HandyKids

HandyKids aims to:

• develop art pedagogic experiences and methods in workshops through affording sustainable materials and tools in the subject Arts and Crafts, in cooperation with students, pupils and teachers.
• design functional and sustainable workshops for students that represent physical, “hands on” experiences direct in materials with tools.
• explore science materials as composites (bio-based, reuse/cycle) and renewable resources in different sustainable workshops.

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  Sustainability and loving care for our common vulnerable nature are highly valued in the subject of arts and crafts. Embodied learning is tightly connected to the exploration of sustainable materials and the skill “to be handy”. Research shows that there is a lot of thinking going on through the physical and “handy” experiences.

  Embodied cognition proposes that human beings understand the physical world and the environment through interacting with natural and cultural objects, materials and tools. In parallel to this embodied learning, they also discover the terms connected to the objects, the materials and the tools. The real-world concrete experiences are intertwined with the abstract awareness.

  In the aesthetic learning processes, there are not only the human beings who are active participants. Also the objects, materials and tools “come to life” when they are in use by the human beings. They got agency (Barad, 2007). An aesthetic learning process can be understood as actings (verb) and cuttings. The boundaries and characteristics of these events develop new agentic cuts. Such processes may lead to new understandings that continue, hopefully throughout life.

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  Solveig Åsgard Bendiksen

  Associate Professor

  Email: solveig.a.bendiksen@nord.no

  

  Rune Hjelen

  Assistant Professor

  Email: rune.hjelen@nord.no

  

  Ninni Anita Rotmo Olsen

  Assistant Professor

  Email: ninni.a.olsen@nord.no

  

  Tomas Tomasson Punde

  Tomas Tomasson Punde was born and raised in a reindeer herder family. He has always been interested in Sami duedtie and culture. Ever since the age of 10, he has worked as a Sami handcraft designer in duedtie.

  
  

  

  Yolanda Muñoz Rey

  Professor Yolanda Muñoz Rey has a degree in Fine Arts and a degree in Art History from the University of Seville. She has a master’s degree in research and Innovation in Education from the UNED, and a Master's degree in Historical-Archaeological Heritage and a Cum Laude Doctor in Art and Humanities from the University of Cádiz.

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  • Nord University
  • Sea EU
  • University of Cádiz
  • Norske Skog, Skogn
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  From May 27 to 31, the Handykids project will present five different workshops with a mix of researchers and teachers from Nord University and Cadiz University.

  Workshop programme (pdf)