2020/05/03, St. Petersburg

Children of S-Petersburg and A4kids.org: on-line workshop

Our first on-line workshop with Children of St. Petersburg is reading and discussion of the book A4kids.org City of the Future.

For me, it was also the first experience of online lessons with children. I am very grateful to all participants who helped me and supported me.

Together we looked through the documentation of Icelandic workshops with children on the book “My Country”. These are similar books, both built as a discussion and invention of new (own) worlds.

Events

2022/08/18 Timișoara - A workshop and conversation based on the book What is the City from the A4 teens series.

2020/05/18 Лондон - Future City – A Visual Assembly

2018/12/05 Berlin - Pages created by kids

2018/09/19 Berlin - Post production of the book “What is Nation?”

2018/05/17 Reykjavík - A4kids “What is Nation” in Reykjavík’s central library

Books

What are kings?

What are Pirates?

City

Experts

Nika Dubrovsky

More Events

A4kids Takes Part in Exhibition at MMOMA

Nika Dubrovsky's book Future City included in exhibition at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art

Russian-Germans: Wo beginnt die Heimat? /C чего начинается Родина/What Is The Beginning Of Motherland

New project of Anthropology4all is a series of workshops, research and exhibition with Russian Germans immigrants.

Work with teenagers from Berlin welcoming classes

Anthropology for kids and teenagers from Berlin high school together thought about how a fair city of the Future could be arranged.

Kids stories – Portal Nation

...portal through which we can be transported into other worlds

Karuna kids asking what is wealth?

The first workshops in Koruna based on the book "What is wealth."

New pages for “What is school book”

New pages of the book "What is school" and the preface: a special book for school and at the same time a book about the school. How could it look like?

A4kids “What is Nation” in Reykjavík’s central library

Come check out the exhibition that showcases the results of a workshop for kids 9-12 years old held earlier this summer. The kids looked at the term nation and used their own imagination and critical thinking to express their thoughts and create their own utopian society.

How do we do workshops?

The methodology for workshops for A4k

Draw a map of the ideal country

What will the map of your country look like? We can use the map of Iceland to draw on it.

Future schools – workshops with teens

Workshops in HKW

Preparation to the exhibition “back from the USSR” (working title)

Preparation of the exhibition with Anastasia Khoroshilova, Yana Smetanina and Nika Dubrovsky on the materials of classes with Russian Germans in Berlin.

Talks and presentation:”What is wealth?”

The opening of the exhibition/talk "What is wealth?" - the result of the work of A4 Kids Lab Karuna Berlin

How to live together? At Pickle Bar Slavs and Tatars.

28th May 4pm: Workshop by Nika Dubrovsky "Anthropology for kids: an introduction of the book series, a workshop and a conversation full of pictures and stories about what does it mean to be human"

Post production of the book “What is Nation?”

Children's contributions from the workshops of "What is Nation" were amazing! We are starting to work on the postproduction of the book.

Monuments: for the people by the people!

What is Visual Assembly? In times when monuments are demolished, it's would be great to offer a new version of the monuments for the people by the people!

History of Un/Justice

Exhibition organized by publishing house Samokat at the Krasnoyarsk book fair

EXHIBITION BASED ON THE ON-LINE CLASSES WITH MIGRANTS KIDS

We are working on how to organized a new exhibition. Please, share your opinion with us.

Cities Made Differently Visual Assembly

Cities Made Differently

Drawing future schools for the imaginary Nation

Сhildren came up with an ideal school in an ideal state

Another Art World, Part 2: Utopia of Freedom as a Market Value

Continued from “Another Art World, Part 1: Art Communism and Artificial Scarcity”.

Preparation to What is the nation workshops in Iceland

Meeting with the librarians from Iceland

A workshop and conversation based on the book What is the City from the A4 teens series.

These sessions are a game and an experiment.
Participants in the workshop, based on the book "The City of the Future," will be divided into two groups. Each group will receive a large piece of paper, a giant tablecloth.

Olga Bukhina about “What the Dutch like”

Discussion and exhibition “WHAT IS WEALTH?”

Discussion and exhibition with participation of David Graber, Ilona Otto, Frank Engster, Nika Dubrovsky and the kids from Karuna at ACUD MACHT NEU

Freedom, wealth and debt.

What did the ancient Greeks think about debt and freedom?

Nationalism and the changing idea of citizenship

I asked Keith Hart to talk to me about nationalism and the changing idea of citizenship.

An association of divorced women from the former GDR demanding justice.

Why We Founded the Yes Women, an Art Group Demanding Justice for Divorcées in the Former East Germany. The long, hard road to the birth of a new slogan: "Never Mind Us!"

