Disability and citizenship

Doctorate

Victor Romero-Rojas

Victor is an actor from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC), Master in Cognitive Development from Universidad Diego Portales and The Feuerstein Institute, Israel, and PhD (c) in Social Psychology from Universidad de Chile, ANID 2021 fellow. He also has a specialization in mediation for the development of thinking in the Instrumental Enrichment Program.

He is an interdisciplinary assistant professor at the Faculties of Arts and Medicine UC. His undergraduate and graduate teaching focuses on the field of applied arts, performance and disability from critical perspectives.

His research focuses on democratization and access to culture as a right, critical studies of disability and the construction of citizenship through artivist practices in public space.

He is currently a member of the National Collective for Disability (CONADIS), General Coordinator of the UC Down Syndrome Center and Executive Director of Fundación Mawen, where he directs the company Música- Teatro.

He also published “Trilogía del hilo rojo: un vuelo de Shakespeare por Chile” in Akanni Ediciones and is working on his next book, about artistic proposals for emotional development in diverse classrooms and non-formal educational contexts.