We are an Amsterdam-based art education foundation interested in helping you design, develop, and facilitate participatory art methodologies. How do we foster autonomy, critical thinking, and an ethical gaze in all steps of a community art project? How do we embrace complexity, braveness, and contradictions when dealing with participation, co-creation, and collaboration? For about ten years, we have been working internationally with groups in conflict, at-risk, and youth, as well as for civic engagement and a fairer public space. HoP is located at OT301 - an alternative, nonprofit platform as a collective that contributes to the arts, politics, and subculture scene.

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Team

  • David Limaverde

    He is an art educator, interested in participatory art methodologies, shared authorships and community care practices - with humans and non-humans. If not in Amsterdam or the classroom, he might be somewhere in South America. @davidlimaverde // @homeofparticipation // davidlimaverde.art // LinkedIn

  • Andréia Bessa

    Human Rights educator & trainer with a social psychology background, Andreia is a participatory arts practitioner, hoping for a grassroots revolution for a world based on equality and human rights for all. The constant process of developing and exploring new ways to engage with others, grow together, and rebuild a different system based on social justice is important to her. @and.reia_bessa // @caatprojects // caatprojects.eu

  • Uriara Maciel

    Uriara Maciel was born in Bahia in north-eastern Brazil. She currently lives in Berlin and works as a theatremaker and actress. She is dedicated to researching and staging texts with a decolonial vision and feminist themes. In Theatre of the Oppressed, she worked with Augusto Boal (2006 - 2009) and with Bárbara Santos since 2007. @negrauri // uriaramaciel.com

  • George Bean

    She is a freelance teacher, performer, and maker with 20+ years of experience in the fields of (physical) theatre and performance. George brings her love of participatory methodologies to all her work (teaching or creating), and she has a particular interest in trans-inclusive feminism and decolonial pedagogical practices. georgebean.com // amsterdamkidsdramadance.com // LinkedIn

Siblings

  • Fossil Free Culture NL

    Fossil Fossil Free Culture NL is a collective of artists, activists, and researchers working at the intersection of art and climate activism. FFCNL engages in Strategic Artistic Disobedience to build a Fossil Free Future that is feminist, anti-racist, intergenerational, diverse, queer, and decolonial. Their founding goal is to end oil and gas sponsorship of public cultural institutions in the Netherlands, and more broadly, to critically erode social license for the fossil fuel industry. @fossilfreeculturenl // fossilfreeculture.nl

  • CAAT Projects

    CAAT Projects is a creative mix of individuals who believe in positive change. CAAT stands for Creating Arts and Alternatives Together and it uses creativity and arts to empower vulnerable groups and promote human rights and tolerant communities. We will keep on building an impressive record of successful projects in the Netherlands and abroad, achieving the goals set in the organizational planning. @caatprojects // caatprojects.eu

  • OT301

    OT301 is a nonprofit project in which public functions, workspaces, and housing are combined to contribute to the fields of art, politics, and subculture. The project is run by a diverse, international community that organizes itself as an association. Having started as a squat in 1999, OT301 today is collectively owned and committed to the values of autonomy and self-organization. All backgrounds, nationalities, genders, orientations, and ages are welcome. @OT301adam // ot301.nl

  • Tecno Barca

    ​Tecno Barca is a gallery boat, a residency, and an art festival focusing on education, environment, communication, new technologies, and sociocultural exchanges with riverside communities in the Amazon, in northern Brazil. The actions of artists and other participating professionals can occur in public spaces, as well as forests and rivers in the region. @tecnobarcabailique // tecnobarca.com