This paper explores experimental methodologies in art education, highlighting how error and unpredictability foster creative development. By prioritising process over final outcomes, these approaches encourage artistic confidence, risk-taking, and adaptability. The study analyses two sessions from the Cri_Lab project, an experimental creative laboratory focused on alternative image-making techniques. The first session introduced cyanotype, a historical photographic process that fosters tactile engagement and experimentation, encouraging students to embrace creative accidents and shift their focus from technical precision to critical observation. The second session explored monotype, a printmaking technique that generates unique, uncontrolled results, challenging students to engage with abstraction and spontaneous mark-making. Both sessions demonstrated that when freed from rigid expectations, students became more willing to experiment, accept mistakes, and refine their artistic decisions. This study emphasises the pedagogical value of error-friendly methodologies, where failure is transformed into a generative force. The integration of cyanotype and monotype into art education fosters process-based learning, encouraging discovery, expressive freedom, and material interaction, where the unexpected becomes an essential element of creativity.

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Critical pedagogy,art education,arte,monotipia,cianotipia

• Educational Sciences - Social Sciences