pandemic in Portugal), the participatory methodology, the use of artistic and artistic techniques, the affective pedagogies and the importance of poetry, metaphor and love in a work process rich in meanings, understood by all, emancipatory and impactful on the surrounding society.