Summary:
To discover, through sensory experiences, the surroundings of the Governor’s House in order to appropriate this space and express its feelings through different communication media. Through different workshops the children will be led to use sight, hearing, smell, touch to apprehend the space, to exchange with their comrades on their experiences, their emotions, their feelings and to build together a dialogue with this space mixing contemporary art and historical heritage, and their creativity.
Educational Objectives:
Identify: give a reasoned opinion on what represents or expresses a work of art and the elements surrounding it.
Analyze: by observation, touch or listening, identify the main technical and formal characteristics of the surroundings and the work presented
Finding your way in a museum, a place of art, a heritage site
Ask questions and ask questions
Present a clear and orderly point of view
Educate youth about culture, art and heritage in an inclusive way
Open up to the artist’s world by arguing individual choices, observing details, identifying constants of the artist’s plastic language
Expressing emotions in front of the works and its environment and listening to those of the group.
In practice
Proposal of several sensory workshops:
The view: through workshops of drawing, writing, memorization, children discover and express the colors, shapes, details of the elements that surround them. Hearing: blindfolded, children are led to focus on the sounds they hear around them (birds, winds, waters, etc.). They can also listen to the history of the place and what was happening there in the Middle Ages or an excerpt from the history of Gargantua, to transcribe the elements that marked them in writing, drawing or both. Touch: blindfolded, children are brought to focus on their sensations (the ground, the wind, textures, etc.). They are also led to draw by offsets imprints of the textures that surround them. Smell: smell the leaves and aromatic or medicinal plants of the garden.
Feel the spices present in the Middle age, try to recognize them, find them in the smells of everyday life. These workshops will not all be offered on a session, they adapt according to the level of the students, the dynamics of the group and the proposals of the students.