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Sunday, July 15th, 2018The CASE summer school in Marathonas outside Athens, Greece (CASE = creativity arts and science in primary education). CASE conference in paradise. The CASE summer-school is based on the Greek coast of Marathonas. Talk about conferance-room with a view! First day is the international meeting and planning the week. A 20 minute introduction to eco-scenography […]
Global Hands On Ocean pilot
Friday, April 20th, 2018How do you combine the fields of science and arts, where both subjects are equal and contributive to the learning process? How do you get young people to embody new, scientific knowledge? How do you teach young people about the ocean and the arts, without art being “just a fun method” of learning? How do […]
The DNA workshop
Wednesday, January 10th, 2018Working with three colleagues from the University, we started a two-day WASO workshop on DNA at a high school today. Combining arts and science. So how do you make art around the DNA-theme? By using macramé of course! By tying a half-knot over and over, it twists around itself like a double spiral, just like […]
Open day at the workshop
Sunday, August 27th, 2017Saturday, we invited the public to an open house at the workshop. It was a social event, and lots of people stopped by. Everyone that came, had to drill a screw into the fish, as a symbolic participation and ownership in the project. Old and young! The kids also had the opportunity to make their […]
“wild” electricity
Thursday, August 24th, 2017Working with 7th-graders at a CREATIONS´ WASO-project. The theme is Electricity, and the students studied electricity in nature, untamed, and the traces it left. This inspired them to make their own versions, put together as the set for the little opera.
Art-guerilla in Bomlo supported by US
Thursday, August 10th, 2017Our art.beach-create.debris. -project in the local press, Bømlo Nytt:
Seaplastic, day 3
Monday, August 7th, 2017Visiting the western-most part of the island (Hiskjo), where we found some surprisingly clean beaches! Beach-combing for the hard-core! A beautiful sight: this cannister says: Don´t throw away! To be used by all of us for beach-cleaning. Back at the workshop, cleaning today´s findings. Catch of the day is the little seahorse 🙂 Elizabeth started […]
Sea-plastic art, day 2
Saturday, August 5th, 2017Well, we finished washing the trash today, at least what we have so far. And when Elizabeth started color-sorting the plastic, the beauty appears pretty much straight away. But we some really cool plans for this plastic. It is no longer waste. IT will become the coolest fish on this side of the Gulf-current! 😉 Photos […]
trashwashing
Thursday, August 3rd, 2017Today´s agenda: get ready for step two of the A.B.C.D.-project. This means getting all the collected ocean plastic to the workshop-garage, and wash it. The next month is going to be interesting! 🙂
Land art
Saturday, April 29th, 2017For the first time in almost exactly ten years, I am back at Bømlo Folk High School teaching. This time only for a day. A creative Saturday! Following an introduction to land-art and Andy Goldsworthy, the students split up into groups and utilized the entire area around the school. Two hours later we all went for […]
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