NSEAC - North South Ephemeral Art Communication

From North to South: Ephemeral Art as a means of Communication

NSEAC is a Comenius bilateral school partnership, part of the Lifelong Learning Programme, starting on January 1^st 2014, ending on July 31th 2015. The two partners participating are Stangnes videregående skole and Escola Massana.

Project description

This project intends to increase awareness of European linguistic and cultural diversity through actually encountering it. Additionally, the mobility will contribute in challenging students’ stereotypes and promote the attitude that they share an invaluable common ground.

English will function as the means of communication throughout the project. Students will use English in developing all educational projects. Therefore, students will not only improve their level of language competence, they will also learn to develop multilingual interests and attitudes.

The students will learn basic, every day words and expressions in Norwegian and Catalan respectively. These languages will function as target languages and students will be given the opportunity to learn and practice their “new” language both prior to and during the mobility. Learning technical expressions in relation to the workshops will be given much emphasis.

The project consist on sharing an aesthetic experience involving students in two different mixed workshops, to carry out ephemeral artistic products, with an ecological perspective related to their own natural and cultural environment. In Harstad they will carry out snow sculptures in an open public park; in Barcelona they will make kites by reeds inspired by Gaudi natural forms.

While both workshops are in progress, the students will do a photo and video report that will result in two exhibitions, one in each town.

The exchange of information between the students will be done through a common blog designed and managed by the teachers of both schools: it is going to be used before the mobility, between workshops; and at the end of the project.

Activities

There will be six basic activities throughout the project:

1. BLOG & INTERACTIVE ONLINE PROGRAMMES

2. SNOW SCULPTURE PROJECT IN HARSTAD

3. KITE PROJECT IN BARCELONA

4. PHOTO AND VIDEO REPORTS

5. TWO SEPARATE EXHIBITIONS IN HARSTAD AND BARCELONA

6. TECHNICAL GLOSSARY: CATALÀ - NORSK

Languages: Norwegian and Catalan

1. Students at Stangnes videregående skole will learn everyday words and expressions in mainly Catalan (and some Spanish) through blog, classroom activities and online interactive programmes.

2. Students at Escola Massana, Centro Superior de Arte y Diseño, will learn everyday words and expressions in Norwegian through blog, classroom activities and online interactive programmes.

Coordination and cooperation

Stangnes videregående skole is the Comenius Bilateral School Partnership’s Coordinator, and Magne Leon Heide is the teacher in charge at the school.
Cristina de la Cruz is the teacher in charge at Escola Massana.