How can city development enhance intercultural dialogue
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First Report
1. Title of project The city to live together"( How can city development enhance intercultural dialog)
2. Partner schools
School #1: Gymnasium №171 (Russia, Saint-Petersburg)
School #2: Gymnasium №2 Vereinsgasse 21-23(Austria, Vienna)
School #3: Kallio Upper Secondary School of Performing Arts (Finland, Helsinki)
3. Working language English
4. Participants: (all persons involved - students, teachers)
Russian part of the team: Teachers: Tamara Kibalnik, director
- Galina Zhirkova, teacher of culture, project coordinator
Students: Olga Rusinova, Varvara Frolova, Nadezhda Zvonova, Lala Shukurova, Igor Zhirkov, Laila Babakulova, Mary Kuzmina, Igor Gomzin, Andrey Kisselev,
Austrian part of the team:
Teachers: Elisabeth Wagner, teacher, project coordinator
Students: Michelle Strobl, Romana Strgacic, Cinar Oner
Finnish part of the team: Teachers:Kati Venemies, teacher, project coordinator
- Eva Kärnä-Koskinen, teacher
Students: Caitlin Baran, Volo Mykhalevych, Roosa Tikanoja, Santeri Räsänen
Project partners (other persons or institutions involved - e.g. experts, artists, organisations)
5. Idea of the project / project description / runtime
6. Aims of the project The main idea of the project is to form tolerant consciousness through intercultural dialogue in a city environment and to create an interactive photoexposition reflecting this idea. The participants of the project have chosen various objects of development of intercultural dialogue in their respective cities: family (Austria), interaction of an individual and city subcultures (Finland) and sociocultural space of the city (Russia). Vienna, St. Petersburg and Helsinki were chosen as the research cities. Each party collects a photos/pictures on the chosen theme and supplies it with the comments and an essay. The end result will be presented in the form of an interactive photo-exhibition on a CD-RW disk where each of the three themes will be presented on one of the three floors of a common house. This house is constructed on the base of “culture” and "respect", the end result of this construction is “tolerance”. On each floor there is a link, through which you will see a map of one of the cities and a photo with comments on the theme. This exposition is a reflection of a sight of the project participants on the development of intercultural dialogue in a megalopolis, on how a dialogue of cultures helps with the construction of a common house and a city in which people of different nationalities can live comfortably together. The exposition will be presented on the opening day (at the vernissage), hence the name of our team “Vernissage”.
media:Kopie_von_Learning_to_live_together_new.ppt
This is our presention, which illustrates our project.
7. Detailed project-schedule and method (who, what, when, how?)
a) Acquaintance, discussion interesting themes of the project by E-mail, preparation of materials for the first meeting in St. Petersburg (February-March 2008) b) Visit Saint-Petersburg. A meeting of participants of “a triangle”. Creation of team, a symbol, specification of a theme. Development of the general concept of “a triangle” work, creation of presentation of the project (April 2008) c) The publication of the general site on WIKI, addition materials to presentation (the end of April-May). Organization joint presentation of the project at a meeting in Austria (up to the end of May 2008) d) Gathering of the material on the three sections, the publication of materials about the course of work and intermediate results at a forum (June-September 2008) e) Finding more background information on the topics chosen, bringing together all materials of the exhibition, creating the general exposition and making preparations for the closing ceremonies (spring 2009). Each participating school will make the links of their floor ready and check they actually work. They will be presented in the Helsinki meeting in November. Finally, the disk presenting the exhibition will be finalized and presented in the spring of 2009.
8. Comment the projects here Rusinova Olga, gymnasium №171, St. Petersburg:
"I was astonished by project "Tolerance".In a matter of a few days I got acquainted with people from three absolutely different countries.I was pleasantly surprised how interested they were in St. Petersburg and its culture.During the course a these few days I was surrounded by a friendly atmosphere, new information and kind attitude.I think that despite the fact that we come from different cultural backgrounds, we have something in common - a desire to communicate.
I hope that our first meeting was a positive demonstration of our international dialogue."
Elisabeth Wagner, BRG 2 Vereinsgasse:
"The meeting in St. Petersburg was very exciting for our students. They enjoyed meeting new people from other cultures very much and had a fantastic opportunity to comunicate and develop their ideas. We were impressed by the hospitality of the families we met."
As you can see, we were very busy.
Volo Mykhalevych, Kallion lukio, Helsinki:
"The event was full of interesting adventures and mishaps and it was all worth it, starting with this. We enjoyed the different sides of St. Petersburg - thanks to everybody who put so much effort into it. Our meeting gave good ground to the project and the future looks most bright. Contacts have been made and understanding has been created."
9. Second Report
