Students learn about agroforestry & regenerative agriculture through a kitchen garden project. Planting edible plants using permaculture principles, creating a sensory garden, & addressing climate change through the student-run Eco Patrol. The school garden teaches cooperation, inclusion, and promotes sustainable development, essentially reconnecting children to nature.
What can be better than spending a hot summer day on a lake? Only doing so with friends, helping ecologists and urban planners to reimagine our cities! In “Water Rangers Twente” (The Netherlands), children from Ukraine learn about planetary health, collect data, and solve a challenge — designing an inclusive, healthy, attractive urban blue place. The initiative uniquely combines nature, science, art and technology, and contributes to children’s well-being. It includes them in the public
Kozani Goes Green is an environmental educational program aiming to raise awareness and bring a change of perspective towards nature & its protection. The project’s main goal is to promote environmental ethics; understanding humans' moral obligations to protect & preserve the environment is the key towards sustainable living & development. Our project is in line with the selection of Kozani as one of the cities to participate in the EU Mission for 100 climate-neutral & smart cities by 2030.
Zambujal 360 will be the first Public Housing Neighbourhood Ambassador of the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.
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.