Shifting the Focus from the Super Poor to the Super-Rich

#TALK #OPENDISCUSSION #LECTURE
Open discussion about climate change and economic inequality.
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Workshop “Future city” (How to live together?)

The Reykjavik libraries with Sara Oldudottir and Olof Sverrisdottir

Together we did 5 workshops based on the book "What is Nation"!

Labor Union New Paper Solidarity

The heroes of Working Class

Online exhibition ‘Where does home start?’

The exhibition 'Back from CCCP. Where does home start? ' originated at the intersection of art, social work and historical research.

Pages from the School book

Pages of the book "School" describing different types of schools that exist around the world.

Johannesburg’s school kids workshop by Zandile Ngubeni

Johannesburg's school kids
South Africa

“What is Privacy?” workshops with teenagers

The workshops in a framework of exhibition by WHW collective

Invent your flag, your coat of arms

In your book what would be the flag and coat of arms of your country?

Nelson Mandela students talk to the students from Summerhill

Kids from England and Germany were talking to each other via skype in a frame work of the HKW project The schools of the Future

How I integrated the kids’ input

At the beginning of work on the A4kid book, we organise workshops for kids, in which they draw, comment and make notes in a first version of the book. An essential part of the A4Kids project is kid's works, that will became part of the next version of the book for future readers'

Inventing your own Nation

How will people of your nationality look?

Who feeds “social parasites”?

Children discuss the famous dialogue of the Nobel Laureate poet and translator Joseph Brodsky with a judge of the district Leningrad court, who condemned him to five years of forced labor and expulsion from the city.

Presentation of the “Who are the kings? (True and edifying stories)”

Who's in Istanbul now? Come for tea and conversation about kings and the hidden secret of their power.

Privat stories

Probably for each person it is essential to compare her or his personal stories with public perceptions about important issues, such as "What is wealth?", " What is poverty?" and "Where do they come from?"

Great to be outside!

Sara Oldudottir took the kids - participants of the workshop Nation outside to draw with the chalk on the sideboard

Anastasia Khoroshilova as part of the project “Anthropology for All” and the exhibition “Where the Motherland begins?”

Portraits of members of the community of Russian Germans resettled by photographer Anastasia Khoroshilova as part of the project "Anthropology for All" and the exhibition "Where the Motherland begins?"

In/Justice – one of the best books of the month

"In/Justice", the first edition in her series "Anthropology For Kids", produced by Neue Auftraggeber, is now out in its Russian version.

How to change the time line of In/Juctice?

In/Juctice, that could be changed by the participants.

Privacy is important!

We started drawing portraits of each other. Gradually, more and more appear ...

Nelson Mandela school and Tablecloths

School of "Maple syrup cult" by Nelson Mandela students Berlin.

David Graeber reading story from the King’s book

Interactive pages. Kids stories about School.

Let’s think together about imaginary schools.

Future City – A Visual Assembly

We participated in an initial trial of what we’re hoping might become a new tool for unleashing collective imagination in public assemblies.

Pages created by kids

Children have created incredibly beautiful and complexity of work, pages after pages full of comments and drawings.

Exhibitions “Invent your nation” in Libraries

Parents, children, librarians and class leaders gathered at the opening of the exhibition of children's books "My Nationality"

BOOK LAUNCH: ‘Cities Made Differently’ by DAVID GRAEBER & NIKA DUBROVSKY

Join us to celebrate the publication of Cities Made Differently at Housmans!

Protest

Protest book now in Finish with the future workshops and web page.

Some years ago in Moscow

A few years ago in Moscow, Media Udar curator Tanya Volkova did an exhibition in which she included a book of Anthropology for Kids - What is Family.

Call for participants

On line A4kids Lab in S-Petersburg.

Wealth and Climate Change

We are working on a series of postcards that could be sent to people to convince them to change their choices.

Art and communism. Article by Nika Dubrovsky and David Graeber

The Russian revolutionary avant-garde was rooted squarely in the tradition we have just described.

Who are the Germans?

Anthropology for all started to work with older people. Our first group is Russian Germans immigrants.

How to write?

Someone writes quickly, and someone writes slow. Someone melancholic, and someone rigorous. But all the opinions turned out to be remarkably sharp and unexpected.

Future cities: Utopia or Dystopia?

What awaits us: Utopia or Dystopia?

Collection of the children posters for In/Justice book

Workshop with kids based on In/Justice book

Preparation for the exhibition based on the on-line classes with migrants kids

A4kids Labs

What is it? Who we are and how to join us?

New version of the book Nation

I continue to work on a new version of the book "What is a Nation", which will include stories told by children, their opinions and their drawings.