projects and articles by members
Everyday environment / Workshop
Date: spring 2003
Time length: 3 days workhop, pre-session 1 day
Partnerships: Jyväskylä teachers training school, local artist Martti Kapanen, Alvar Aalto Museum and National Council of Architecture.
Participants: 22 high-school students aged 15-16
Goals/Aims: To get student beeing aware of their buildt surrounding, to observe and to be critical.
Methodology: To wake up the interest by giving background knowledge of the larger project called Everyday environment and to shake the normal way of seeing and thinking. Photographing was chosen as a tool.
Description of Events: By having a discussion what each people think is beautiful and what is ugly and why - in their everyday hanging areas. By showing a different ways of thinking we had local photography artist telling and showing his works. The students were photographing the city and combining they photos either as posters using a collage or binding them as books and commenting what was nice detail in a city and what was not.
Outcomes: The students were quite amazed about what kind of details they found from the city which they normally didn't observe. They became aware that urban areas are combinations of many small things not only buildings and streets.
Extra: The material produced by the students, the artist and the curator was developed as an internet exhibition and will be published in 2005.
