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"MapMap is a free, open source software for projection mapping aimed at artists and small teams. Its intuitive interface facilitates learning and promotes artistic expression. This software is available on Windows, OSX, and Linux. MapMap gives users the ability to projection map on any surface of choice. Mapmap takes media sources and gives users the ability to manipulate the media into different positions and shapes. Media sources can come from any various accepted media formats. With an easy to understand interface, new users can get started in minutes. Projection mapping, also known as video mapping and spatial augmented reality, is a projection technology used to turn objects, often irregularly shaped, into a display surface for video projection. These objects may be complex industrial landscapes, such as buildings. By using specialized software, a two or three dimensional object is spatially mapped on the virtual program which mimics the real environment it is to be projected on. The software can interact with a projector to fit any desired image onto the surface of that object. This technique is used by artists and advertisers alike who can add extra dimensions, optical illusions, and notions of movement onto previously static objects. The video is commonly combined with, or triggered by, audio to create an audio-visual narrative."

"... Reclaiming pedagogy as a form of educated and militant hope begins with the crucial recognition that education is not solely about job training and the production of ethically challenged entrepreneurial subjects and that artistic production does not only have to serve market interests, but are also about matters of civic engagement and literacy, critical thinking, and the capacity for democratic agency, action, and change. It is also inextricably connected to the related issues of power, inclusion, and social responsibility.[2] If young people, artists, and other cultural workers are to develop a deep respect for others, a keen sense of the common good, as well as an informed notion of community engagement, pedagogy must be viewed as a cultural, political, and moral force that provides the knowledge, values, and social relations to make such democratic practices possible. In this instance, pedagogy needs to be rigorous, self-reflective, and committed not to the dead zone of instrumental rationality but to the practice of freedom and liberation for the most vulnerable and oppressed, to a critical sensibility capable of advancing the parameters of knowledge, addressing crucial social issues, and connecting private troubles into public issues. Any viable notion of critical pedagogy must overcome the image of education as purely instrumental, as dead zones of the imagination, and sites of oppressive discipline and imposed conformity. ..."

Ver At School "France in the Year 2000 (XXI century) - a series of futuristic pictures by Jean-Marc Côté and other artists issued in France in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1910. Originally in the form of paper cards enclosed in cigarette/cigar boxes and, later, as postcards, the images depicted the world as it was imagined to be like in the year 2000. There are at least 87 cards known that were authored by various French artists, the first series being produced for the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris."

"Este curso como otros años quería hacer algún trabajo artístico para reclamar la atención del alumnado ante el problema de la violencia machista. Estaba cansada de hacer instalaciones centradas en lo luctuoso del día. Lo triste, lo que nos pone los pelos de punta. Quería añadir una nueva palabra a mi serie: CAIDAS, PERFILES, y OFRENDA . Pero deseaba encontrar alguna idea positiva, alejarme de la muerte y reflexionar sobre la esperanza, la salida al problema. Y no se como, se me ocurrió: GRITOS ¿Qué le gritarías a esas mujeres que sufren?. ¿Qué mensajes de apoyo les dirías?.¿Cómo animarlas de alguna manera a salir de esa espiral?. Y así llevé a propuesta a clase. Empecé proponiendo yo algunos de los gritos que se me ocurrían y pedí nuevos a mis alumnos en cada clase. La lista se hacía grande, grande, se repetían las frases, pero fue muy emocionante ver manos levantadas para proponer nuevos gritos y lo claro que mis alumnos lo tenían: ¡PUEDES CON TODO!, ¡NO ESTÁS SOLA!, ¡TU LO VALES!, ¡JUST DO IT!, ¡FEMELE POWER!, ¡QUIÉRETE!, ¡QUE NADA TE PARE!, ¡CREE EN TI!, ¡LUCHA POR LO QUE QUIERES!, ¡FUERA MIEDOS!,¡ ERES ÚNICA!, ¡CUÍDATE, ¡TE LO MERECES!, ¡ERES FUERTE!, ¡PUEDES SALIR!, ¡NO TE RINDAS!, ¡ERES INIGUALABLE!, ¡PAUSE THE GAME AND RESET! ¿Y la técnica?. ¿Como mezclar las imágenes del alumnado con su menajes? Mediante un Agamograph se me ocurrió mezclar retratos de cada uno de ellos con el grito que entre todos queríamos lanzar a esas mujeres que sufren, gritos de apoyo para mujeres con la autoestima por los suelos, faltas de valor por años de violencia y de impotencia."