workshops

Banlieuz'art

For one week, the 8th grade students (4ème1) of the Raymond Poincaré middle school in La Courneuve (93) made a newspaper from A to Z, based on visits to cultural venues in Seine-Saint-Denis.

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Writing the articles in do.doc

Fanzine and sound creation — Body

A workshop held between January and March 2020 with Frédéric Danos at the Lycée Colbert in Paris, with Luce Mongo-Mboussa’s 11th grade visual arts class.
During these workshop sessions, the students developed an approach to questions about the representation of the body in the digital age, by making a paper fanzine and creating sound pieces.

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Exploring planet ULIS

A one-week workshop led with Sarah Brown and Désert Numérique at the Armorin middle school in Crest (Drôme), with an ULIS class (Unités Localisées pour l’Inclusion Scolaire, inclusive education units). The ULIS program allows a small group of students with compatible disorders (language and learning disorders, autism, motor disorders, etc.) to attend primary and secondary school. During the week, the students become the explorers of a newly discovered planet. A pretext to introduce them to various video techniques and to make a video logbook of this exploration.

With a group of 9 students, from 6th to 8th grade.

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Frame-by-frame animation station

CHéPA — The Newspaper For Everyone

From September 2018 to April 2019, the 9th grade students of class 3ème1 at the Jean-Pierre Timbaud middle school worked on making a newspaper about sexism called CHéPA. The starting point of the students’ reflection was the exhibition Computer Grrrls (Gaîté Lyrique, March-June 2019) and the place of women in the history of computing.
Here is the report of Sarah, who led the workshops.
See the newspaper online (in French)
Download the newspaper as a PDF (in French)

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La petite lucarne (The little screen)

A series of three one-week workshops held in the Drôme, in the one-room schools of Cobonne and Saint-Nazaire, between April and June 2019. These workshops offered to make a TV show from A to Z.

Each workshop starts with an editorial meeting that decides which reports to film, and ends with a live show in front of the villagers, entirely produced by the children.

Workshops led with the association Désert Numérique and the video artist Sarah Brown.

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Live show (Allison’s class, Cobonne)

Sound and radio practices in first grade

Radio workshop in Serge Selvestrel’s first grade class at the Lacordaire school, 15th arrondissement, Paris, led with the artist Frédéric Danos

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do•doc at the scale of a school

For one year, do•doc and the opendoc are deployed in a school to encourage knowledge sharing between classes.

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The kits given to the classes.

Feuille de Choux

A series of three one-week workshops with various primary school classes in the Drôme. The theme: making a newspaper from A to Z with do•doc, in which the students talk to us about the environment. These workshops are led with the association Désert Numérique and the video artist Sarah Brown.

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Diagram summarizing the steps of the workshop.

Residency in Trébédan

This article tells the story of our week of immersive work in a kindergarten class of the Blé en Herbe school (Côtes d'Armor) with Nolwenn Guillou and her students. A look back, in pictures and drawings, to share our experiments in connection with educational issues, and our thoughts. On the program: discovering an organization based on work plans, redesigning do•doc, NFC tags, QR codes and tutorials made by the students, among other things.

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Capitaine futur and the Superflower

Creating a Superflower-making workshop, imagined by the children of the Labschool.
The workshop echoes the artwork The Timid Wilderness by Miranda Moss, as part of the European project Capitaine futur coordinated by the Gaîté Lyrique.

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Big Letters

Typeface creation and declination on multiple formats with first graders, in collaboration with a Fab Lab, the Carrefour Numérique2.

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Third phase: using the stamps in class to make printed materials. Here, with ink and linocut rollers.

Video4Science

Stop-motion workshop for a festival of media making for scientific open publications.

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Numok Festival

Introduction to stop-motion workshops with do.doc, as part of the Paris libraries festival.

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Telling our stories in first grade

A 6-month collaboration with a first grade class, Lacordaire school, Paris, France.

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Design researchers at the Alouettes school

For one year, we ran introductory design workshops in a primary school.

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