FLOTATION SCHOOL

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Description

Common Dreams:flotation school was the first edition in 2018

The intention is to propose a mobile prototype for a survival climate school, that can travel and adapt to other cities in collaborative alliances with local universities, art institutions and sustainable organizations.
Structure:
The school is designed around a collective process in accordance to the four elements (air-water-earth-fire), as an attempt to rethink our notions of survival in relation to geopolitical earthly resources.
Fields:
The approach is a transdiciplinare collaborative process in dialogue with art students and/ or with experts from the fields of political ecology, sustainability, economy, agriculture, holism, activism, science and architecture.
Method:
As a methodology, we propose a critical reflection on what “ pedagogy in arts” means today and can do for us, and how this approach can influence the climate political emergency.
The main topics are : education- ecology-shelter- sustainability-social-economy- resources- cosmologies
Outcome:
Every edition of the school has different format depending on the location and collaboration, it can take be in the format of a floating raft on the lake, or a tend in the forest, or it simply an interventions in public space or lecture and debates.

PRESENTATIONS:

2020

Fourth edition (2020-21) Co-produced by CIFAS, Brussels / production Wpzimmer
Third edition (2020-21) Co-produced by far° festival des arts vivants Nyon and HEAD – Genève / production HIROS

2019

Second edition (2019) Co-produced by Contour Biennale 9, "Coltan as Cotton”, Straathoekwerk Mechelen and Klimaatneutraal Mechelen and in collaboration with Piraten van de Dijle, Mechelen

2017/18

First edition (2017-18) Co-produced by Kunstencentrum Vooruit, City of Gent, Kask School of Arts, MEDS Network- "urban haven", Gent

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Credits

Contribution and co- creation between 2017- 2020
founder and artistic coordinator: Maria Lucia Cruz Correia
Workshop- "Climate grief": Evanne Nowak
Workshop- "Building an island": Mark Pozlep
Workshop -" Crafting at Dusk": Ingrid Vranken
Sound Piece: Dramaturgy/text: Tineke de meyer / Sound artist: Duncan Speakman
Collaborator @ 2018: Nathalie Snauwaert
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First Island designed by Elise Mensaert (KASK university)/Construction and activation by MEDS Network- "urban haven": Mia Martinovic, Marek Svoboda, Tastani Felisia, Sally Al-Ejeilat, Giancarlo Muñoz, Alex Curtis, Rossella Natale, Barbalat Cristina, Joanna Wirkus, Kamila Haja, Esra Oner, Almila Ovali, Steven Alejandro Whitehouse
Gent Local collaborators: KASK, DOK, Jonge Dokken, Buurderij, Thuishaven, Dokano, Noah, Boot