Emma Nylander

In my degree project, I’ve worked with the public, democratic space and the images we encounter there. The images I took an interest in have primarily comprised street art, such as murals, graffiti and tagging, as well as commercial images, with or without artistic elements.

These images have formed the starting point for conversations with young people in which we have discussed questions such as: Whose space is this really? What messages are allowed to be presented? Whose voices are heard? Who gets to decide how our spaces should look, and how do we want that decision to look?

Street art has the power to tangibly discuss these questions in real time and, as a teacher, I want to further explore this potential in my pedagogical work.