MiniTOOLS Gallery
Local Shopping Habits Map - IES Poeta Julián Andúgar / Mercedes Solé
It aims to familiarize individuals with the city’s commercial districts and shopping patterns, as well as to assess businesses offering sustainable or locally sourced products. The final outcome is an audio guide featuring stops at the most sustainable and interesting shops or establishments for any visitor.
Keywords: local shopping, commercial patterns, sustainable products, sustainable shops, audio guide, familiarity, shopping habits.
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Mapping the internal landscape (personality) - Schule Kopp2
It connects pupils with their own inner world, to make it visible, and thus, connect with other pupils in the classroom. Outcomes include posters featuring the contour of each pupil, accompanied by written comments and collages on personal questions. Optionally, other materials can be produced, like film material (capturing some presentations made by the students) or sound material (containing interviews conducted with some pupils).
Keywords: inner world, inner landscape, visibility, personal questions, connection, presentations, interviews, students contour.
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Cooperative games for creating a common ground - Schule Kopp2
It consists of two games. They integrate all students equally and focus on nonverbal communication. They foster team spirit and skills such as perception, proactivity, and creativity. Additionally, the outcomes include photos from the game sessions and the development of social skills.
Keywords: equality, non-verbal body language, team spirit, perception, proactivity, creativity, social skills, integration.
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Landscapes of personal history - Schule Kopp2
It enhances the ability to articulate one's personal story to others and to connect interpersonally. It also endorses positive identities and promotes team building. The outcome includes autobiographical drawings with the chosen principles attached to them.
Keywords: personal history, interpersonal connection, positive identities, team building, autobiographical drawings, personal landscapes.
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Connecting the school community using interviews - Schule Kopp2
It connects students with their surrounding community on a personal level. They develop self-confidence, verbal, and teamwork abilities. Students can be integrated into school life and are an active part of the school community. Outcomes are laminated interviewee profiles (protocol plus picture), profile game and interactive exposition.
Keywords: surroundings connection, community and individuals, self-confidence, teamwork, active participation, profile game, interviewee profile, exposition.
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Getting in touch with community stakeholders - Schule Kopp2
It establishes a connection between the students and the surrounding landscape by using collaborative learning tools. The local-economic aspect and the ecological aspect will be explored by the children. Outcomes are completed feedback forms and pictures.
Keywords: surrounding landscape, connection, collaborative, local-economy, ecology, feedback forms, stakeholders, community, learning tools.
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Connecting with others through celebration - Schule Kopp2
It enhances positive memories, participation, and proactivity in students. Community making beyond the classroom, including parents and stakeholders into school life, celebrating experiences, learnings and achievements obtained during the school year. Outcome is a lead event (celebration), with invitations, exposed materials and pictures as well as an interactive program.
Keywords: celebration, connection, positive memories, participation, proactivity, school life, community bonds, experiences, invitation, learnings, achievements.
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Mapping a Landscape - Istituto Comprensivo Luigi Galvani
It allows students to familiarize themselves with the surrounding landscape of the school by using the mapping tool and applying the “Cooperative Learning Together” technique. Outcomes are a common sensorial map and common reports of the experience.
Keywords: surrounding landscape, landscape familiarization, mapping tool, sensorial map, cooperative, learning together, common reports.
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Storytelling digital map - Istituto Comprensivo Luigi Galvani
It transitions from a collaborative map to a digital storytelling map. Outcomes are written reports, posters, videos, photos, drawings, school events and exhibition of students’ works. Additionally, conferences and meetings with the parents or people from the local community to explain the project and students’ outcomes.
Keywords: transition, collaborative map, digital storytelling map, students´works exhibition, conferences, parents’ meetings, local community.
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Common Mapping for Transitions - Istituto Comprensivo Luigi Galvani
It provides students with the knowledge and skills to understand, challenge, and engage with the cultural heritage of the district surrounding their school, empowering them to assume a role as responsible and active citizens. Outcomes are an analysis of the sensorial and informative map, empathy towards the interviewed people, and opened minds to new scenarios of possible future changes, students’ proposals and videos.
Keywords: cultural heritage, school surroundings, empowerment, active citizenship, responsibility, sensorial map, informative map, empathy, future scenarios, changes, students´proposals, common mapping.
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Mapping Ourselves - Istituto Comprensivo Luigi Galvani
It explores students’ personal inner landscapes, understanding the landscape in which we live and gain insight into our inner selves. Outcomes are a video with teachers - students interviews, a poster, and reports about the overall experience.
Keywords: personal landscape, inner landscape, inner self insight, interviews, posters and reports, mapping.
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The colors of the ground - Cuatronaranjos Murcia Active School
It connects the students with the landscape, through the collection of soil from different parts of the region and bringing it to the educational centre, in order to prepare pigments that will be used in an artistic action. The outcome is a mural following the colours and the shapes of the surroundings. The aim of the action was to create a deep connection between the school and its surroundings, creating a harmonious blend with the landscape.
