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Tímea Pók

2.45 BLOSSOM PROJECT at DOCUMENTA15_KASSEL – Art Education for Social Sensitization (Paper) – virtual



Tímea Pók – Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary - virtual



Abstract:


We joined the documenta15 international educational event at the invitation of Susanne Hesse-Badibanga, director of Documenta15 Camp in Kassel. I developed a complex visual education project focusing on social sensitization, matching the main theme of the art exhibition, social togetherness. I incorporated sustainability, solidarity communities and the conceptualisation of the school of the future in my art education program. I developed a creative process in which my adolescent students created artworks together with socially challenged, vulnerable children from a foster home. In the spring of 2022, 17-year-old students of Szent László Secondary School in Budapest started a collaborative project with these disadvantaged students (aged 7–10 years) of Wesley János Primary School. While the students tried to explore the children’s aspirations, they often left their comfort zone. The process can be described as inner growth. In the Blossom Project, my pre-career students were the gardeners to care about flowers. Everything in the process was driven by the desires and imagination of the primary schoolchildren, who experienced that their choices were important. While the adolescents visualised the children’s dreams about their future, they responsibly examined their own future perspectives and potentials. The process culminated in Kassel in autumn 2022 with the artworks and six 17-year-old art and media students. Luca Pataki, a former student, helped implement the project from the viewpoint of a contemporary visual artist. At the documenta Camp our students encountered many unexpected situations a street happening and different performative acts. The biggest benefit of the project is the internal change that the creative process initiated in the souls of my students.

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