Thinc: Austria, Vienna

Thinc
Austria, Vienna
Jessica Kennedy White, BA (hons) M.Sc Wolfson, University of

OxfordTOLERANCE
[email protected]
Thursday, 9 December 2010
Summary
_______________________________________________
• Vision Statement
• Mission Statement
• Context
• Target Beneficiaries
• Project Strategy
• Proposed Implementation
• Funding required

Vision Statement
Thinc is an Intercultural art education project

that finds a common language through art,
calling for appreciation of diversity within and
between different communities, so that
understanding and information flow between
communities can increase.

People have had
to
leave
part of themselves
behind
to “get ahead”

We All See Things Differently

We need to provide
environments where we can
experiment with our diverse
expressions of creativity.

so we all become co-
investigators in the creative
learning process

Creativity broadens the scope of how we interact with each other
creativity supports our multiple
visions for the future.

Mission Statement
Thinc by accepting diversity and by advocating that the

preservation of identity is all about accepting hybridity
we can be living and working towards a more peaceful
way of life through social inclusion on many levels
Thinc enables youth and adults to realise their highest
values and tolerance of each other`s diversity through
the emotive language of art.
Das Projekt
Die Grundidee des Thinc. Projekts, zeigt dass man durch
gegenseitiges interkulturelles Verständnis und durch
Akzeptanz der Verschiedenheit den Informationsaustausch
zwischen verschiedenen Gemeinschaften fördern und so zu
einem interkulturellen Dialog beitragen kann. Jede
Gemeinschaft hat über einen längeren Zeitraum eine
Symbolik entwickelt durch die sie on anderen
Gemeinschaften wahrgenommen wird, doch genau hier
kommen oft Vorurteile zu tragen, da die Gemeinschaften
gegenseitig nur ihre vereinfachten Stereotypen und
Vorurteile sehen und so der Informationsaustausch schon im
Vorfeld zum Scheitern verurteilt ist.

Current Context
Thinc is in line with 2011 European Year of Volunteering
Thinc joins the EU in this solidarity to support different
forms of exchange to create a new economy
promoting a society that sustains and develops quality
of life, social well-being and equal opportunities for all;
Boosts solidarity between generations and ensures
sustainable development.
EU education minister stakes
these aims as a top priority therefore
endorses the project fully.
Susanne Bransteidl head of schools fully endorses the
project and infrastructure mentoring will be supported
and by the Stadt Schul Rat. Further mentoring support
from EDUCULT

Our Creatively Diverse Landscape
intention + awareness + action + resources + network = sustainability
our actions not just of

good intentions to more consistently the resource exchange
must be diversified
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are all connect these
operating pieces to find new
ways of knowledge
within and resource
exchange

Background
&
Stakeholders*
Thinc is a project that came out of a pilot project
Intercultural Art Education that was in 2007-8 together
with the European year of intercultural dialogue and
then in 2008-9 it became V.I.A Values, Identity, Art that
is in line with the European year of creativity and
innovation. This has been supported by ACES
Association of Central and European Schools that was
created by the Interkulturelle Zentrum and funded by
the Erste Stiftung
The supporting organizations are KulturKontakt, Dr.
Michael Wimmer EDUCULT http://www.educult.at and
Horst Tschaikner, Rupert Corazza at StadtShulRat
Wien in Susanne Bransteidl Head of Schools Bureau.
They fully endorse the project and consult on project
competence and infrastructure.
Further consultants include child psychologists and
educators: Prof. Dr. Toni Reinelt and Prof. Dr. Gisela
Gerber
*for a further list of current stakeholders please see
Context
_______________________________________________
Current situation
• Lack of cross-curricular links hindering open-mindedness towards education
and culture
• Lower values are expressed through art and media, suggesting suppression
of higher values in education
• Students experience apathy and disengagement for learning, often students
are diagnosed with attention deficit disorder, when really it is the lack of
practical and creative engagement that is causing them to lose focus.
• Latent indifference and apathy towards different communities, causing
prejudices
• Teenagers that are wanting to creatively use their multiple intelligences are
finding that the current education system in Vienna is restricting
Existing Initiatives
• Initiatives have not succeeded in raising awareness of diversity leaving
stereotypes & lack of information flow between the different communities
• Currently there are creative projects, but none yet that address simultaneous
language learning and that enable a level of creativity that is healing and
innovative by connecting with our incredibly intersecting and diverse history.

