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Zombieland Europe - Learning from the Undead

2019-1-DE04-KA105-0176222019Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: DE|HU|CZ|SK|IT|PL · Grant: €23,721
Social entrepreneurship / social innovationEU Citizenship, EU awareness and DemocracyCreativity and culture

Objectives

Participants and partners of this highly innovative project will find themselves thrown into the Zombie-Apocalypse and over the course of 8 days will have to find a cure against the Zombie-Virus. Along the lines of this immersive popcultral storytelling we will look into ourselves and the world(s) around us. What is it that we personally and the world globally really needs in order to change for the better? The Zombie-Virus metaphor is thus an equally powerful and playful approach to think and learn about social, political and cultural developments. Believing that true learning (that leads to a change of actions and behaviour within the participants) does not only require the cognitive level, we have developed this project to take into account emotional (EQ) and bodily intelligences (s. Guy Claxton) as learning entities to design a transformational project, that helps participants to come to a full and deep understanding of who they are in the world and how they can make a difference. For this project to reach these ambitious objectives we have therefore carefully and collaboratively curated experiences ranging from drama games, immersive theatre, life acting role play or phantasy journeys to Virtual Reality. The anthropocene provides one of the projects most pressing and urgent questions: "Since humans are a geo- and sociochronological factor on this planet, what do we have to evolve into to make our countries, Europe and finally the world a better place?" However, Zombieland is neither an academic nor a philosophical project, but one that centres also on the power of intercultural exchange as one of the very essentials of European Identity development.

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