Artistic European youth involved in the LEADER project "Artistic Roundabout Route"
 
17th - 28 August 2010 in the district of Steinfurt - Ibbenbüren Rheine and usual decentralized project places on the LEADER ART ROTARY RIDE

Guest Groups

1. NGO KAJA Minsk / Belarus: five young people 17-18 + 1 leader
2.Demmin (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern):  partner group of the district Steinfurt / 4 students of the Goethe-Gymnasium
3.Telsiai (Lithuania): partner district of the district  Steinfurt, two youngsters from art school and                                  4. Poland ( possible ) :  Suprasl and Jastrzebie-Zdroj, Poland's twin city of Ibbenbüren                                                5. Slovakia (possible): Prievidza, Twin Town of Ibbenbüren / 2 youngsters of art school

Central meeting place: School centre Dörenthe / Ibbenbüren
a big gym- hall incl. showers + meeting house ( of the firebrigade)  incl. kitchen. If the participants want , we can install tents in the Gym hall or create own separate sleeping places with canvas walls. Own sleeping backs needed ! 

Summary of the project "European Spaces"

- project for the design of art in public spaces.

As support of the project "Art roundabout route" under the European LEADER program will KAJA West e.V. integrate in addition to 25 already artistically designed roundabouts other "art-roundabout into a tourist route and loads where young people from Poland, Belarus and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the Kreis Steinfurt one,

    * Auszugestalten already developed projects, eg "United Hands": Installation of the roundabout Ledderstr. Ibbenbüren
    * In "conquered" project rooms to enter, "", eg : Gegenwerk-Schierloh storm: "Young people a fortress II
    * Or an entirely new project for the vacancy / formless roundabouts the "art circle - Route", eg Tecklenburg in to put on the legs.

In the two-week meeting is to be developed in various creative workshops thematic designs and models. It will be created so-called participation projects that open up a diverse and equal participation of all young people from all partner countries. After their presentation, exhibition and assessment projects to be realisierungsfähiger hingesteuert to a 1:1 implementation in a subsequent meeting in the summer of 2011. Here, the training center in the Kreishandwerkerschaft Ibbenbüren will initially take over the metal work for the "European Hands" - project.



PROJECT HORIZON

Embedded in the EU - Support for rural development LEADER we want to start with the emerging weakness in the integration of diverse social groups and allow for the participation not been activated, (deprived) social groups in the LEADER process. And so in the LEADER project, which is the only 'art lists "in the title and most likely for the creative appropriation by children / adolescents and migrant groups offering: the so-called" ART ROTARY RIDE ".

Unique been artistically designed and re-creating roundabouts are to be combined into one overall project of a "social sculpture" which is due to the commitment of private groups, societies, citizens' groups and associations. This participation framework will default artist - intercultural and international encounters of groups designed and set visible sign of the diversity of engagement for the public space in different sub-projects, in the. That "diversity" can mean quite subversive, is described below.

Objectives

artistic participation projects / volunteers working together to meet the public welfare-oriented social purposes:

• Young people from more (Poland / Germany) or less (Belarus) democratically governed countries on the example and model of public art closer to the practices of democratic participation in a civil society and making it that participation in art as a model for social and political participation can work.

• testing the community-creating the function of art as a form of intercultural encounter. Teen in creative and creative processes of an "encounter in making" together, ie concretely designs and models for the design of participatory sculptures, such as "Art Tops"

Project activities - EUROPEAN SPACES work:

0: start workshops

0 1: "national / regional presentation boards" One-day kick-off workshop: the participants do not come with empty hands! The collected during the preparatory period documentation for the representation of one's own country / own European region with emphasis on youth culture and art as well, centrifugal art "is collected in the collage technique of presentation board 1 meter x 1 meter. The idea of participating groups on the first night of the meeting serve the plates to visualize the group presentation. The 1 x 1 meter presentations are also something of an "index" and refer to program points of the "national evenings".

0 2: "to see" - I-you-you-me-me-you-you-tell me what a kind of artistic Kennnenlernspiel for the first Encounter. Allocated by lottery partners sit opposite each other and communicate in two ways, verbal and nonverbal: analog, on paper with a pencil. The partners are asked to draw each other and fill the background with additional sketches or text passages to what sent them her partner verbally. This material is the "Remix" and can be used later with photos and videos are fused.

0 3: Steinfurt, Ibbenbüren and / or pencil by Rheine "

On the first day of initiating joint project: Analog, ie, with pencil and Aquarellfärben / - brush-run journal that individual impressions of the celebrations, excursions and for meeting the participants with land and people in sketches and watercolors holds.

 

I: Design Workshops - Designs and Models

1 A: open, not to the art gyro-bound route concepts

1 A 1: EUROPEAN ISLANDS. Building on the title of the Vorbegegnungen awakened associations with the title should first of all can be worked artistically in the kick-off workshop, without focusing the view of "traffic island" in complete freedom. Even then, the participants are not forced to tailor their artistic "point solutions" to "Art in the roundabout. You can design that is also a European island for the Aasee in Ibbenbüren. On the other hand, it is also attractive to the conventional associations "= island oasis of peace and tranquility"-a take on a literally figurative, typical tourists and their attributes Performing sculptures - at the traffic island (de-placed).

1 B: Projects for free roundabouts in all home sites of partner

That makes the participation of the youth of Europe only as a "total package" to the end of the project, from design and model buildings up to Handanlegen in the realization of meaning, is from the beginning to an implementation, in stages, in the years 2010 - 2011 and be used also in the hometowns of the partners towards

The following suggestions from all partners.

