Orienting our north to the South

Abstract

The following work invites us to reflect on the extent to which the principles outlined in 1935 by the Uruguayan artist Joaquín Torres García and which laid the foundations of the Escuela del Sur project in Montevideo heralded the end of the colonial period in artistic production but also, intellectual and scientific as well, in Latin America, the approach of this School will be described to be put in dialogue with some principles of the "epistemologies of the South" and with the current exercise of teaching at the higher level in general and at university level in particular through the critical extension, which promotes the integrality of training through experiences of socio-educational and socio-community practices in the field, allowing to retrace inherited logics in the search for a new organizing paradigm of the teaching-learning processes within the more relatable and inclusive public university, reorienting its centrality towards a situated knowledge, putting community and academic realities, and popular and scientific knowledge in tension, with the aim of learning from and with others.