Al Moutawassit: cultural mediation as a meeting point publication is the result of Manifesta 13 Tiers Programme project, the autumn school for young professionals working in the fields of contemporary art, formal education, research, and social action in Algeria, France, Morocco, and Tunisia. The publication is composed of three parts. The first is devoted to commissioned texts that contextualize what is understood as audience engagement and education in the different national perimeters participating in the Al Moutawassit project. The second part of the publication documents the work of the twenty-one participants of Al Moutawassit. They worked in groups on four thematic approaches to education and outreach: decentring and decolonising knowledge; situated, territorialised mediation; questioning methodologies; and institutional analysis and power relations within institutions. A collective bibliography closes the publication and brings together resources gathered during the online school and augmented by the
