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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

Information on this page is provided by the innovator and has not been evaluated by HundrED.

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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