ABSTRACT
Intervene: Heroes and Villains is a multidisciplinary project addressing early-age school dropout using the disciplines of art, psychology, and social work. After the setting up, the team grew with psychologists, filmmakers, visual arts teachers, and museum educators. The project acknowledged its limitations of intervention within a small part of the community to represent young people at the risk of early-age school dropout. The project started off with a team composed of art historians, artists, and social workers. The decision of layering various artistic forms and other disciplines in a multidisciplinary team was taken at the early stages of the project. The project developed with a multidisciplinary team of psychologists, social workers, visual art teachers, art historians, artists, filmmakers, and museum educators. The architecture of the houses and their history in social and cultural terms, which reflected diverse self-contained African-American communities, Lowe decided to start a refurbishing process in a new form of artistic, cultural, and social action among the community.
