DRESS TO IMPRESS: A FASHION KISS FOR PEACE! With our project title “Dress to impress: A fashion kiss for peace!” we want to express our intention to lead the students` awareness to a peaceful communication by creating and wearing fashion to set positive statements. “Je suis Charlie” is one of our flashpoints. The serious development of the actual political situation in the world asks for peaceful re-actions and visions to find ideas created by students – the youth of Europe – for a way how to show their open minded community and tolerant coexistence. Fashion has a motivating character for young people to express their personal identity and find their own style. Additional they send a message and set a statement for peace by wearing their clothes created by themselves. This project has to be carried out in Europe because the students exchange, discuss and reflect their ideas about religion, politics, tolerance in an intercultural dialogue and realise their visions in a positive way by setting statements of peace in their European fashion style designed by themselves in international teams (with partner schools from Poland/Elblag, Turkey/Gemlik, Germany/Beerfelden) during Erasmus + meetings in every country, fashion blogs, fashion weeks/shows and digital communication. By dissemination events, in Germany Theatre-Music-Art festival and at public places the students show different fashion lines (corporate identity, recycling aspects) with logos and slogans (poems, proverbs, innovative appeal) to send a “fashion kiss”, that means fashion created with love representing their peaceful intention. Hereby they develop a sense for entrepreneurship. For their collection from top to toe the students create a concept with promotion to distribute their ideas and fashion styles. This collection will be published by the students’ representatives of every partner school contacting out-of-school organisations and enterprises to initiate an international dialouge to reach a multiplier effect of their vision of peace – including a special support for disadvantaged people (students from difficult social background; invitation of refugees). In the subjects design, craft work, religion, philosophy, history, National language, English, politics and art classes we activate and elaborate the students’ background knowledge about fair trade, business, fashion material, design, production, conditions of production, peace literature, linguistic competences and political situation in the world with analysis, interviews, digital and personal research, visits, lectures, interactive actions and happenings. The project is carried out in 3 phases: preparation for transn. learning activities - 10 students per partnerschool in host families (process of professional orientation) 1st year: - Transn. Proj. Meeting with coordinators: organisation, management , motivation, considering SWOT analysis, SMART skills : Poland -Trans. learning activities/Germany: Sensibilisation for solutions of peace discussing the actual political situation in the world to find peacefull issues by panel discussions with experts of peace literature and representatives of different religions - Discover fashion as multiplier method to present the students' statements of peace by European workshops for the development of corporate identity via fashion and international logo competition with regional media experts of design who open their doors of companies to introduce their profession; Workshop for screen printing of statements for peace created by students with fashion shows in the region and surroundings on a public place in Frankfurt / Heidelberg,- if possible - on a red carpet in Berlin - Reichstag 2nd year: - Transnational learning activities in Turkey with final balloon happening sending postcards of peace into the world. The students exchange their art fashion style in different colours as swap action to discover diversity as enrichment. 3rd year: - Transnational learning activities in Poland with development of natural fashion line from top to toe with final presentation on the European catwalk and discussions with representatives of Nobel Peace Prize and World Peace Convention with special guests “Fashion – the Language of Redefining Liberty” By this intercultural project the students develop their awareness of the importance of peace, empathy for refugees, tolerance for diversity, sensibility for a conscious and respectful interaction with environment and society and they spread their creativity as vision for a peaceful future. By the creative process in an intercultural dialogue they develop their grown self-confidence to exchange and realise their visions with enthusiame. They dress their collection to impress the international public by wearing their visions with a fashion kiss for peace: Wearing the collection has the power to convince people and multiply the positive thoughts and peaceful vision for a following community.
With our project title "DRESS TO IMPRESS: A FASHION KISS FOR PEACE!" We express that we lead the students to peaceful communication by creating and wearing fashion to make positive statements. "Je suis Charlie" was one of our flashpoints. The serious development of the current political situation in the world calls for peaceful responses and visions to find ideas created by students to show their open-minded spirit and tolerant coexistence. The students expressed peace statements with their fashion creations, which they presented themselves in international teams during Erasmus + meetings in each country with fashion shows. 1st meeting from 30.11.2015-04.12.2015: Teacher working meeting in Poland: - Write a letter of good intention and cooperation with the whole team of co-ordinators - Financial plan - Activation of TwinSpace / Homepage - Presentations on various project topics Participants: 3 teachers of the Oberzent-Schule, 2 Polish teachers, 3 Turkish teachers 2nd meeting from 25.04.-29.04.2016: Transnational meeting with students in Germany: - Logo competition and development - Peace dialogue with politician Jan Schierkolk - Development of an international fashion show for peace - Performance of the national and international fashion shows in front of the Reichstag in Berlin with the printed T-shirts (Erasmus Peace Logo) and Peace Collections - Photo Fashion Rally in Frankfurt - Interactive Happy Show by the designer Stefan Sagmeister Participants: 3 Polish teachers, 4 Turkish teachers, 3 German Erasmus teachers, school board of the Oberzent-Schule, 40 students of A-courses English, 8 refugees from Afghanistan (based in Beerfelden), members of the association, the local press, politician Jan Schierkolk, 10 Polish students, 8 Turkish students, 20 German Erasmus students, parents representatives 3rd meeting from 24.04.2017-28.04.2017: Transnational meeting in Poland: - Development of a fashion collection in a color line - Presentation of a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate from the respective country: for us Willi Brandt. - Fairtrade in the fashion world - Transnational European Fashionshow for Peace 4th meeting from 19.03.-23.03.2018: Transnational meeting in Germany instead of Turkey Due to the current political situation in Turkey, the meeting, which was originally planned in Turkey, could not take place there, so the meeting was held in our Oberzent-Schule. However, we included our team from Turkey in all activities (see language workshop and balloon happening) and forwarded it via video. - Fashion Show for Peace with jeans collection under recycling aspects - Presentation of a designer with special commitment from the region of all partner schools, for our school: the designer Ramones Eger from Frankfurt with his idea to make waterproof sleeping bags for homeless people out of old umbrellas. - European language workshop for peace messages - International dance workshop with European choreography for Fashionshow for Peace - Balloon happening with school community and European team - "400 balloons fly into the sky" with heart shaped balloons with peace messages in all partner languages - Fashion rally through Munich with focus on messages of peace via fashion Participants: 2 Polish teachers, 10 Polish students, 2 German coordinators plus entire school community 5th evaluation meeting with all coordinators in Germany - Letter of Good Intention and Cooperation (prepared at the beginning of the project at preparatory meetings) as a basis for reflection on optimization for future projects - Feedback: Activities performed and mood - Sighting Feedback Balloon Action with lots of very positive feedback from found balloons with peace messages - Tour through documentation of the project with logo on wall in the break room, picture frames with photos and reports on all project meetings - appreciative and constructive exchange of ideas with school management and coordinators of all partner schools - Highlights of the region with a view to future projects Participants: 2 Turkish teachers with 1 principal, 3 Polish, 3 German teachers, our Turkish teacher, our school management team Our partner school from Poland with secondary school students was mainly our English expert, our partner school from Turkey responsible for input on the materials for the jeans fashion show. All students were housed in host families. Through dissemination events at theater music art festivals, taster days, air balloon happening, press reports and homepage articles, the idea of peace has spread beyond our region. By wearing her peacefashion, the positive attitude is sustainably aware and unconsciously taken for granted and will continue to accompany the students in the future.