This project was triggered by the Corona virus world crisis in response to social distance instruction, encouraging social decentralisation and increasing the demand to move out of the city. Out of the belief that climate change is still the major challenge we are facing (humans and nature), we wish to promote relevant, realistic subjects in the daily urban plan discussion and bring interdisciplinary voices into the architectural fields.
The learning techniques currently included in the educational curriculum in Kosovo do not always magically or safely lead to success.
Practice in schools and the decision to make schools as eco-friendly as possible aims at: ensuring and highest performance of teaching, the further acquisition of theoretical knowledge, skills and practical habits and norms of ethics and behavior, the development of capacities in communication between teachers, students and others.
I initiated and coordinated the project "Be Green. Think Green. Act Green.", choosing this name out of a desire to make as many students as possible aware of the importance of protecting the environment and to be, think and act as green as possible. We wanted to be the voice of change in our society. We looked around and saw the gaps in our community. So we decided to tackle a topical issue, namely excessive nature pollution.
Silk scarves printed ecologically according to an original design are a kind of art and a message for the community. The graphics show three themes:
1. Empathy
2. The power ofLove
3. The World is Yours
Through art, scarves are a message for humanity to remember about these values. When they become a commercial project, 10% of the sales will be donated to the Foundation supporting sustainable development activities.
Original silk scarves are a turn towards sustainable fashion and theLOHAS
The Artists to Schools is aimed at developing creativity and active participation of children in primary schools. Its main idea is the involvement of contemporary artists in art education, as well as long-term collaboration with individual teachers, children and local communities. The project is intended for children at the first and second grade of primary schools in the Czech Republic.
It is a teaching innovation program that, interacting with citizens, produces ephemeral spatial constructions in urban environment.
Street installations cause, through occupation of public space, reflection on contemporary issues of social, environmental and urban interest. Reflection occurs at the moment of its conceptualization by the students and during its public exhibition in the city. By building these scenarios, academic objectives are achieved while knowledge is transferred to citizens.
The ENTREPRENEURSHIP NATURE-WISE course comprises 4 topic-based, innovative, intensive workshops that focus on the core skills required to communicate efficiently and confidently in a variety of professional business contexts related to nature. Emphasis is placed on inclusion, as students from different classes and abilities will be working together, as well as natural surroundings, as visits will be conducted to businesses that are related to nature and products derived from it.
Urban Trajectories is an integrated project that aims to promote the social growth and educational well-being of boys and girls between 11 and 17 years old by involving the educating communities of different neighborhoods arranged on two axes of the city of Palermo. The project proposes a model of educational, cultural and sports offerings built with and for the young people who benefit from them, mainly in extracurricular settings, but building generative alliances with schools in the area.
This project aims to transform the education process. It is designed to became an educational natural ecosystem, which promotes a culture of health and well-being, a culture of democratic and participative citizenship and a culture of sustainable and ecologic regeneration. This educational ecosystem is designed to promote a set of essential skills for the sustainable development of human societies. A local project with a global thinking.
Right in the middle of the city, where we need to rediscover nature the most, the Solar House is a laboratory to reconnect with the rythm of nature. A slower, deeper, kinder way of inhabiting the house, the neighborhood, the city, the world.
