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2018/11/22 Berlin - New version of the book Nation

2018/11/01 REKYAVIK - How I integrated the kids’ input

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

2018/07/12 REYKJAVIK - Inventing your own Nation

2018/07/11 REYKJAVIK - Invent your flag, your coat of arms

2018/07/11 REYKJAVIK - Drawing future schools for the imaginary Nation

2018/06/14 REYKJAVIK - Exhibitions “Invent your nation” in Libraries

2018/06/14 Reykjavik - Kids stories – Portal Nation

2018/06/13 Reykjavik - Great to be outside!

2018/06/11 REYKJAVIK - Draw a map of the ideal country

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

2012/02/07 Paris - Nationalism and the changing idea of citizenship.

Experts

Olumide Abimbola

Olof Sverrisdottir

Andreas Siekmann

Olumide Abimbola

Olumide Abimbola political economist and economic anthropologist with research and analysis experience in trade, regional integration, political risk, extractive industry.

Keith Hart

Keith Hart, most known as an economic anthropologist and the inventor of the term
“informal economy”, he is looking at the definition of what does it mean to be a citizen
from the economic point of view and how it affect the rights and define the role in a
society for a different

Olof Sverrisdottir

Olof Sverrisdottir - storyteller and writer of childrenbooks.

Jerome Gold

Jerome Gold is an american book author

Andreas Siekmann

Artist, researcher, activist

Nika Dubrovsky

Nika is an author who is working on several publishing and art projects, including A4kids.org, an open-source platform experimenting with new educational formats, co-created with her late husband David Graeber, an anthropologist and activist.

Book

My country

This book is a game. Let's invent a new nation together, while thinking about where the word "nationality" comes from and how it is viewed in different cultures.

Posts

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.

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.

Invent your flag, your coat of arms

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

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.

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"

Inventing your own Nation

How will people of your nationality look?

Drawing future schools for the imaginary Nation

Сhildren came up with an ideal school in an ideal state

Great to be outside!

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

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.

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'

Kids stories – Portal Nation

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

Nationalism and the changing idea of citizenship.

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

Iceland

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