tiistai 25. kesäkuuta 2013

Intervention at College of the Arts, Namibia

The students at Cota has thought about words that they associate with Finland. They made posters about the words and then we discussed about them. This was very interesting interaction between the Finns and the Namibians as well as learning opportunity about the two cultures. The idea was to develop a dialogue on which cultural co-operation can be based on. A great way to understand each others better. Further students worked out paper cities and discussed how Finnish-Namibian Cultural co-operation could help developing the City.  Students came up with great ideas on innovation development, social and technology design, empowering the young people to make the change themselves not receiving help. Working with the papercity at youtube http://youtu.be/dLlzQrPXXkQ


torstai 20. kesäkuuta 2013

Getting into photoshoot!

The third workshop day started with busy production phase. Textile production is taking place and photoshoot started for the Dream World story. Textiles are an important part of the storyline.
The protoshoot represent several viewpoint into the story: the overall situation, user point of you and close-ups of the main characters in the story. What a busy day!  Check out the fashion show here:  http://youtu.be/RvVrPfcHhiI
 

keskiviikko 19. kesäkuuta 2013

The Dream World project was shortlisted for the WDC14 in Cape Town

Our Dream World project was shortlisted for the World Design Capital in Cape Town 2014. Cape Town 2014 here we come. My Dream World project will conduct workshop and an exhibition in Cape Town 2014.

Talking about the Dream World and Staring with the storyboard

The second day at the workshop continued with discussing about the Dream World that was build on the first day. The paper cities were build on equality and on sustainability. The Dream Team wanted to give everyone an equal opportunity to reach different neighbourhoods and services. The services should be free or of minimum charge. Further, the green thinking and recycling was considered important. The group played short stories about their Dream World. These short stories were iterated further in the afternoon when  we started with storyboards and making of probes for the final drama. The Dream story that the group came up is about "Keeping the city Clean. Dance break at youtube http://youtu.be/r8mJuEQjCWE

tiistai 18. kesäkuuta 2013

My Dream World in Keetmanshoop with the Dream Team

My Dream World worshop started at Keetmanshoop with the Dream Team of Ombetja Yehiga. The Dream Team is a talented group of young people who use sining and dancing to share AIDS/HIV awarness. We started the first day (17.6.2013) with the group with sharing our good memories and gettining to know each others. Sharing a memory tells something personal about us and in this way we can relate to each others better. After this we were discussing the challanges and problems (rape, abuse, negligence, negative attitude, Hiv/aids) of the present day and how the dream world should be about (love, respect, peace, no drugs, no abuse) We built a bridge from the present day problems into the dream world. The gap was bridged with the actions (be honest, go hiv test, respect, never give up) that you can do to reach for the dreamworld. The Dream Team carried out to build their paper city of dreams and to city planning. This was done in small groups where participants discussed what should the dream city be like. The first day included also a drama work where we were creating a persona for the dream world and a short story or service joyrney about the things that the dream world would have. Interview of one of the participants at youtube http://youtu.be/PTBEQRoT-0s