Cultural awakening from birth contributes to development sensory, emotional and cognitive of the child. Access to culture for all children and all families constitutes an important factor of equality and social justice.
There Cultural Awakening Week aimed to make visible the richness of the offer offered in the City of Geneva. Families turned out in large numbers to the various activities, whether at the Am Stram Gram Theater with musicians from the Orchester de la Suisse Romande, at the House of Creativity, at the Museum of Art and history or even at the Museum of Ethnography: all were sold out.
There wealth of this program demonstrates the investment of the teams in developing activities for families, as well as the close collaboration between cultural and early childhood professionals, in order to promote an offer adapted to the youngest .
In order to underline the fundamental role of cultural awareness in the development of the child, the Department of Social Cohesion and Solidarity (DCSS) and the Department of Culture and Digital Transition (DCTN) published a political document of cultural awareness from birth which lists eight commitments in favor of children, families and professionals.
As part of this week, Samah Karakidoctor in neuroscience and founder of Social Brain Instituteintervened to highlight the mechanisms and conditions of cultural awakening. Its conference – “Culture as we breathe” – questioned our capacity to “awaken culturally”.
Culture as we breathe
It is starting from the term Infülhungintroduced by German philosophers in the second part of the 19th century and translated by the word empathy, which Samah Karaki proposes to navigate between different disciplines – brain biology, psychology and social sciences – in order to understand the mechanisms of cultural awakening and the conditions favoring “possible learning” of culture.
During his intervention, Samah Karaki questions and explores this empathy in the aesthetic experience, that is to say “this ability to identify with the feelings, with the emotions of the author of an artistic work”. She emphasizes in particular that culture cannot be tamed in a few outings and activities, but that it requires that we “bathe in it”, that the culture is not imposed on the child, that it requires create the need in the child, so that he has the desire to participate and to be actor of cultural experiences.
From this intimate relationship between cultural awakening and attention to othersarises the possibility of a openness to otherness and of tolerance to ambiguity, both necessary for the transformation of the culture in which we are immersed and to which we contribute.
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