During the workshops, we improvise, explore, dance, and write, ultimately shaping our activities into a performative game about migration accessible to a wide audience of participants. The game, set to be completed by the end of 2025, will be rooted in performative and artistic tools and methods that help shape empathy and understanding for other people, their decisions, and struggles. It will be designed to be useful in various social and cultural contexts, facilitating mutual learning using artistic methods of expression in groups that mix different generations and perspectives.
What are we working on?
The Crossworlds Game - Imagination Workshops program focuses on creating processes and tools to understand today’s migration in its complexity, considering the climate crisis, challenges, and daily struggles of life in a new country, legal issues, building new relationships, and finding a place to live. In the workshops, we aim to break down our thought patterns about migration and moving, collectively pondering where the beliefs about the need for nations, borders, and documents confirming the right to move and reside in a place come from. We draw on both our experiences and texts about the migratory processes of people, animals, and plants, as well as the philosophy of movement and issues of climate justice and equitable mobility. By examining the mechanisms of various games, we strive to understand their impact on shaping engagement, empathy, and group action.
How do we work?
The methods we use in our workshops are participatory and democratic; the facilitators share their knowledge and propose improvisations, games, and creative tasks (movement, theater, visual arts, music, or writing). The activities are conducted in an atmosphere of mutual learning and exchange. Therefore, our program works with talents, ideas, and inspirations that emerge from the group. We focus on strengthening the skill of learning from each other as well as noticing and developing talents and interests. The workshops draw on various artistic working methods that promote social engagement and a sense of responsibility for the world we live in and for other people. The activities of the program are based on tools and methods that focus on the exchange of experience, improvisation, imagination, collaboration, and mindfulness, including people with different life stories, of different ages, and speaking various languages in joint action. They also serve as an opportunity to develop talents and skills, discovering previously unknown forms of self-expression and perspectives on the world. Important to our work is the focus on the development of imagination as a factor that can assist in daily challenges regarding important social issues of migration and climate change.
The program is implemented in collaboration with Cantieri Meticci, with the game prepared by us being available in Polish, Italian, and English.
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