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Spain - Learning Environment Mobility - responsibility & commitment - resilience - self reflection
Take Off Take in Catalonia
Project in programm “Integration through exchange”
Focus of the project
Art Workshop with professional artist and final exibition in Barcelona
Second month: Internship in companies
Situation (what is happening and where )
A group of 12 young participants working one month in an art studio in the harbour quarters of Barcelona, a quarter where many artists have their art studios. Goal with the visual art workshop was to show the participants art work at the end of the month in a public vernissage. The supervisor was a professional artist. The professional artist gave “direction” in terms of topics for the participants to interpret in their own way. At the end of the workshop an official vernissage was organised by the participants to show their art work to people they didn’t know. After the visual art workshop, the participants embarked on a 4 week internship in small businesses around Barcelona. The participant and organiser together sought out appropriate internships.
Important Aspects
+Professional artist as supervisor (no teachers)
+Clear expected result (preparation of an exibition for the public showing all the artwork the youngsters did during one month.)
+Public work (the final exibition of the artwork is a real event so the participants have to prepare the exibition (buy food and drinks, manage money, make flyers etc and make publicity to invite people) .
+Support from a professional team (artist, social worker who gives pedagocial support, help from language school staff solving lange problems)
+Group dynamics/real life social setting (do participants help each other or not, is there a competion between them, who can do what, who is great and who is not)
+Guidance during the stay by social worker at home and in Barcelona through the IdA Project
+Give responsibility; participant is an offical crew member, responsible for his/her task within the project.
Softskills
1. Responsibility & commitment
2. Resilience
3. Self reflection
Learning Principles
Learning-by-doing
Free to do art work only with the guidance by a professional artist who gives direction, but does not say what to do.
FREE YOUR MIND AND MAKE ART WITHOUT THINKING TOO MUCH
Ability to listen and take instructions and turn these into reliable actions to prepare art work for a real exhibition.
Understanding of important parameters in the project like punctuality, responsibility, to be open minded to people they don‘t know in order to be able to to ask for help in all kinds of situations abroad, not only in the visual art workshop
Support from professionals
Ability to listen and take instructions and turn these into reliable actions to prepare art work for a real exhibition.
Participants will realize their own strengths and weaknesses by feedback from artist, social worker and also the other participants
Support of the artist allows participants to improve their art skills benefiting from the know-how and advice from the artist.
Peer-to-peer learning
Learning from each other by living together in shared flats during 2 months which was a new situation for many of them.
Participants will realize their own strengths and weaknesses by feedback from artist, social worker and also the other participants
The team of 12 people is a social setting where social soft skills and socializing are trained naturally. IdA-social pedagogues are balancing and putting a perspective to actions at work, reflection.
“Simple“ every day tasks are already a learning field for participants (who is doing the dishes who is not, what do we eat for dinner, who is cooking, who ate all the food in the fridge, who is not cleaning the bathroom etc..) living together and doing activities together offers many opportunities of learning to handle conflict managament, negotiate, stand up for oneself, compromise - a good level of communication needed for a constructive and positive solution.