Target Beneficiaries
________________________________________
Target Beneficiaries
• Teenagers from Austria, Vienna, Central and South Eastern Europe and
Brooklyn, USA aged 13-18 with mentors from 18-30 being exposed to
intercultural, innovative communication with each other through the
common language of Art Education
• Assistance provided
• Legal support with EDUCULT and infrastructure provided by Stadt
schulrat: Vienna Board of Education and Interkulturelle Zentrum
• Discussion based seminars in http://www.theresianumgasse10.at
Delivery
• Workshops with a diverse range of children to be held with artists in
interactive environment with stimulus provided by artists and
museums in Vienna including ZOOM museum. The workshops
allow contact and interaction between communities through art
raising awareness of diversity

Thinc Advocacy
• Enabling teenagers who are traditionally
the subjects of art and education to
become its co-creator
• Giving a voice to those who are too often
ignored or silenced
• Enabling participants to become
advocates for change
• Enabling participants to inform and affect
policy on local and international levels

Expect the unexpected

Unlocking creativity takes us further than we
ever could have imagined or expected with
prescribed outcomes

Proposed Implementation
_______________________________________________
Service
• Interactive Workshops (2-4 hours)
• Seminars for teachers and art educators with diversity
consultants and policy makers in Teresaniumgasse
• Workshops: 1 Artist or Art Educator per workshop
• Jessica White moderator/facilitator
• Workshops every week during the school terms and in
holidays they will be extended to all day workshops. In
Vienna workshops in collaboration with a variety of artists and
museums as well as in collaboration with Art Educators,
social entrepreneurs such as emersense
www.emersense.organd at spaces such as The Hub &
Schmiede.ca

Promotion
_______________________________________________
Promotion Delivery
• Existing promotion carried out with all stakeholders
• Currently have received many testimonials with
widespread acceptance & enthusiasm on both a local and
national level (available on request)
Administration
• If funds are to be placed with EDUCULT based in the
museum’s quarter they will provide a legal basis.

Workshops and Seminars
____________________________________________
Providing training in vocational art

projects through Innovative Art
Education practice
Exploring diverse heritage and identity
Intercultural dialogue
Cultural Diversity and fluidity of language

Thinc
(Phase 1: Feb 2011)
Phase 1: Third week of Feb-third week of July
Thinc heads innovative programs with a series of

workshops and seminars.
Expenses covered: Venue hire, seminar rooms.

Expenses to cover: artists fees, art education concepts
and materials, travel (cameras, printing materials,
costume) that will be developed by Jessica White with
Art educators, artists and teachers
For all details of expenditure, please see the attached
budget sheet

Thinc
(Phase 2: Sept – Feb 2012)
Phase 2: First week of Sept - First week in feb
As in phase one, phase two will be workshops and

seminars on a local and international scale with
students from different schools with the age
category 13-18 yrs with mentors/ art educators age
18-35

Projected Scenario
____________________________________________
F
It Starts With One

our connection to each other is as colourful as
we are
Courses have already started to be rolled out to children,
teenagers and adults in other part of Austria--Salzburg and
on more of an international scale and offered to students of
all ages. With the financial support of a variety of commercial
sponsors and non-for-profit/governmental donors.
Seminars
____________________________________________
Seminars will proceed in different locations depending on the

target groups in Vienna: http://www.theresianumgasse10.at
and http://vienna.the-hub.net/ & in Salzburg: www.schmiede.ca
so that teachers, art educators, artists and entrepreneurs can
share skills and resources. In the first month of Phase One
project there will be a launch, several workshops and a
seminar

Innovative Art Education Methods
Based on primary research of how art educators engage with

exhibitions and artefacts, continental European museums
focus on dialogue, discussion and debate, whereas UK
museums focus on craftwork. Therefore, an objective of
this project is to merge the two methods together
integrating both theory and practice for a praxis

ICP and Luksuz
The project is also linked in with ICP International Centre of

Photography at The Point in the Bronx, NYC and Luksuz
connection that is a group of Film and Media Literacy
projects for Young People across South Eastern Europe.

Projectguggenheim
We have the opportunity to collaborate with Hans

Guggenheim with his Projectguggenheim. He seeks to
provide high quality training in traditional skills for young
artists and artisans. Our programs aim to encourage
innovation because for traditions to survive they must
respond creatively to new cultural and economic
challenges in their environment.

Is Art Education just on the
side?
"Once the door is opened, they don't want to

leave," Ms. Austin said, adding, "I think because
photography is so fluid and so immediate — it's
reflecting back to them a sense of possibility in
their lives they haven't seen before."

