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[Secret Lights]
Workshop and performance
Date:
Dezember 2006
Place:
stadt.bau.raum Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Time length:
1 Day
Partnerships:
JAS – Jugend Architektur Stadt e.V. in co-operation with stadt.bau.raum Gelsenkirchen.
Participants:
15 children between 6-13 years old
Theme, Goals/Aims, Methodology:
The aim of the workshop was to strengthen the children’s awareness of the interdependence of light, space, and atmosphere. Based on the story of Emma, Lukas and a mysterious Shadowman and their adventures, the children were invited to explore different sceneries of light and space: an illuminated gardens, the fair with its colourful lights, the dim tent of the sibyl, the ice-blue lake, the Forest of the long Shadows, and finally the cave of wizard. In small groups, these sceneries where translated into several light-installations (using overhead- and slide-projectors). The installations were finally presented to the parents in a story-telling performance.
Outcomes:
The workshop supported the children’s awareness of light, space and their interdependence, as well as their ability to create different atmospheres by the means of light, space and colour.
