{"id":17648,"date":"2021-06-30T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T12:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wannseeforum.de\/?p=17648"},"modified":"2025-08-06T18:01:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T16:01:31","slug":"was-tun","status":"publish","type":"seminare","link":"https:\/\/wannseeforum.de\/en\/seminare\/was-tun\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201e"What to Do?! \u2013 Living FREEDOM and SUSTAINABILITY" \u2013 International Hybrid Project Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What do such broad concepts as freedom and sustainability mean to young people living in vastly different places in a globalized world? In 2021, the pandemic restricted the freedom to implement a joint project on these topics in person, which would have involved working and staying at the wannseeFORUM as originally planned. However, digital tools and skills enabled a relatively quick transition to the digital realm for a pilot project that combined political education with intercultural education, language learning, and action-oriented media work. This was made possible through cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Berlin and the collaboration of all three departments of the wannseeFORUM Foundation: Political Education, Cultural Education, and New Media.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In January 2021, as a pilot project, 28 young people from Berlin and 34 scholarship recipients from around the world from the Goethe-Institut's "Schools: Partners for the Future" (PASCH) initiative met in a hybrid international project workshop. During the day, the Berlin youths worked in parallel workshops on rap, film, painting, stop-motion animation, and music at the wannseeFORUM with 14- to 17-year-olds from Indonesia, Mongolia, Thailand, South Korea, Latvia, Sri Lanka, Georgia, Ukraine, and Pakistan at their respective locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both groups got to know each other virtually over two afternoons a week before the seminar began. This allowed them to show each other their schools and places of residence. In the project workshop from May 25th to 29th, 2022, the participants intensified their collaboration: In mixed groups, they explored the theme of freedom and sustainability using media and artistic methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A particular challenge for the young people from Berlin was, among other things, to introduce the German language to their international fellow competitors through intensive verbal exchange, thereby supporting and motivating them in learning German.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Due to the time difference, the young people from all over the world participated in the program each afternoon. In five parallel workshops, led by professional media producers and artists, they exchanged ideas and media-related perspectives on the topic, created collages, films, music, models, produced media, and rapped on a wide variety of aspects and ideas of freedom and sustainability \u2013 and, each in their own location, developed media products that reflect their current life situation and their experiences related to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They contributed their personal perspectives and their respective culturally shaped viewpoints. They learned about "international and global perspectives and answers" to major future issues. Despite technical challenges, excellent collaboration was achieved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participants were encouraged to explore ways to contribute to sustainable development through their own actions. Working in internationally composed teams, they independently develop projects on sustainability and freedom-related topics of their choice. In doing so, they learn about international\/global perspectives and answers to major future challenges. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does freedom mean to you?<\/strong>
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An example from the video workshop visualizes freedom, internationality, and sustainability in a very poetic way in 7:01 minutes: a paper airplane, carried by the wind, flies through the world from person to person, from place to place, and from video image to video image, capturing the young people's perspectives on freedom:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201e"What does freedom mean to you?"\u201c<\/a>Freedom means to me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n