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Drawing future schools for the imaginary Nation

Сhildren came up with an ideal school in an ideal state

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Work with teenagers from Berlin welcoming classes.

АНГЛ Антропология для детей и подростки из Берлинских старших классов вместе думали о том, как мог бы быть устроен справедливый город Будущего.

Russian-Germans

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

Future schools – workshops with teens

Workshops in HKW during the festival Future Schools with Dana Daymand, Zuzana Tabackova, Hanna Lentz and student of Nelson Mandela school
with Tablecloth, videos and 3d plans

A4kids Labs

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

Nationalism and the changing idea of citizenship.

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

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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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'

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

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?"

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.

The Reykjavik libraries with Sara Oldudottir and Olof Sverrisdottir

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

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.

Invent your flag, your coat of arms

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

Art and communism. Article by Nika Dubrovsky and David Graeber

How do we do workshops?

The methodology for workshops for A4k

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

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.

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.

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.

How to change the time line of In/Juctice?

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

Labor Union New Paper Solidarity

The heroes of Working Class

#AISFORANTHROPOLOGY: INTRODUCTION

To kick-off our #AisforAnthropology thread, Nika Dubrovsky will be talking to us throughout the week about her project, A4Kids.

Some years ago im 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.

Interactive pages. Kids stories about School.

Let’s think together about imaginary schools. What if we have no limits other than the boundaries
of our fantasy? Here are the ideas of different kids from different countries around the world.

Kids stories – Portal Nation

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

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

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.

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!

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.

Inventing your own Nation

How will people of your nationality look? Will they be blue, white, green or will they have wings?

Preparation to What is the nation workshops in Iceland

Meeting with the librarians from Iceland

Protest

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

Series of publications about A4kids at #AisforAnthropology

A4Kids is a project developed and run by Nika Dubrovski. It aims to bring the anthropological lens to children by way of (free) downloadable interactive books and workshops.

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.
These are portraits of children - participants of the project.

A4KIDS: HOW IT ALL STARTED

“Anthropology for kids” as a research project
Ispent most of my life doing two things – raising children and moving from country to country. I’m an eternal immigrant. England, where I live now, is my eighth relocation.

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!"

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?"

I dont know what is money.

The artist Nika Dubrovsky and the economist Michael Hudson are working on a book about money. It is part of a series that prepares complex topics for children. The idea arose from Nika Dubrovsky's collaboration on “Debt: The First 5000 Years” by David Graeber, her recently deceas

Future cities: Utopia or Dystopia?

What awaits us: Utopia or Dystopia?

Соглашение между участниками a4kids.org/labs

Начинаем работу над разделом сайта, который позволит участникам скачивать учебные материалы, добавлять собственные и общаться друг с другом.
Выкладываю соглашение для обсуждения.

test post in German

German

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.

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.

History of Un/Justice

Exhibition organized by publishing house Samokat at the Krasnoyarsk book fair

Olga Bukhina about “What the Dutch like”

David Graeber reading story from the King’s book

Great to be outside!

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

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.

Pages from the School book

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

#AISFORANTHROPOLOGY: IN CONVERSATION WITH NIKA DUBROVSKY (I)

On a February Thursday afternoon, Nika Dubrovsky and Allegra assistant editor Emilie Thevenoz sat down together over Zoom. The chat covered the pedagogical concepts and ideas that guide Nika’s work, the ways anthropology can help children question the value systems they inherit

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

Johannesburg’s school kids workshop by Zandile Ngubeni

Johannesburg's school kids
South Africa

Nelson Mandela school and Tablecloths

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

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.

Freedom, wealth and debt.

What did the ancient Greeks think about debt and freedom?

Call for participants

On line A4kids Lab in S-Petersburg.

Karuna kids asking what is wealth?

The first workshops in Koruna based on the book "What is wealth." Children who are participating are from different countries and with different (amazingly interesting) cultural background.

“What is Privacy?” workshops with teenagers

The workshops in a framework of exhibition by WHW collective

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

Children of S-Petersburg and A4kids.org

Who are the Germans?

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

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"

Privacy is important!

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

Pages created by kids

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

Collection of the children posters for In/Justice book

Workshop with kids based on In/Justice book

2018/07/11, REYKJAVIK

Drawing future schools for the imaginary Nation

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