Escola Básica e Secundária de Cristelo

To celebrate the Erasmus Days 2024 Ag. Escolas de Cristelo has organized together with Casa da Imagem and LABA Valencia an international workshop that brings together artists, teachers and secondary school students. This workshop is dedicated to the exploration of how the fields of arts and design can effectively engage young individuals in the pursuit of sustainability. The workshop proposes slowing down and strolling through the city, defining a mental path in the confrontation of reference images – street names, signs, façades, neons, people, trees and memories – and realising how present climatic emergencies are in our daily lives: a tree that has been cut down, a lawn that has turned into tarmac, a bin overflowing with rubbish, a street overflowing with cars. Or a weed between two parallels, a bird singing on a high-voltage pole, the wind whistling through a solitary tree. The challenge of this workshop is for each student, by mapping the city and identifying their daily routes, to reflect on the impact of the climate emergency and unsustainable daily habits on their collective lives. Overlaying the mapping of the whole class will graphically result in a new collective map of the city, where intervention zones can be located – in other words, areas that, in a collective effort, can be improved for a lower environmental impact. From here, short collective videos will be produced using moving images, sounds and short RAPs, which concretise these mappings and assimilate elements of the climatic emergency of reference for these routes.