The Mind as an Illustrated Book
Cătălin Partenie
PHILOSOPHY AND ART WORKSHOP FOR CHILDREN
Saturday, October 17 · 11:00
Philosophy and art workshop for children aged 8–14
Cost: 100 lei – includes a visit to the Picasso en visite exhibition
Art Encounters, 46C Take Ionescu Boulevard, Timișoara
Plato’s dialogues are like a world that invites you to explore it. We will start with two of them, Timaeus and Critias, in which we learn how the ancient city of Athens defeated Atlantis, a great power that sought to subjugate many other cities and territories. Starting from a fragment of the dialogue Critias, we will try to imagine what the city of Atlantis looked like and then draw it. We will look at and discuss each other’s drawings, after which we will talk about how we can learn through play—a theme in Plato’s philosophy.
These ideas are explored in Cătălin Partenie’s book Atlantis and Plato’s Children (2025), which aims to encourage readers to travel into Plato’s world. It is a world you need to see with your own eyes in order to marvel at it. The book will be available at the Art Encounters Bookshop.
Cătălin Partenie teaches philosophy at the Faculty of Political Science of the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration in Bucharest. He studied philosophy at the universities of Bucharest, Oxford, Heidelberg and Glasgow. Together with Petru Creția, he translated Plato’s dialogues Timaeus and Critias. He has edited several volumes, including Plato. Selected Myths (Oxford World’s Classics) and Plato’s Myths (Cambridge University Press). His first novel, The Golden Lair, received two awards and has been translated into Romanian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and German. Together with Bogdan Mureșanu, he wrote the screenplay for the short film A Glass of Milk, which premiered at the Serile Filmului Românesc festival in Iași in 2026.
Tickets and registration → https://bilete.artencounters.ro/?p=event&e=40507