1 B 1: EDU ART, Suprasl / Poland: "ESPERANTO ICELAND: Bialystok has always been a multicultural city with migrants: Belorussians, Jews, Lithuanians, Germans, Russians, Ukrainians, Romanies, Muslims, Tatars lived together with Poles. It is this melting pot character of the place that was one of the reasons for Ludwik Zamenhof beginning his work on creating the universal world language - Esperanto.So "Esperanto" could be a method to remix a new artificial language by using word elements from many languages. Because they have their origin in Western (German / English / Latin) and Eastern European Slavic languages, we should detect key words, which express our language, our thinking, our points of view and build a sculpture using these REMIX - material. But maybe we own crate, new Esperanto language to be translated into a visible sign of "diversity, that unites us"

1B 2: NGO KAJA - Minsk / Belarus: "EUROPEAN SPACES IN BELARUS ': ?????????????????????????????


1 B 3: West e.V. KAJA / Germany

1B 3.1. : Kreis Steinfurt: from the young people KAJA West eV, two proposals were developed:

 1 B 3 1.1: The design KREISEL MYTHS draws its themes and motifs from the treasury of the local / regional stories, legends and myths, will be implemented with local original clubs in cooperation. Example: "Kitchen Witches" (Tecklenburg) for a space on the art circle route. Accordingly, the foreign partner to arrive with their own stories and themes to meet. Means that even in the combination of fairy tale motifs from several countries, the project will develop diverse and mysterious.

 1 B 3 1.2: BIKE CENTRIFUGAL This is a "subversive" ideas against the traffic, for only one of cyclists to use the roundabout at the intersection of bicycle lanes in Muenster. The project could be an artistic appeal for the slowdown, deceleration, and gets his bicycle tourists to get off your bike and may exercise the detailed design.

Alternatively, a motor vehicle - traffic circle from old bicycles, which will encourage drivers to leave the car and use the bike.

1.B 3.2. Kreis Demmin: the partners of the Goethe-Gymnasium focuses its their proposals have already on the design of the "Schierloh gyro" in Ibbenbüren (further below point 1 C 2)

1 C art circle - remakes - Opportunities in already developed projects

1st C 1 European Hands: "Polish / Belorussian / West German / East German Hand /"

According to the Romanian by the art students Szilard Banga in the course of the EUROPEAN ISLANDS I youth in the summer of 2008, the proposed project would take account of the Ledder-Str in Ibbenbüren provided object twelve o'clock, designed by different partners in twelve European countries, national / regional hands on a European work of art. For each 50 mm round tube welded to a frame structure, which then can be used in a variety of individual contributions knotted ".                                                         

European Hands in the east of Ibbenbüren.

In the graphic / color design will be referred to with quotes on their own (youth) cultural context. May bring about 100 young people from 12 European countries, a sign of great diversity of European youth culture. Using some already finished execution plans, the city has asked the static Ibbenbüren example calculated on the basis of the "Turkish hand".

 As part of the exchange project "EUROPEAN SPACES", four more "hands" designed and presented in the model 1:10. Thanks to the embedding in the LEADER project and co-financing through the city Ibbenbüren amount of 5,000 € 5,000 €, and other donations to the savings bank (an initiative of Mayor H. Steingröver) 20,000 € are available for implementation from autumn 2010. And because of the charged by the training of Kreishandwerkerschaft Steinfurt be introduced and recognized as Leader of labor to produce the steel structures for the HANDS - part worth 5,000 € can be ensured due to the LEADER - Kofinzierung of 50% of a total financing of 30.000 €.

For example, "Turkish hand"

1 C 2 "Fortress" / Ibbenbüren Schierloh

The design of the gyroscope by means of a sandstone - Massif is a service of the construction office of the district of Steinfurt. The critical European view of art students from Eastern Europe in the summer of 2009 were in line with our youth EUROPEAN ISLANDS II in the cultural memory Ibbenbüren a guest is the district administrator of the district, Mr cubes village divided. Under the LEADER Networking Forum in November 2009 had KAJA the LEADER Project ART ROTARY RIDE presented and Lord Chief Administrative Officer then given the opportunity to assist with an exclamation point, the painting action to engage young people in the art gyro LEADER - project. The impetus of Mr. District to transform the "fortress" was recorded by KAJA West e. V. and the idea of a joint project of youth and young artists from the partnership contexts linked to the city and the county Ibbenbüren Steinfurt. On the plateau is, as a contrast to the sandstone - bulwark, one European - colorful object are placed.

"The Fortress" - to the west of Ibbenbüren

"Art Tree" campaign with the rural youth

Two offers for the meeting - agenda :

1st: Continuimg "Gegenwerk I": The art tree still looks a bit light and could still grow a lot stronger! And since the inter alia Follow-up project "Gegenwerk Schierloh II" can be realized only from the summer of 2011, will be built on the art tree further. Here are other elements in the shaping 1:1 - Scale in joint work by the Group to manufacture and - we hope - with the help of the rural youth on the plateau in the art tree structure to integrate.

2nd Gegenwerk Schierloh II: the follow-up project on the Schierloh gyro should be designed as a joint project of young people from the partnership context of the district Steinfurt incl London - Ealing. There concern is to jointly develop ideas and models for a participatory project. The partners from Lithuania and Demmin (Goethe-Gymnasium) have already developed many of the proposals and want to develop together with young people from the district of Steinfurt.

4 corners, 4 partners: start together from the corner and join in the middle!