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RuralizArt Education - Activity Guide. Artistic Residencies as Non-Formal Learning Tools for Youth Participation in Rural Areas
A practical guide that transforms artistic and community-based processes from an Erasmus+ project into non-formal education and youth participation tools, adaptable to different contexts and age groups.
Aims of the tool
The tool aims to support youth workers, educators, artists and community activators in using artistic processes and participatory practices as non-formal education and youth participation devices in rural and marginal contexts. It seeks to value collective artistic processes as spaces for learning, dialogue and meaning-making, to make complex experiences of artistic residencies and community-based work transferable and adaptable to educational contexts, to support young people’s active engagement with territories, memories and local communities, and to provide practical tools to facilitate inclusive processes of participation, expression and collective imagination.
Description of the tool
RuralizArt Education is a learning tool based on an Erasmus+ Small-scale Partnership that explored how artistic and community-based processes can become meaningful non-formal education and youth participation experiences in rural contexts. The guide collects a set of activities developed and implemented in Spain, Italy and Portugal, bringing together artists, youth workers and local communities in shared creative processes.
The activities are presented as they were carried out in real project settings and are complemented by reflections, facilitation notes and suggestions on how they can be adapted to different target groups, including young people aged 14–17. Each activity includes objectives, duration, group size, materials, space set-up, step-by-step process and links to sustainability and territorial themes, making the tool transferable and easy to use in other contexts.
Rather than offering fixed recipes, the guide proposes an open and flexible approach in which artistic processes function as educational devices that can be reinterpreted and reshaped by facilitators. By connecting art, territories and communities, RuralizArt Education supports participatory learning, critical reflection and collective imagination, enabling young people and adults to explore places, memories and possible futures together.
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Tool overview
http://toolbox.salto-youth.net/5406
This tool is for
Youth workers, educators, community facilitators and artists working in educational and community contexts with young people and groups in rural and marginal areas, including activities addressed to adolescents aged 14–17.
and addresses
Youth Participation
It is recommended for use in:
Strategic Partnerships
Materials needed:
The guide is a modular collection of activities. Each activity includes a detailed list of the materials required, ranging from basic art supplies to natural, recycled and space-setting materials.
Duration:
The tool is modular and can be used both in single activities lasting 30–90 minutes and as part of longer processes such as workshops, educational pathways, artistic residencies or multi-day training courses.
Behind the tool
The tool was created by
Circolo Legambiente Ligonchio APS, in collaboration with Canopia Coop. V. (Spain) and Associação Juventude de Vila Fonche (Portugal).
in the context of
Erasmus+ Small-scale Partnership RuralizArt Education, based on artistic and community-based processes developed through two artistic residencies and one training course in rural contexts in Spain, Italy and Portugal.
The tool has been experimented in
Artistic residencies, Training course, Workshops, Community-based activities
The tool was published to the Toolbox by
Airin Toscani (on 15 January 2026)
and last modified
14 January 2026
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