A 24-hour festival in Jyväskylä’s theatre building called The heart of Jyväskylä / Jyväsyklän sydän demonstrated on the 20th of November what a concentration of creativity there is in this town. Experience Workshop teamed up with Jyvälä Settlements to contribute a multicultural STEAM and music event to the long day. The event is part[…]
Experience Workshop’s STEAM community activities again filled Jyvälä’s gym at the Game Day on 9.11.2019. See how 4DFrame soft blocks became the source of fun: Thanks to the JAMK University of Applied Sciences, people could try the New Horizons game developed by the students of JAMK. New Horizons facilitates interaction and dialogue through game play.[…]
The Festival of diversity was celebrated at the Gradia school in Jyväskylä on the 24th of October (in Finnish “Meitä on moneksi päivä”). Experience Workshop, in cooperation with Jyvälä Settlements, participated with a STEAM and music workshop in this event. The STEAM workshop focused on: 4DFrame, LUX, Itsphun, CaraWonga, Pentiles The event is part of[…]
This was Valon kaupunki – the City of Light festival in Jyväskylä on September 28, 2019, when we’ve invited everyone to build together the giant Sierpinski fractal of 4D Frame, and to create the structure in small scale. The building works were directed by the Oma Polku group, in the breaks the Senegalese musician Pape[…]
COLLABORATIVE PROBLEM-SOLVING THROUGH MULTIDISCIPLINARY & PHENOMENON-BASED LEARNING How does multidisciplinary and phenomenon-based learning contribute to group building and community cohesion? We’ve presented some of the roads one can walk as a teacher of immigrants of diverse backgrounds. The participants of the training teach at Gradia Jyväskylä, an education consortium bringing together vocational and upper secondary[…]
Here they are, the Oma polku ryhmä / Own path group, just arriving at Annantalo, the center of Helsinki Design Week’s children’s programs. They have prepared a program called Sillat työpaja / Bridges workshop to show and hope to see whether others might join in. They are immigrants, who came alone to Finland when still[…]
The Uptown Night Festival or Yläkaupungin Yö marks the beginning of the summer in Jyväskylä, when everyone who is able to move is hanging out on the streets playing, listening to concerts or eating. Finnish weather surprised us with an extreme of 25 plus degrees. Experience Workshop was also out on one of the best[…]
In May, 2019, Pentiles have been enjoyed by the youth participants of Experience Workshop’s SILLAT project in Jyväskylä, Finland. Read more on Pentiles here: http://www.elmenymuhely.hu/pentiles?lang=en Contact us if you are interested: info@experienceworkshop.org