Keywords: landscape connection, soil collection, region, pigments, mural, colors, shapes, surroundings and school, landscape blending.
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A piece of sun - Cuatronaranjos Murcia Active School
It fosters connections with the environment, tradition, and culture, as well as to learn about and engage with sustainable projects in the surroundings. The ultimate goal was to create a vibrant map of the school’s environs. A lively map is conceived as a comprehensive representation that encompasses knowledge, heritage, emotions, tradition, actions, sustainability, etc.
Keywords: environment connections, tradition, culture, heritage, sustainability, surroundings, school´s environs map, representation, emotions.
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Expanded Garden - Irene Lucas & Christoph Euler
It conducts an art research focusing on issues such as food sovereignty, nutrition in relation to energy self-sufficiency and urban planning.Using the model of the 15-minutes city, cooperative games will be employed to design oversized mappings with the active participation of all involved. Outcomes are initiatives outside the school building, reflecting and making visible the potential of art education and intervention in the field of social-ecological environmental awareness for the energy transition.
Keywords: food sovereignty, nutrition, energy self-sufficiency, urban planning, 15 minutes city, cooperative games, mapping, participation, art education, outside the school, expansion, social-ecological awareness, energy transition, garden.
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Urbodrom - Charlotte Fleischmann
It creates a collective map of the surroundings by identifying and exchanging information about significant places and their functions. Outcomes are a new way of understanding people’s varied perceptions of space and recognizes the complexity of their landscapes, as well as stimulates engagement, cooperation, critical thinking, social inclusion, and successful living in peaceful societies.
Keywords: collective map, surroundings, significant places, space perceptions, landscape complexity, engagement, cooperation, social inclusion, critical thinking.
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From vision to mission - Charlotte Fleischmann
It creates a collective mapping for visualizing a space and initiate a phase of self-reflection, each participant shares their vision for the area, and as a group, proposes a mission: What steps can we take to move towards our envisioned outcome? The outcomes could be a concrete mission for the discussed place,understanding the diverse needs of different people. In general, the dynamic stimulates engagement, cooperation and critical thinking.
Keywords: collective mapping, space visualization, self-reflection, mission proposal, place, people needs, engagement, cooperation, critical thinking.
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Creating a collective audiovisual work about the social/emotional perception of the landscape - Joaquín Lisón y Conchi Meseguer
It involves creating a collective audiovisual work focused on the social and emotional perception of the landscape. The outcomes include one or several audiovisual works, accompanied by a participatory community event.
Keywords: collective, audiovisual work, social perception, emotional perception, emotional landscape, community participation.
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The Emotional Relationship with the Landscape - Joaquín Lisón y Conchi Meseguer
It explores and deepens the emotional awareness between students and the landscape, supplementing intellectual knowledge with emotional awareness, and fostering a sense of unity and teamwork among students by promoting empathy and assertive, respectful communication. The outcome is a co-created landscape metaphor showing the emotional connection between students and their landscapes.
Keywords: emotional relationship, emotional landscape, intellectual knowledge, emotional awareness, unity, teamwork, empathy, assertive communication, responsible communication, co-creation, landscape metaphor, landscape students´connection.
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Interacting Life! - Michaela Martinek / May Reda (student)
It consists of a facade for the worm hotel and the construction of two prototypes. The goal is to design a facade that reflects the life of the worms and highlights their importance in the conversion process. The outcomes are a facade for a wormhotel to interact inside and outside with human life and humus, the development of new manual skills and the inclusion of nature in a design product.
Keywords: worm hotel, interaction, prototypes, animal life, hummus, conversion process, façade, inside-outside, human life, nature inclusion, design with nature.
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Taste the salt with flowers - Michaela Martinek / Golnaz Walamotamed (student)
It connects landscape and gastronomy, it means a cultural landscape component that provides a sensory and visually pleasing experience that celebrates the harmonious fusion of nature, and culinary arts. Beyond the tangible product, the final outcome also encompasses the intangible benefits and experiences, including the acquired knowledge about edible flowers, culinary techniques and traditions.
Keywords: landscape gastronomy, cultural landscape, sensorial experience, nature, flowers, salt, culinary arts, tangible – intangible benefits, edible, traditions and techniques.
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Visual dictionary “A casico hecho” - IES Poeta Julián Andúgar - Andrés Martínez Soler
It recognizes and values Spanish dialectal varieties, particularly the local one, by exploring their origins, historical development, and sociolinguistic aspects across oral, written, and multimodal forms.Outcomes are the understanding of their own historical, cultural, and linguistic heritage, as well as, the development of a linguistic map showcasing the vocabulary employed in the huerta, established via a sociolinguistic survey, and the initiation of projects aimed at promoting the usage of the Murcian dialect.
Keywords: Spanish dialects, Murcian dialect, origins, historical development, sociolinguistic aspects, multimodal forms, cultural heritage, linguistic heritage, linguistic map, vocabulary, survey, dialect usage, visual dictionary.
