FOR SCHOOLS

INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS FOR HIGH SCHOOLS

The Act On Your Future Foundation offers schools of the Geneva region an action of cultural mediation, whose aim is to organize interactive workshops and pedagogic presentations on the representation of human rights through photography. This project aims to raise awareness amongst students in relation to the issues addressed by the laureates of the Human Rights Photography Award. Throughout a photographic discourse, we wish that students develop an interest for, and a critical look at, the current societal challenges.

Development of the mediation action

There are three phases to the project (adapted to the requirements of schools) :

1. Presentation to the partner school (1 to 2 hours) :

Introduction to human rights : key concepts, actors and current issues ;
Presentation of the Act On Your Future Foundation and its activities
Presentation of the Human Rights Photography Award and the topics addressed by the laureates in order to grasp the curiosity of the students prior to their visit of the exhibition
Intervention by a member of the jury, a laureate of the award or a human rights actor

2. Interactive workshops at the Art Bärtschi & Cie gallery (3 to 4 hours) :

Visit of the collective exhibition
Presentation of the topic addressed by the award through art and photography
Composition of five groups and attribution of every group to one laureate exposed
Presentation from each group of the topic exposed by the laureate
The workshop will last 3 or 4 hours, with a maximum number of 20 students per session
Professors or accompanying persons are not obliged to take part in the workshop
These workshops are not strictly pertinent to art students only

3. Debriefing at the partner school :

Presentation of the different group projects to the other students of the school
Discussion on the addressed topics and on how young generations can get involved locally
Examples of local projects around the topic

WORKSHOPS 2015