Tuesday, 29 May 2012
Project
LABYRINTH OF CONFLICTS
Youth Exchange
Dates: 27 June – 3 July 2012 (9 days of project: 7 days of work + 2 travel days)
Arrival day: 26 June
Departure day: 4 July
Location: Corbi, jud. Argeș, ROMANIA
Corbi-GoogleMaps
Accommodation , food and travel to and from the project venue are covered for Romanian participants by the Youth in Action grant and Universitur cofunding.
http://www.pensiuneaxandra.ro/imprejurimi.php
PARTNERSHIP: 4 EU organisations
- ASSOCIAZIONE ARTEMIDE Italy
- BIDA e V “Kultur und Bildung” Germany
- BIVEDA NGO Bulgaria
- UNIVERSITUR Romania (host organization and coordinator)
Official project language: English
AGE OF THE PARTICIPANTS: 18-25
TARGET GROUP: active youngsters who are eager to work with nonformal education techniques in an intercultural environment, interested in art, culture, social issues and peer education. Participants have to be interested in the topics of the youth exchange and they have to be ready for 7 very intensive and stimulating working days.
SUMMARY OF THE PROJECT
As essential processes currently shaping Europe’s societies and cultures, migration phenomenon and intercultural conflicts represent the central issues of this multilateral youth exchange.
The project’s aim is to provide a multicultural environment for 24 youngsters from four different countries (Romania, Bulgaria, Italy and Germany), suitable for creating a context in which participants will be able to express, explore and develop their personal and cultural identities while also addressing specific conflicts, using labyrinth theatre as the main tool.
Labyrinth theatre is a form of participative art which used as a non-formal education tool along with other activities such as workshops, games, discussions, brainstorms, offers the possibility for participants to gain skills and competences. Moreover, they will be encouraged to critically analyze and discuss on topics such as youth participation, empowerment, active citizenship, thus increasing awareness of cultural diversity and national identity values, promoting peer education, intercultural dimension and learning by exchanging experiences.
THEMES: Social Inclusion. Art and culture.
THE CENTRAL THEME of the workshop is intercultural conflict as a result of the migration phenomenon, a prominent issue in current fast developing European societies. Focusing their work on this topic, participants will have the opportunity to explore and put into practice methods promoting active citizenship and social involvement, in a multicultural environment.
AIM
Encourage and empower young people to act on their role as active citizens of the European society by fostering social awareness and inclusion through participative arts.
Objectives:
Provide a multicultural environment in which 24 youngsters from four different countries (Romania, Bulgaria, Italy and Germany) will be able to express and develop their personal and cultural identities using labyrinth theatre as a main tool.
Raise awareness concerning key issues of today’s society (intercultural conflict and migration)
Promote active citizenship and social inclusion
Involve the local community from Corbi, Argeş (a village experiencing a dramatic decrease in population as an effect of migrations) in the final product of the project - a Labyrinth theater performance focused on social topics
Introduce Labyrinth theatre as a learning and participative tool.
METHODOLOGIES:
During the implementation of the project the working methods will be based on non-formal education, particularly focusing on discovery learning and participatory arts methods in order to empower the active involvement of participants.
Discovery learning takes place in problem solving situations where the learner draws on his own experience and prior knowledge and challenges participants to interact with their environment by exploring and manipulating objects, wrestling with questions and controversies or performing experiments. In this respect, the learning strategy will be based on:
games - which generate enthusiasm, healthy competition, interest, rules following, problem solving;
physical movement - body movement that gives energy and easiness;
dramatisation (acting) - performance based on improvisation and spontaneity;
drawing and painting - creative design to embody concepts in a visual or tactile manner;
reading - interacting with the written word;
discussions - verbalization of thoughts, questions or experience;
introspection - examination of one's own thoughts, impressions and feelings
The work and the exchange of technical knowledge will be encouraged and gained following a peer to peer approach: participants will have the opportunity to share life experiences and tools in an horizontal manner. This approach aims at guaranteeing a shared approach to the different contents and at empowering the participants' learning process.The decision to use art, in particular labyrinth theatre, is due to the fact that these disciplines are very linked with the basic principles of the peer education and will facilitate the transfer of the information and of the knowledge.