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Lost Paths of Transhumance - IES Poeta Julián Andúgar - Miguel Pallarés, Joaquín Lisón and Conchi Meseguer
It studies and connects with the forgotten landscape of transhumance in the municipality of Santomera through the creation of a guided documentary. The outcome is a docufiction film and its presentation to society.
Keywords: transhumance, forgotten landscape, Santomera, guided documentary, docufiction film, presentation, society, lost paths.
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Mobile Pictures - Tatia Skhirtladze, Christiane Hapt and Isis Várkonyi
It engages in practical, real-world activities using cellphones, actively applying concepts and skills rather than passively receiving information. This approach enhances understanding and retention. The outcome is an improvised storytelling and visual narrative.
Keywords: cellphone, mobile pictures, active participation, passive participation, understanding and retention, storytelling, visual narrative, real-world.
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Spa_Low_Sky - Rolf Laven
It remodels the street space of Mittelgasse and Spalowskygasse, which is frequented by over 500 children every day. The focus is on redesigning the area in a way that is more citizen-centered in order to facilitate creative activities and art encounters. The methods proposed by the EDULANDS for Transition Project can strengthen relationships between students through shared learning and experiences outside of school. These approaches, which emphasize communication and creative exchange, can also foster stronger connections between teachers and students.
Keywords: street space, redesign areas, children, citizen-centered, creative activities, art encounter, relationships, shared learning, outside experiences, communication, teachers-students connection, school participation.
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Cinema Forum - Joaquín Lisón
It addresses the socio-ecological crisis in the Mar Menor, Europe’s largest saltwater lagoon, triggered by the DANAS of 2019. The educational approach involves exploring the concept of environmental refugees through the film «Sofía Volverá» which runs parallel to the Popular Legislative Initiative for legal recognition of the Mar Menor. The outcome is a film that integrates disciplines and enables students to cultivate a comprehensive understanding of the intricate issues concerning the Mar Menor, fostering a multidimensional approach to problem-solving.
Keywords: socio-ecological crisis, cinema, saltwater lagoon, Mar Menor, Europe, environmental refugees, legal recognition, film, disciplines integration, multidimensional approach, problem-solving.
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Role-playing - Paola Branduini
It connects the students with the actors who exert influence on the landscape, interpreting the corresponding role and thus understanding the scope, perspectives, and necessary mediations to reach an agreement that benefits all parties involved. Above all, promote the safeguarding of the cultural and natural heritage of the landscape under study. Outcome is a group map with opinions and strategies for mediation and intervention in the landscape derived from the game.
Keywords: landscape actors, actors influence, participants connection, mediation, intervention, benefits, cultural heritage, natural heritage, group map, role-playing game.
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How old is this landscape? - Paola Branduini
It recognizes the historical tangible permanencies of a landscape and aims to determine its age, through the co-construction of landscape evolution maps (diachronic) and of landscape permanencies (synchronic). The outcome is the co-construction of many diachronic landscape maps and one synchronic landscape map.
Keywords: historical permanence, landscape age, diachronic and synchronic map, landscape map, co-construction.
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Sensory perception of the landscape - Paola Branduini
It analyzes the landscape through the senses and the sensations it evokes in us. The outcome is a map that relates the perceptions of the senses within the physical space.
Keywords: sensory perception, senses, evocation of perceptions, mapping, physical space.
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Creating podcasts about the local landscape - IES Poeta Julián Andúgar / Miguel Pallares
It creates an audio guide through a mobile application that allows anyone, residents or not of Santomera, to discover the historical, linguistic, commercial, and artistic heritage of the locality. Outcomes are the audio guide to discover the historical, linguistic, commercial, and artistic heritage of the Santomera and the students’ participation in local radio programs to promote the project.
Keywords: local landscape, podcast, audio guide, mobile application, Santomera, historical heritage, linguistic heritage, artistic heritage, commercial heritage, students' participation, local radio program.
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Analysis of historical maps - IES Poeta Julián Andúgar / Miguel Pallares
It proposes mental maps of what students consider relevant to the landscape of the municipality of Santomera, in a visually and orally coherent manner. The outcome is a mental map to guide students in approaching the concept of landscape and helping them understand their perception of it.
Keywords: historical maps, mental maps, Santomera Municipality, landscape concept, landscape perception, students’ analysis.
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Built a solar cooker - organize a Solarcantina for your Neighborhood - Irene Lucas / Christoph Euler
It designs a learning experience dealing with STEAM educational frameworks (including environmental awareness, ranging from low to high tech), as well as to improve group dynamics and foster community building in the schoolyard (through activities such as eating together and collaborative working settings). The outcomes are a self-made solar cooker, a self-made solar meal and a collective meal as a moment of being together and celebration of the work done.
Keywords: solar cooker, solar energy, STEAM, environmental awareness, low tech, high tech, group dynamics, community bonds, collaborative working, self-made solar meal, collective meal, celebration, neighborhood, learning experience.
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