Franchi, Alexandre (2024) Quest for Communitas: Using the carnivalesque aesthetic to co-design a transformative rite of passage with high-school dropouts– a generative exploration. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
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Abstract
The Province of Quebec has a staggering high school dropout rate of 19% for boys and 12% for girls. Often, efforts to help these young people are mostly focused on remedial school work. As such, they fail to fully address some key psychological elements of adolescence and early adulthood. For this project, I therefore decided to look at the problem by considering adolescence as a transitional or liminal phase from youth to adulthood, one necessitating special recognition by the larger community. I also considered the adolescent brain's propensity for risk-taking and its desire for heroic stories as means to discover the world during this liminal period. This led me to look to rites of passage, play, theatre and the aesthetic of the carnivalesque as means to create humorous, and symbol-laden ways for the youth to engage with the world.
The research took the form of eight (8) day-long sessions, structured like a rite of passage, focusing on rituals that were co-designed with a group of high school dropouts attending a youth center in Trois-Rivières. We used Future Workshops Participatory Design principles and Augusto Boal’s Games for Actors and Non-Actors as means to encourage free and authentic contributions from the participants. The work was at times filmed in order to provide participants with a method for self-analysis crucial in their ritual design. Beyond increasing participants’ self-esteem and sense of belonging, this project provides educational designers with new play-based ideas for engaging youth as well as a carnivalesque approach for participatory design.
| Divisions: | Concordia University > Faculty of Fine Arts > Design and Computation Arts |
|---|---|
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
| Authors: | Franchi, Alexandre |
| Institution: | Concordia University |
| Degree Name: | M.Des. |
| Program: | Design |
| Date: | 4 March 2024 |
| Thesis Supervisor(s): | Khaled, Rilla and Barr, Pippin |
| Keywords: | high school dropout rate, adolescence, liminal period, rites of passage, play, theatre, carnivalesque, youth engagement, participatory design, educational design, transformation, existential |
| ID Code: | 993600 |
| Deposited By: | ALEXANDRE FRANCHI |
| Deposited On: | 04 Jun 2024 15:24 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Jun 2024 15:24 |
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