DREAM SPACE – Performing Art and Connected objects for rural development (Training Course)

1-15 August 2017 in Germany
5-15 September 2017 in Turkey

ABOUT DREAM SPACE
Dream space project aims at developing new tools for youth work using connected objects to develop site specific performances in rural spaces and engage in rural valorisation and development. During a 20 days' training in Germany, youth workers with support of artists will explore ways to integrate connected objects and digital tools to create site specific performances. During a 11 days' training in Turkey, they will use their newly developed tools and animate workshops with youth at risk to create performances in rural spaces using connected objects and engage them in the valorization of their living areas, using outdoors activities and digital tools.

PARTNERS’ TASKS
As a partner, we will need you to firstly apply by sending us an email with the PIF; secondly, once selected, by signing and stamping the mandate; then, if the project is approve, by joining us to develop and design the program and a dissemination plan; finally, by selecting participants to be part of the activities.

WHO CAN BE PARTNER?
You believe that you could propose an interesting set of participants and help us spread our projects results widely? Then BINGO, you can be our partner! Write us for more details on how to do that.

BACKGROUND
The Internet of Things describes a world in which everyday objects are connected to a network so that data can be shared. The concept has the potential to fundamentally shift the way people interact with their surroundings. The ability to monitor and manage objects in the physical world electronically has huge potential to improve our quality of life. It is really as much about people as the inanimate objects. Many millions of young people already carry ‘smart’ phones but a phone on its own is not smart. It helps its user to make smarter decisions. And it is only the beginning what the Internet of Things is capable of. Current developments in information technology are creating opportunities for a new generation of connected objects, integrated intimately into the everyday fabric of our lives. These inventions have also the potential to be socially meaningful.
On the other hand, one of the common characteristics of rural communities globally, and especially those in the developed countries of the world, is the exodus of youth in search of ‘greener pastures’. One of the main reason of that brain drain, next to structural problems, is young people perception on life opportunities in rural areas. Most of young people define “rural” a place where the main activity being carried out is the agricultural activity with limited possibilities of professional career and education. Another most common prejudice about is isolation and difficulties in terms of loss of autonomy and consequent work‐life balance. In public consciousness those areas are attributed with a place where it is hard to build relationships and whose community is closed.

OUTCOMES
Our main objective is the development of tools using performative arts and concept of Internet of Things (IoT) to educate young people about the beauty and potential of their territory, wishing to turn them into active actors of their society through the use of digital tools and creative outdoor activities. The idea is to develop site specific performances using connected objects that put the youth worker and young performers in the centre of creation, laying a bridge between artistic creation, technology, active participation and social change. The participants will learn how to use connected objects that can possibly come alive in interaction with an interpreter, to explore the possibilities for living art, offering new ways of designing music, light, movement and space. The huge potential that mixes the creativity of artist and perspective of youth worker with the nowadays powerful open hardware technologies opens a way to turn the rural community more attractive for outsiders and to improve youth self-agency.

To apply, send an email to karolina@nomadways.eu adding Dream space in the subject line.