Museum goes urban space: Discovering the environment creatively
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How the Ethnological Museum is revitalising environmental education with creativity and passion
How do museums actually reach people who have had little to do with environmental and climate education so far? And how can we ensure that they not only listen, but really get involved and enjoy themselves? That’s exactly what our discussion event on the “Come together!” project is all about.
Since 2023, the Ethnological Museum has been working on the project, which focuses in particular on activities with women who have experienced displacement, especially from Ukraine and Bosnia. Together, we want to use creative and low-threshold formats to create a space where environmental and climate issues come to life and invite exchange.
Together with our project partners, we have developed workshops, urban space actions, and encounters that combine cultural knowledge, art, and science. The museum contributes exciting environmental ethnological perspectives, because our relationship with nature is as diverse as human cultures.
We also drew inspiration from artists who have opened up new ways of thinking with their interventions in the museum. The result is formats that not only inform, but also encourage participation and creativity.
So, are you interested in fresh, creative environmental education that inspires and connects? Then discuss your ideas with us—we look forward to hearing from you!
Schedule
4:30–5:00 pm DJ Scampylama Sound
5:00–6:00 pm Theatre Education Session on the Topic of Environment
6:00–7:00 pm Talk
7:00–7:30 pm Musical Closing with DJ Scampylama Sound
Participants
Begzada Alatovic came to Germany as a refugee from the Bosnian town of Modrica with her young son during the Yugoslav Wars in the early 1990s.
Today, she works for the non-profit organization Südost Europa Kultur e.V. as the manager of the Rosenduft intercultural community garden and also as a language-mediating social counselor.
As part of the community garden, she supports Bosnian refugee women in designing this garden together with different people from the social environment and helps them to process their war experiences and work together with different people on a voluntary basis and, in the truest sense of the word, put down roots in our society. She is also involved as a contemporary witness of the Yugoslavian war in various institutions and projects.
Since its founding in 1992, the non-profit association südost Europa Kultur e.V. has combined social work and culture into an overall concept. All activities serve the goals of tolerance, international understanding and integration, peace, and democracy. The work is explicitly directed against nationalism and racism. The association offers social counseling, outreach social work, various therapeutic services (group therapy and therapeutic self-help groups), sponsorships in the form of monetary or material donations, low-threshold education and employment opportunities, youth projects, and family assistance, and focuses primarily on immigrants from Southeast Europe. The association raises awareness among authorities about migration-specific issues and traumatized refugees and maintains an intercultural garden as a therapeutic measure for traumatized individuals and their friends. The association’s projects have been and continue to be funded by various European funds, the Berlin Senate and district administrations, the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, the Federal Foreign Office, and many others.
The association and its employees have received several awards: the Louise Schröder Medal, the Moses Mendelssohn Prize, and the Integration Prize of the Überbrücken Foundation for Begzada Alatovic.
Dr. phil. Patrick Helber studied history and political science in Tübingen and Dublin and received his doctorate in modern and contemporary history in Heidelberg in 2014. His book ‘Dancehall und Homophobie’ (Dancehall and Homophobia) deals with postcolonial perspectives on the history and culture of Jamaica. He lives in Berlin, works at the Ethnological Museum as a research assistant in the field of education and outreach, and hosts a radio show on Caribbean popular culture. In addition, Patrick Helber has been DJing reggae, ska and dancehall on vinyl under the name Scampylama Sound since 2003.
Roksolana Ludyn, born on October 11, 1986, in Ukraine, lives in Berlin and has been working since 2022 in various fields of museum education, including at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Humboldt Forum, and the Humboldt Laboratory. She designs, organizes, and implements educational and outreach programs, with a particular focus on socially inclusive and intercultural mediation. Previously, she worked as an educational staff member in children’s and youth museums and brings extensive experience in theater pedagogy and creative training formats. She studied Cultural Studies at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.