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Play ^Well sessions bricks4futures

place Austria

#creativeclassroom #mentalhealth #wellbeing #socialecology #playfullearning #moralimagination #STEAM

At Bricks4Futures/dots4futures, we're revolutionizing inclusive education and personal development through the power of creativity by moderated sessions with blind & non-blind students and adults, in a multilingual setting with arts&creative design Our Play ~ Well concept innovative approach aligns with UN Sustainable Development Goals, particularly SDG4 +SDG11+SDG12 for SDG 3, 5, 8, 10, 16

Overview

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Web presence

2019

Established

10K

Children

1

Countries
Target group
Teachers
Updated
May 2024
Improved BVI students professional development with talent guide, STEAM, and cross-sectoral partnerships, internships, and careers in arts, media, and cultural sector, business corporations, health care, ...; Improved communicational skills and relational cultures, engaged, responsible, creative, agile, empathic students&teachers, mindful learning, and activities, #nooneleftbehind

About the innovation

Why did you create this innovation?

Play well bricks4futures concept is grounded in the sense of care for and curiosity about interests, views & experiences of diverse learners, particularly of the BVI youth & adults, and is aimed to support and provide innovative learning methods and environments with arts and creative design for barrier-free access, inter- & cross-disciplinary engagement in sustainable development education.

What does your innovation look like in practice?

2-hour or all-day sessions, collaborative inquiry-based learning by somatic practices such as dance meditation, respiratory sessions, science experiments and Global Citizenship-activities, AI-&braille art, in a place with a good social and environmental atmosphere, by which imagination, play, co-creation & also stillness & leisure are included into engagement. Drawing upon Humanistic values, relational pedagogy, and inquiry-based learning philosophy, which forms the core value pillars for engaging and connecting the bricks4futures, teachers & students are attending and co-creating STEAM-sensorial sessions, research, debate, and presentations, which end with a reception. Practicing hospitality, exchanging critical views, but sharing visions and engaging in local, national, and global actions for SDGs, greening relational cultures 4now&then

How has it been spreading?

social media, recommendations, workshops, seminars, Austrian SDG Award for the Orange Feather initiative- bricks for relational cultures without violence- art-based educational workshop with media & AI

If I want to try it, what should I do?

Imagine, when pronouncing: Let´s brick & Play Well, make a note about what matters for you and how would it be possible to improve if any under condition, challenge, reach out to a blind community (if you are sighted), ask them for their perspective, connect, ... contact us for support

Implementation steps

The social and environmental climate and atmosphere
Pose-Create&Construct-Compose-
1. pose your question or a statement related to your social & environmental climate & atmosphere
2. Create&construct your well-bricks with key terms related to well-being in your learning/teaching/working environment
3. Exchange with your colleagues_/students/parents, connect all creations and compose them all together within one common frame
4. dance&music: ensembling, moving
The second phase will include adaptive design and innovative solutions, brick-by-brick
Let´s Brick: including diverse resources, needs, interests, ..
Brick-by-Brick- process:
include diverse existing ideal (talents, interests, needs, knowledges) and material resources;
Make a list, collect, and connect all existing and missing /desired bricks ;
Set priorities together with your colleagues/students ..
Make a simple first test, start with simple adaptive design and cost-efficient solutions, use imagination and creativity to optimize social and environmental climate and the atmosphere, adapt, re-design, mix, create, re-create, dance together

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