As part of CNAP, site-specific questions in relation to neighborhood, district, environment, city, sites, etc. were proposed: What are the local characteristics and/or problems (aesthetic, cultural, political, economic, etc.) that the students are dealing with in Vienna and Kassel? How can a particular place be sensually and aesthetically explored and how do young people relate themselves to specific places? How does the respective individual and collective perception of space, shape social memory and thus the resulting (group) identity? By raising these questions, the aim was to create awareness and understanding of how collaborative artistic and creative work can be practiced and how creative and/or artistic processes can be embedded in communities to achieve collective goals. A further motivation was to intervene, strengthen and co-create social, communal, aesthetic and artistic content. Not only to show the amount of work und passion the pupils put in their art, but also to raise the students´confidence in their own abilities and to be appreciated as forming members of their community. The full spectrum of artistic content created by the students for the Erasmus+ Project CNAP was presented to the public by an art show.
Changing Perspectives pursued the goal of an exploration of artistic, aesthetic and political spatial perception as well as clichéd stereotypes and phenomena. CNAP gave the participants the opportunity not only to articulate themselves through the common (spoken) language, but also to learn to express and communicate through aesthetic and creative methods. Thereby the projects issues always centered around the pupil’s everyday life and perspectives. CNAP also aimed to encourage students to discover new things, to be open-minded and to leave their own "comfort zone" to gain new understanding and develop a sense for artistic means of expression. In doing so, the students were asked to broaden their subjective, individual, medial, digital and socio-economic or topographical perspectives. In consideration of the previous Covid-19 pandemic (2020 - 2022), this seemed particularly necessary to us, as the associated contact restrictions meant that personal development (for example through aesthetic and sensory experience), was only possible to a very limited extent, especially for young people.