education

Drawing the Field: Art, Embodiment, and the Science of Group Dynamics

| Marc Santolini

Over several days, I joined a group of approximately thirty educators, artists, and researchers for the Crafting Pedagogies of Togetherness residency—a prototype initiative investigating how embodied awareness practices can inform both educational pedagogy and collaborative methodologies. The residency was designed and facilitated by Studio Atelierista as part of a project co-funded by Erasmus+, and took place in a rural studio context, functioning as a site of transdisciplinary experimentation. Together, we articulated and tested new forms of learning that are relational, affectively attuned, and somatically grounded.

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Teams That Thrive: AI-Driven Collaboration for Youth Participation

| Marc Santolini

Team success isn’t just about outcomes—it’s also about how people feel, relate, and engage along the way. Understanding and improving this human dimension of participation is key to building teams that flourish. That’s the question we set out to answer in our latest study in the journal Computers and education: Artificial Intelligence, a collaboration between the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute in Spain and our team at the Learning Planet Institute in Paris. Together, we explored how artificial intelligence can help compose better teams in Challenge-Based Learning (CBL) environments, with a special focus on participants’ experiences—what we call participation quality.

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