A Study on Community Competence Enhancement Using Participatory Pop-up Store Art Program

Focusing on the concept of visitor participation emphasized in contemporary art, this study explored the educational effects of participatory art education programs borrowing the form of non-commercial pop-up stores. We analyzed how community competence is enhanced through the process of planning and operating temporary exhibition spaces by elementary school students themselves. This program, consisting of a total of 13 sessions in elementary art classes, was operated around student-led creative activities and cooperative experiences, and through this, students were able to accumulate experience of relationship formation, communication, and cooperation, recognize the social role of art, and expand convergent thinking. As a result of the study, the pop-up store-based participatory art program contributed to inducing voluntary participation of students and effectively enhancing sub-competencies such as community diversity, openness, subjectivity, continuous connection, positive influence, and consideration. This study suggests that participatory art education, which combines planning and experience, has a positive effect on students' formation of a sense of community and can promote the experience of social solidarity and interaction through art.