Shell-less Snail: Reclaiming spatial justice through community-based art education in Taiwan
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study explores how community-based art education (CBAE) fosters social justice in the face of urban displacement. In YongHe, Taiwan, when redevelopment threatened a vital public space, a collaborative project mobilized residents and students to co-create participatory art interventions. This initiative cultivated a pedagogy rooted in commoning and citizenship, as artistic inquiry enabled participants to confront housing precarity, reimagine belonging and enact civic engagement. Grounded in social justice art education (SJAE), the project embedded art learning within a lived commons using arts-based participatory action research (AB-PAR). A central intervention – building a temporary structure called the Shell-less Snail in a public space threatened by urban development – critiqued technocratic urbanism and reclaimed space through collective creation. Ultimately, its civic impact earned national media attention, illustrating how collaborative art-making can cultivate civic agency and critical spatial awareness. It offers valuable insights for K-12 educators seeking to empower students as agents of systemic change and reimagine democratic urban futures from the ground up.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".