SHARD

SHARD proposes imagination as a tool for social transformation. An interchange of dreams among participants is the starting point of this pilot action, which will then be transformed together into artistic expressions. The approach of this project makes it possible for participants to foster their critical spirit, deconstructing what is known and giving rise to new forms of creation.

The pilot action aims to unite high school students, university students and young prisoners from different cultural, linguistic, and social backgrounds in workshop activities together with teachers and artists. The purpose is to get to know each other, accept each other, tolerate each other, feel-idea-design-execute together artistic expressions/manifestations in different modes (theatre, writing, calligraphy, drawing, audio-video). Transformation of dreams into art forms enables overcoming any difference among participants, either they are personal, national, cultural, linguistic, religious, social, gender-related, etc.

What is expected to be reached by this pilot action?

FLOWRISHING
In the process of looking for a representation for the dreams, young people have to find other words, sounds, images, texts, etc., to complete them. Further, they will receive inputs and suggestions from professional artists, teachers, and peers to boost ideation, imagination and visions of the artistic product they will create. This creative experience will foster cross-curricular skills and have an impact on other classical disciplines, as well as on personal, social and political development.

DISRUPTION
The approach of this project enables students to develop a critical spirit, encouraging them to deconstruct existing knowledge and generate new forms of creation. This proposal seeks to question the idea of what is conceived as artistic and to explore the terrain of the disordered and strange. Different languages will be welcomed, intertwining one with the other, relating disciplinary contents present in the current school curriculum.

BOUNDARY CROSS
Any distance and diversity will be cancelled through an interchange of dreams among the participants of the partners involved in this project – if it is not possible to meet in person, dreams will travel through digital or ordinary postcards, through different artforms, which can be re-transformed by fellow participants in other countries or in prison through other forms of arts.

The evaluation process in this pilot covers aspects related to participants’ personal experience both regarding the artistic expression they develop and its impact on their personal development. All participants in the pilot, namely students, teachers, professors and researchers, as well as the audience (in open representations) will be involved in the evaluation. As a result, informing teaching practices will be delivered, through a renewed focus on arts-based education to increase attention, motivation, creative expression, cultural awareness and social value.