The Museu do Bairro (‘neighborhood museum’) project is a good practice example with the use of art, media literacy, and participatory methodologies to engage young people and listen to their perspective about what links us glocally.
This year’s edition involved 80 students in harvesting what they cherish in their neighborhoods: their stories, photographs, and interviews with the community built their local museum. Through eight participatory workshops developing visual and media literacy, students chose the themes and captured images of the territory. Then, Qual Albatroz collective led an artistic intervention on selected images, using techniques such as collage and illustration to reinterpret the participants’ photographs. Each image was accompanied by captions created by the students themselves, reflecting their personal and critical vision on human heritage, neighborhood elements, and the use of images in social media, culminating in a final exhibition seen by more than 5.000 people.
Working at a local level with young people and teachers through participatory tools and media literacy, the project invites us to look at the reality that surrounds us with a new perspective, to observe the community with a global citizenship approach: valuing the perspective of younger people and renewing community ties, while fostering critical thinking and dismantling stereotypes and disinformation at local level.
The CLAP! project is a non-formal education and media literacy approach to develop audiovisual skills and raise awareness on the topics of migration, racism, and inequalities. Focuses on training educators, young people, and future media professionals – including in vulnerable contexts – to communicate using a more inclusive and human rights framework: through an e-learning platform, CLAP! stands against prejudice, stereotypes, and social exclusion.
The CLAP! online modules, sessions, and quizzes, developed with non-formal education and participatory methodologies, are available in four languages (English, French, Portuguese, and Greek) and are free to use.
“Within the CLAP! project, we have been hosting a series of screenings and workshops with movies and audiovisual productions made by participants, partners and organizations to raise awareness of racism and fight stereotypes and prejudice in media productions. A highlight? A film about a Roma women’s association, Costume Colossal, with English subtitles and ready to be used to speak about racism, inequalities and disinformation with any audience. 4Change is also testing tools and methods with young people – building the future MIL didactic manual for GET project educators,” tells us Sandra Oliveira from the GET Portuguese partner 4Change.
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