Magical images
that can walk (no)
About
This film explores a creative workshop where children and adults delved into the aesthetics and science of water through participatory activities like painting, drawing, and dialogue. Aimed at early childhood educators, it illustrates the integration of artistic expression in understanding the water cycle within a collaborative educational setting. Part of the EX-PED-LAB project, the film highlights how such workshops enhance kindergarten education while promoting children’s rights to clean water and quality learning. Produced by the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, the film underscores the importance of stimulating environments in early education alongside collaborative research efforts.
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Director Biography
Filmmaker, cinematographer, and video editor, he holds a permanent position as a consultant at Medielab, the Division of Academic Development at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL).
His documentary «Ocean Portrait» – produced by both Medielab and KINDknow – was awarded as Best Educational Concept Where Film Is Used at the Tromsø Educational Film Festival 2024.
His latest feature, «In the Penal Colony» co-directed with three other directors, was awarded at La Semaine de la Critique at the Locarno Film
Pedagogical value
This film demonstrates, on a pedagogical level, how children and adults explored the water, waterscape and water cycle through a creative workshop. Learning about the water cycle, the understanding of the connection of natural phenomenon, implies imagining how the sun’s heat causes water to dissolve from streams, lakes, rivers, and oceans, how the water vapor rises and when it reaches cooler air, it condenses to form clouds, which, full of water, they release some of the water as rain. However, in this workshop, the aesthetic aspects of water and waterscapes was emphasized. Children were given aesthetic awareness to a river stream, starting out with sensory experiences and children’s drive to move, play, explore and create. The creative workshop included painting, drawing, dialogues, digital transformation and displaying images. On an educational level the workshop was designed for children to sense, move, explore, create, express and learn. The film targets early childhood educators and teacher education students and is part of the Research Council project: Sustainable design in kindergarten sector through ‘Exploration and Pedagogical Innovation Laboratory’ [EX-PED-LAB], where workshops as a educational methodology is explored and researched. The workshops functions as a space for cocreation, where people meet (children, adults, or stakeholders and professional expertise for the purpose of exploration, education or designing pedagogical practices). The intent of the workshop show cased in this film was twofold: (1) to support early childhood educational leaders and staff in enhancing the quality of kindergartens in close collaboration with researchers and (2) to more particular show how educators can work with the aesthetic aspects of understanding where the water comes from and what water means, the knowledge of the water cycle.
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