Community Project
Creación de Avatar – Primaria Filomeno Mata, de Manialtepec.
The general objective of the project was to generate an interactive publication that combines exercises that activate critical thinking, develop respect and are framed in the theory of gender in infants. The final product of the workshop sessions is a booklet with a description of the activities developed , which promotes the creativity, critical thinking and equity of the workshop, this, so that it can be replicate in other communities. The project was developed in its entirety in Casa Wabi with children from the Filomeno Mata primary school in Manialtepec.
During the first session there was a warm-up and stretching exercise to relax the children, then they were taken to the multipurpose room to develop an activity called “Creation of Avatars”. In which the children helped themselves to draw the silhouette of the body of their companions to create their avatar. The purpose of this activity was to develop respect towards the body of the other and the identification of different corporalities. At the end of this activity a guided meditation session was held.
In the second session, warm-up exercises were carried out in the observatory of the house, silhouettes of avatars were cut out and exposed in the main palapa. Each child was given a “superpower” and a “value” with which they gave their avatar attributes, concepts such as equity, sorority, union, respect, equality, tolerance, among others. Each child explained the powers or abilities of his avatar, based on the concepts talked about, thus turning the civic principles into a “superpower”.
In the third session after the warm-up, the children were blindfolded and tasted different sweets, bittersweet, chocolates, bitter and spicy. The idea was that in the end each child would draw blindly the “flavor” that each food that he ingested produced him and that they would also represent that with a movement of the body. Afterwards the participants measured different parts of their body, to understand the different corporalities that each one has and with those measures they cut them out in colored strips, constellations and different figures were formed to create collective pieces that reflect the union of all the participants.
In the last session each participant was asked to bring their favorite garment and to explain why this garment was so special, many stories emerged that reflected their way of life and the family composition of each one. Octavio Avendaño was used as a model to wear these garments and to emphasize that clothing is for everyone and does not have a specific gender. In the end they were shown the film “Spirited Away” by Hayao Miyazaki.
The general objective of the project was to generate an interactive publication that combines exercises that activate critical thinking, develop respect and are framed in the theory of gender in infants. The final product of the workshop sessions is a booklet with a description of the activities developed , which promotes the creativity, critical thinking and equity of the workshop, this, so that it can be replicate in other communities. The project was developed in its entirety in Casa Wabi with children from the Filomeno Mata primary school in Manialtepec.
During the first session there was a warm-up and stretching exercise to relax the children, then they were taken to the multipurpose room to develop an activity called “Creation of Avatars”. In which the children helped themselves to draw the silhouette of the body of their companions to create their avatar. The purpose of this activity was to develop respect towards the body of the other and the identification of different corporalities. At the end of this activity a guided meditation session was held.
In the second session, warm-up exercises were carried out in the observatory of the house, silhouettes of avatars were cut out and exposed in the main palapa. Each child was given a “superpower” and a “value” with which they gave their avatar attributes, concepts such as equity, sorority, union, respect, equality, tolerance, among others. Each child explained the powers or abilities of his avatar, based on the concepts talked about, thus turning the civic principles into a “superpower”.
In the third session after the warm-up, the children were blindfolded and tasted different sweets, bittersweet, chocolates, bitter and spicy. The idea was that in the end each child would draw blindly the “flavor” that each food that he ingested produced him and that they would also represent that with a movement of the body. Afterwards the participants measured different parts of their body, to understand the different corporalities that each one has and with those measures they cut them out in colored strips, constellations and different figures were formed to create collective pieces that reflect the union of all the participants.
In the last session each participant was asked to bring their favorite garment and to explain why this garment was so special, many stories emerged that reflected their way of life and the family composition of each one. Octavio Avendaño was used as a model to wear these garments and to emphasize that clothing is for everyone and does not have a specific gender. In the end they were shown the film “Spirited Away” by Hayao Miyazaki.