Combining Theory with Practice
Working with a variety of artists for

creative interactive workshops

Thematic Connections
• Community
• Ritual
• Inclusion and exclusion
• Diversity
• Stereotypes
• Memory
• Photography
• Narrative/storytelling
• Identity
• Tradition
• History

Photography
Photo Elicitation and Photography workshop
Combining theory and practice

Illustration and Comic
Workshop
Animation / Comic Comic book workshop

Elicitation
Combining theory and practice

Writing Workshop
• Finding words and themes that fit locations creating sound-

scapes
• Reconstruction: To reveal history as a narrative and open to
change depending on who narrates it
• Context Switching: between historical periods
• Real letters: students write real letters to people in the past,
present and future
• Collaborative writing

Film and Writing
Writing workshops will lead into film workshops

So that students can understand how all these
mediums can be linked so they can empower
themselves
For their own future creative expression

Acting workshop
• Acting class raising children and youths´

confidence through a variety of styles
including drama, comedy acting for both
film and theatre
Music
In collaboration with members of Bauchklang-

Vocal Groove Project (this is an example there will other many
music workshops) students will experiment with their
voices around open spaces, working on
collaborative musical soundscapes

Acting/Movement
• Using movements, relationships between body, space, and

speed to help students to explore both their inner realms as
well as their outer inter-personal relationships socially.

Unlocking creativity is our bridge between
what has been, what is and what will be

Pilot workshop Feb - June `08
in relation to
Dress, Costume and Identity
The aim of this

workshop was for
students to see
themselves in relation
to identities
constructed in the
history of art of both
women and women
and in relation to
men.

Unlocking creativity brings our core values
to the surface

Balkan
Workshops With Adults

Evaluation
Instead of using a method of

assessment that focuses on
goals, targets, exams and
grades in isolation, the art
education methods engages
students at both a creative and
analytical level

Self and Peer Evaluation
Learning Logs: Focus on
workshops activities and
does not include
comments about
personal matters.
Personal journals: Students

write whatever they wish.
Students record events in
their lives, explore ideas,
questions, fears,
concerns and other
thoughts

Improving English Language
with
Personal Language Portfolios
Competences will be evaluated by students, teachers,

artists and art educators through art and language
portfolios developed by Jessica White and continuous
self, peer and mentor evaluation

Tangible outcomes online
_______________________________________________
All materials will be available in an online database to

which participants will have access. The curriculum will
also feature extensive online components at Maptales
(http://www.maptales.com), which will help facilitate the
creation of online communities around the topics
discussed.

Online Documentation of Projects
Facebook
mediadot.at/thinc
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=912&id=100000214743145
Blogger
http://jtamsin.blogspot.com/
YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/user/jtamsin
Schmiede.ca
http://bit.ly/d88QqP
Earth Charter
http://bit.ly/9SV9Wd
Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/97282441@N00/
Tangible Outcomes
Exhibitions in Vienna, East and South East Europe

and NYC supported by the Austrian Cultural
Forum

Das Projekt
V.I.A. will sich vor Allem der
Problematik der eigenen Identität, der
Verschiedenheit und dem
gegenseitigen Verständnis widmen um
Vorurteile zu umgehen und einen
neuen Blickwinkel zu schaffen. Um
dies zu erreichen bedient sich Thinc.
der Methode der Intercultural Art
Education.

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Thinc

Jessica Kennedy White, BA (hons) M.Sc Wolfson, University of

Thursday, 9 December 2010

Thinc is an Intercultural art education project

Thursday, 9 December 2010

Thursday, 9 December 2010

Thursday, 9 December 2010

Thursday, 9 December 2010

Thursday, 9 December 2010

Thursday, 9 December 2010

Thinc by accepting diversity and by advocating that the

Thursday, 9 December 2010

Thursday, 9 December 2010

intention + awareness + action + resources + network = sustainability

our actions not just of

Thursday, 9 December 2010

Thursday, 9 December 2010

Thursday, 9 December 2010

Thursday, 9 December 2010

Thursday, 9 December 2010

Thursday, 9 December 2010

Thursday, 9 December 2010

Thursday, 9 December 2010

Providing training in vocational art

Thursday, 9 December 2010

Phase 1: Third week of Feb-third week of July

Thinc heads innovative programs with a series of

Expenses covered: Venue hire, seminar rooms.

Thursday, 9 December 2010

As in phase one, phase two will be workshops and

Thursday, 9 December 2010

It Starts With One

Seminars will proceed in different locations depending on the

Thursday, 9 December 2010

Based on primary research of how art educators engage with

Thursday, 9 December 2010

The project is also linked in with ICP International Centre of

Thursday, 9 December 2010

We have the opportunity to collaborate with Hans

Thursday, 9 December 2010

"Once the door is opened, they don't want to

Thursday, 9 December 2010

Working with a variety of artists for

Thursday, 9 December 2010

Thursday, 9 December 2010

Photo Elicitation and Photography workshop

Combining theory and practice

Thursday, 9 December 2010

Animation / Comic Comic book workshop

Thursday, 9 December 2010

• Finding words and themes that fit locations creating sound-

Thursday, 9 December 2010

Writing workshops will lead into film workshops

Thursday, 9 December 2010

• Acting class raising children and youths´

In collaboration with members of Bauchklang-

Thursday, 9 December 2010

• Using movements, relationships between body, space, and

Thursday, 9 December 2010