Papers by Guillermo Marini
Journal of Aesthetic Education, 2026
This article proposes the notion of "aesthetics of school care" as a conceptual and methodologica... more This article proposes the notion of "aesthetics of school care" as a conceptual and methodological tool for exploring how care is lived within schools. First, bridging the "ethics of care" and "everyday aesthetics," the article argues that school care is not only an ethical responsibility but also an embodied, sensory, and relational practice shaped by material, spatial, and atmospheric conditions. Through an interdisciplinary dialogue between school aesthetics, architecture, and public health, the paper examines how pedagogical practices, school design, and adolescent health orientations converge to configure students' experiences of care. Second, the article operationalizes this approach into a structured analytical guideline that identifies key dimensions of care-such as spatial conditions, adaptability of spaces, physical learning environment, emotional atmosphere, and sense of belonging-across classrooms, cafeterias, and courtyards. To illustrate the applicability of this framework, a case study from a Chilean public high school is presented, showing how everyday material decisions, environments and objects mediate caring relations. The case highlights both the constraints and potentials of existing school spaces to express care in participatory and context-sensitive ways. In conclusion, the articles argues that care in schools is not an accidental matter, but a decisive condition for cultivating attention, belonging, and mutual recognition. What is more, by situating care within the sensory and intersubjective dynamics of school life, the article contributes to broader discussions on education, and calls for a reconceptualization of schools as venues where the capacity to care and be cared for is aesthetically formed.
Visual Communication, 2025
This visual essay portrays the historical development of an invisibilized space in Chilean school... more This visual essay portrays the historical development of an invisibilized space in Chilean schools: the dining hall. By analysing eight archive-based figures and one food-related poster from the early 20th century to the 21st century, the essay calls into question the relationships between visual aesthetics and educational policies. The authors argue that this typically unnoticed space can help problematize peculiar features of the visual culture of schools, the educational policies that shape food and health in schools, and the everyday practices of commensality that make the dining hall a unique educational venue.
ARQ, 2024
A lo largo del siglo XX, las reformas educativas en Chile y el aumento en la escolaridad impulsar... more A lo largo del siglo XX, las reformas educativas en Chile y el aumento en la escolaridad impulsaron al Estado a buscar sistemas que facilitaran la expansión de la infraestructura educativa a escala nacional. Este artículo discute el proceso de estandarización de los entornos escolares rurales. Examinándolo a la luz de nociones modernistas como “tipología” y “estándares”, se revelan las características únicas de un proceso que, a lo largo del tiempo y a través de distintos actores, exploró diversos enfoques hacia la estandarización funcional, formal y técnica.
Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2025
This paper explores sensory perception in classrooms, and the relationship between classrooms and... more This paper explores sensory perception in classrooms, and the relationship between classrooms and nature in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. First, it argues that this crisis provides a unique opportunity to rethink how we perceive classrooms and their connection with nature. Second, the paper describes what students and teachers usually see, hear, touch, smell, and taste in classrooms, and identifies unusual or overlooked sensory phenomena that COVID-19 has brought to our attention. Third, the paper discusses three types of classrooms (traditional, innovative learning environment, open-air) and how they model our perception and conceptualization of nature. The paper concludes by emphasizing the relevance of everyday aesthetics in education, what stands as an opportunity to sensorially enrich pedagogy, and to approach classrooms as proper dwellings for both humans and other-than-human beings.
Visual Ethnography, 2024
This report describes the relationship between a rural school in northern Patagonia and its immed... more This report describes the relationship between a rural school in northern Patagonia and its immediate surroundings. Through an ethnographic approach, it brings together different images of the everyday lives of students and teachers, challenging the boundaries between anthropocentric moralities and ecological urgencies, state education and Mapuche cosmovision, classroom and forest.
Formakademisk, 2023
This article reports the findings of a study aimed at exploring the visual discourses at a Chilea... more This article reports the findings of a study aimed at exploring the visual discourses at a Chilean education university. First, building on the classic 'hidden curriculum' and 'school art style' literature, it justifies the need to discuss how higher education institutions model the ways through which teachers-to-be comprehend and use visual resources. Second, the article presents the results of a critical visual methodology performed in the oldest education university in Chile. Through a visual discourse analysis of the experience of walking around the campus, it elaborates on the university's visual styles comprising the themes, technologies and locations of artefacts. Third, it discusses the relationships between courtyard and hallway images loaded with critical motivations and classroom images portraying stereotyped and anachronistic views of childhood. The article concludes by urging to incorporate quality visual pedagogy orientations in teacher education.
Biocultural homogenization in elementary education degree students from contrasting ecoregions of Chile
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Papers by Guillermo Marini