In living memory : an education and creation process with European archives Erasmus Project

Project Title

In living memory : an education and creation process with European archives

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships addressing more than one field

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Inclusion – equity; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

This project gathered 4 non-formal artistic education operators (Lieux Fictifs, TransFORMAS, coopérativa sociale e.s.t.i.a. , PhotoART Centrum), a University (Westerdals) and 3 archives holder structures (INA, Fondazione Cineteca Italiana, IMMR-CIMIR) and has been the extension of exchanges developed for several years between the partners. It was aimed at implementing an innovative creative and learning process, based on the creation of shared artworks between inmates and free learners, using archive footages from different countries, encouraging the development on an intercultural dialogue between these learners from different ages, cultures and social backgrounds.

The objectives of the project were:
– to stimulate the will to learn for learners with difficulties of inclusion, to enable them to acquire basic, transversal and digital skills, thanks to the creation work around archive, by proposing an innovative educational process based on the creation of artworks using archives,
– to build an intercultural and European dialogue that will convey openness and social cohesion, by mixing inmates and free learners from different generations, cultures and social backgrounds,
– to enable trainers and teachers to experiment new learning methodologies around archive image and footage, to strengthen them thanks to the accompaniment of the archivists, and to benefit from an exchange of good practices.
– to favour cooperations between non-formal and formal education actors, by mixing adult learners and students, to improve the learning offer, and imagine links for adult learners between their non-formal education path with perspectives of validating these acquisitions in the formal education
– to encourage innovative learning devices structured at local level, gathering non-formal education actors, universities and cultural organizations, but also associated partners such as penitentiary administrations and local authorities, to stimulate the acknowledgement of non-formal education process’ impacts on learners, especially on inmates.

Project activities:
– non-formal artistic education process developed with inmate and free adult learners, and the students of the partner or associated universities, around the creation of multidisciplinary artworks using archive images. Some common work sessions between inmate and free learners took place inside the prisons,
– transnational learning and training activities, that allowed trainers/teachers to experiment learning methodologies around archives with different European learners, and to exchange them with their counterparts. These activities helped capitalizing the added value represented by the intercultural dimension: trainers/teachers were the intermediaries between learners in the different countries that cannot move,
– from these experimentations, trainers/teachers produced an innovative methodological guide presenting the learning methodologies using archives as a creative and educational material. Two training pilote courses have been created by trainers/teachers to enable multiplying such kinds of learning projects using archives in Europe. A common evaluation tool from the project impacts on learners has been produced, with the making of an interactive illustrated “Mind Map”, to be shared with other stakeholders,
– an important dissemination process has been implemeted to disseminate project’s results and encourage professionals to exploite them: 3 events took place, a website and specific project accounts have been created on several social media, and a networking action has been done at local, national and European level.

Project’s results are the creation of 3 artworks using archives, a methodological guide/ book, 2 training courses, a “Mind Map” from the project impacts on learners, a project website.
Project’s impacts:
– acquisition of basic, transversal and digital skills, open-minededness, and strengthening self-confidence for learners,
– participation to an intercultural dialogue process, making the sense for a European citizenship and culture more concrete for all participants
– improvement of trainers practices and skills
– improvement of educational offer with the dissemination of the 3 intellectueal outputs
– the awareness of local institutional partners to the importance of non-formal education project using the artistic medium and the archives, memory one.
– to favour local structured partnerships between non-formal and formal education sectors, to consider links for learners between these 2 sectors.

185 learners were involved in this project: inmates, students, free adult learners (persons in insertion process, long-term unemployed people, amateurs and seniors)
(Details: France: 62/ Spain: 41/ Italia: 18/ Slovakia: 36/ Norway: 28.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 291821 Eur

Project Coordinator

LIEUX FICTIFS & Country: FR

Project Partners

• e.s.t.i.a. società cooperativa sociale onlus
• INA
• PhotoART Centrum
• transFORMAS, artes escénicas y transformación
• FONDAZIONE CINETECA ITALIANA
• Institut Municipal de Museus de Reus
• WESTERDALS HOYSKOLE – OSLO SCHOOL OF ARTS, COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY AS