History
A History Of Conflicts(click me)
Conflict is the confrontation of powers.Power can be identive and assertive, altruistic and manipulative, coercive and physical.Social conflict is the struggle for agency or power in society. Social conflict or group conflict occurs when two or more actors oppose each other in social interaction,reciprocally exerting social power in an effort to obtain scarce or incompatible goals and prevent the opponent from obtaining them. It is a social relationship where the action is oriented intentionally for carrying out the individual own will against the resistance of other. Ethnocentrism.Negative attitude toward people of other races and ethnic groups- attitude resulted from evolutionary adaptations.
Conflict is the confrontation of powers.Power can be identive and assertive, altruistic and manipulative, coercive and physical.Social conflict is the struggle for agency or power in society. Social conflict or group conflict occurs when two or more actors oppose each other in social interaction,reciprocally exerting social power in an effort to obtain scarce or incompatible goals and prevent the opponent from obtaining them. It is a social relationship where the action is oriented intentionally for carrying out the individual own will against the resistance of other. Ethnocentrism.Negative attitude toward people of other races and ethnic groups- attitude resulted from evolutionary adaptations.
Soil Seeds
Conflict
(see com-) + fligere "to strike"
(see afflict). The noun also dates from early 15c.
Psychological sense of "incompatible urges in one person" is from 1859 .
Quotes:
Hilaire Belloc: "All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: "Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights."
Labyrinth
Etymology:
-c.1400, laberynthe (late 14c. in Latinate form laborintus) "labyrinth, maze," figuratively "bewildering arguments," from L. labyrinthus, from Gk. labyrinthos "maze, large building with intricate passages," especially the structure built by Daedelus to hold the Minotaur near Knossos in Crete, from a pre-Greek language; perhaps related to Lydian labrys "double-edged axe," symbol of royal power, which fits with the theory that the labyrinth was originally the royal Minoan palace on Crete and meant "palace of the double-axe." Used in English for "maze" early 15c., and in figurative sense of "confusing state of affairs" (1540s).
A name given to sundry structures composed of winding passages so intricate as to render it difficult to find the way out, and sometimes in. Of these structures the most remarkable were those of Egypt and of Crete. The Egyptian to the E. of Lake Moeris, consisted of an endless number of dark chambers, connected by a maze of passages into which it was difficult to find entrance; and the Cretan, built by Dædalus, at the instance of Minos, to imprison the Minotaur, out of which one who entered could not find his way out again unless by means of a skein of thread. It was by means of this, provided him by Ariadne, Perseus (q. v.) found his way out after slaying the Minotaur.
Translations for labyrinth:
Translations for labyrinth:
Afrikaans: doolhof Arabic: تيه، مَتاهَه Bulgarian: лабиринт
Brazilian: labirinto Czech: labyrint German: das Labyrinth
Danish: labyrint Greek: λαβύρινθος Spanish: laberinto
Estonian: labürint Farsi: مارپیچ Finnish: labyrintti
French: labyrinthe Hebrew: מָבוֹך Hindi: भूल भुलैया
Croatian: labirint Hungarian: labirintus Indonesian: labirin
Icelandic: völundarhús Italian: labirinto Japanese: 迷路
Korean: 미궁(迷宮) Lithuanian: labirintas Latvian: labirints
Malay: jalan yang berselirat Dutch: doolhof Norwegian: labyrint, irrgang
Polish: labirynt Persian: ،پر خميدگى و پيچ و Pashto: پيچ وتاو لرونكى،ګډوډ
Portuguese: labirinto Romanian: labirint Russian: лабиринт
Slovak: labyrint Slovenian: labirint Serbian: lavirint
Swedish: labyrint Thai: วงกต Turkish: labirent
Taiwanese: 迷宮 Ukrainian: лабіринт Urdu: بھول بھلیاں
Vietnamese: mê cung Chinese: 迷宫
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