TEAM
Magdalena Meißner, Chiara Cunoci
PARTNERS
Intercultural Kitchen Burg Halle (Our "recipe for a collective dream place" will be embedded into the Intercultural Kitchen website along with photos of the workshops we hostet. We will organize a workshop for the new incoming International and Erasmus students (together with them and their assigned buddies) in the end of March 2024. The workshop series project is open to be handed over to students from SI who are interesed to follow up on the format!)
YEAR
2023-24
ABTRACT
Within the broad theme of „Weltoffene Hochschule?“, we have explored ideas to include new, international and Erasmus students better into the student network. We recognized that there is still space for improvement in promoting values like inclusivity and equality on campus. For us, fighting for structural change also means to implement spaces to come together on a personal level. Taking inspiration from the existing "Intercultural Kitchen" event format that focuses on intercultural topics on campus, we developed a workshop series. These workshops provide an intimate environment for students to form new connections and friendships. Through activities like drawing, sewing, photography, writing, and sound recording, participants were encouraged to imagine their own personal and a collective dream place. Storytelling served as a poetic and playful practice to let participants share personal perspectives, thoughts and emotions. By creating a warm and relaxed atmosphere where it is possible to dream individually and as a temporary collective, we imagined utopias (worth fighting for) to cultivate a sense of community and to strengthen the bonds among BURG students. We believe BURG could need more formats like the one we have tested here. Accordingly, we would like to see the project to be continued. We wrote a recipe as a workshop instruction on how to organize events like this and joined the visible outcome of the workshops into a tablecloth.
Our "recipe for a collective dream place" will be embedded into the Intercultural Kitchen website along with photos of the workshops we hosted. We will organize a workshop for the new incoming International and Erasmus students (together with Intercultural Kitchen, new incoming International and Erasmus students and their assigned buddies) in the end of March 2024. The workshop series project is open to be handed over to students from SI who are interested to continue it.
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