«AROUND THE CITY, WE STROLL» Workshop by students of LABA Valencia. European project ACDC.
The ACDC European project is a small-scale partnership in the field of school education aiming at the co-creation and validation of teaching and learning materials for climate change education. The project is coordinated by LABA Valencia (Spain) with the collaboration of Casa da Imagem and Agrupamento de Escolas de Cristelo (Portugal).
The students of LABA Valencia have developed four workshops, among them «AROUND THE CITY, WE STROLL», with very special creative results. All of them are adapted to secondary school students and other young students.
«AROUND THE CITY, WE STROLL»
The way we live, use and see the city/town/village, both individually and collectively, is defined by our daily journeys. Routes that we often walk without thinking, without really living or seeing the place. This workshop proposes slowing down and strolling through the city, defining a mental path in the confrontation of reference images – street names, signs, façades, neon, people, trees and memories, and realising how present climatic emergencies are in our daily lives: a tree that has been cut down, a lawn that has turned into tarmac, a bin overflowing with rubbish, a street overflowing with cars. Or a weed between two parallels, a bird singing on a high-voltage pole, the wind whistling through a solitary tree.
The results of the workshop come from the processing of images and sounds, which result in two dimensions of the city – the two-dimensionality of the map and the three-dimensionality of the cinema experienced, which gives it another scale, another dynamic and another look.
The workshops have been successfully tested by more than 200 students and 20 teachers in Spain and Portugal. The LABA Valencia students involved in the ACDC project are from the BAH in Digital Media and BAH in Photography and video: Michelle Castillo, Joana Soler and Sergio Pons.
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