Another Roadmap African Cluster (ARAC)

Another Roadmap Africa Cluster (ARAC) is an exhibition by a group of African scholars and practitioners of artistic and cultural education who have been collaborating, since 2015, to pursue a joint programme of research into arts educational practices in their respective localities. Operating in both formal and informal contexts across the African continent, their research is critically informed and grounded in historical analysis, particularly with respect to Africa’s colonial heritage. 

ARAC is a cluster of Another Roadmap School, which is a self-organised network of practitioners and researchers of artistic and cultural education based in over twenty-four cities on four continents worldwide. ARAC’s working groups are based in African cities and are currently active in Kampala, Nyanza, Lubumbashi, Kinshasa, Maseru, Johannesburg, Lagos, and Cairo. The cluster’s aim is to build a shared knowledge base and a structure of mutual learning that will benefit African practitioners and contribute to advances in thinking and practice worldwide.

For the Javett-UP’s iteration, ARAC primarily focuses on the Schoolbook Project, which aims to enhance access to the work that the group has done, and the knowledge it has produced since 2015. These include PROVOCATIONS, a collection of the questions and provocations in arts education; EXERCISES which systematise the methodologies we have developed; and GLOSSARY a compilation of glossaries of indigenous African words that are used to describe concepts unlike but akin to European concepts of art, artist, aesthetics, design, and education.