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We grow together with the nature

Collective intelligence + Smartphone App + Collaborative Cloud = Public Augmented Reality Audio Map

blind.wiki*EDU is a community-based smartphone project that invites Students who are blind or partially sighted to map their findings of their EHEA Campuses and cities.

By sharing geolocated audio recordings via the blind.wiki*EDU smartphone app, EHEA Students create a collective map of their surroundings with accessibility tips, storytelling posts, sensory impressions and soundscapes.

The planet needs new paradigms to re-evaluate a confused relationship between architecture and nature. Meeting Nature Halfway is an initiative by Studio Colletti, Department of Experimental Architecture, Innsbruck Austria, that engages architects, and the public, to think how buildings can be designed more intelligently – i.e., by implementing digital, computational, and robotic technologies – and how they can be made more intelligent – e.g., by rendering them more responsive to the environment.

Cēsis Youth and Children's Vote was a pilot-project taking place alongside Latvia's Parliamentary elections on October 1, 2022. Aimed at revitalizing civic engagement, by providing a platform for democracy and encouraging the younger generation of Cēsis to have a say in the development of their town, it boosted the voter turnout in the general elections. The Cēsis Municipality co-created the project with the Design Department of the Latvian Academy of Arts and the Central Election Commission.

Three floors with over 200 interactive exhibits that teach through fun and enjoyment. A huge concrete ball housing a planetarium which will present the cosmos and also underwater world. Educational rooms for memorable lessons. There is a stunning view of the River Odra and the city of Szczecin from the terrace on the roof. The building in the shape of a ship moored on river bank where all visitors will be most welcome to experience maritime and sea life. Maritime Science Center in Szczecin!

Schools Activate Resources (ScAR) is an experimental and innovative action delivered within the fragile context of the urban peripheries. This participatory process involved schools, universities, cultural institutions, administrations, and private actors in interpreting and enhancing the “hidden” cultural heritage in Milan’s fringe neighborhoods.

The Development House is a house for children, teenagers and adults. In its space, we organized painting and handicraft workshops, primary and high school. We have created a friendly place for families in home education. We located all this and many other activities in a house in the middle of Olsztyn. The real house. With garden. With dogs with proud names: Toast and Crisp. And somewhere on the outskirts of this house we also live. Because it's a real home.

The project BIOFABRIKA reflected a creative production in the form of experiments and in the context of reconnecting with nature, where completely new and sustainable material was used. The main purpose of biomaterials is to offer sustainable, creative and alternative solutions in order to preserve the environment. With an inclusive approach, experts with a local community were participating in 9 month long project and the first documentary film and catalogue was created about the activities.

METRO O1O is a graphic novel about important historical events that impacted how Rotterdam developed and made it what it is today. The story starts back in 1270, when the city was no more than a fishing village, and ends in 2050, with visions of what the future might bring. Rotterdam was not created in a single moment, by a single person, but was made over the centuries, by many. METRO O1O is an invitation for young people to get to know and explore the city. Again and again, day in, day out.

NA DIVJE is an activity for children in nature that takes place in all seasons and in all weather. The focus is on getting to know nature, free play, relaxed learning, acquiring skills and one’s own inner strength and friendship. NA DIVJE uses nature and offers children at a sensitive age, when they are receptive to the natural world and the people around them, an exit from the world between four walls into a world of trees, fertile soil, animal teachers and shelters of imagination.