The Small World Project

Communication

Connect, Extend, Challenge

Connect with media arts and our own culture

Extend our worldview by creating and sharing media

Challenge ourselves to engage with international peers

The Small World Project is an international media-arts workshop that gives students the opportunity to creatively share their world through real dialogue and artistic exchange with international peers. We observe, analyse, create, share, and explore.

Learning Objectives

• Think and learn creatively -- diverge from the one-answer model
• Learn to effectively “read” media – video, written words, sound/music, and more
• Develop the creative capacities and technical skills to create new media
• Creatively explore and reflect upon the lives of real people at home and around the world

Activities

• Watch and analyse historical and contemporary media
• Record & Remix Sounds
• Compose a soundtrack to an animation
• Investigate structure of literature/poems, and apply to video storyboarding
• Plan, Shoot, and Edit a short video
• Share and Collaborate with students around the world
• Interpret and Critique other students' work

Student Learning Outcomes

• Increased confidence in one's own capacity as an artist and creative thinker
• A deeper awareness of media and how to interpret it
• Expanded skill set for generating media
• A deeper, personal connection to youth and youth culture around the world
• A stronger connection to one's own community
• A greater capacity for empathy through peer engagement and reflection

What Students Get

• Student account on the Small World global webpage, for communicating and collaborating with other Small World students around the world
• Finished projects (soundtrack, video haiku) are posted to the Small World webpage
• Guide for further media exposure and study in Hong Kong (video libraries, galleries, art centers, artists)

Workshop Details