Green Club: The Circular Economy as Play and Creative Making - Webinar
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Online registration is required.
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Greek with some interventions in English.
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Secondary education teachers.
How can circular economy, environmental data, sustainability, and recycling be transformed into play, creativity, and neighborhood change? Join a club that is changing the here and now.
Photo: Unit Lab
Knitwear woven out of plastic bags, pottery made out of sawdust, renewable wind power generated in schools, shelters for local stray animals, and many more creative ideas, gathered together on a platform, are changing the way schoolchildren and teachers understand circular economy, recycling, and citizenship.
The creative group Unit Lab invites us to a webinar on Green Club, a club that is open to all and acts as a meeting point for teachers and schoolchildren to share their ideas, projects, and data about circular economy, offering them tools for environmental data collection, the opportunity to share their ideas, as well as access to a wide range of resources with which to enrich their classes.
Photo: Unit Lab
Participants will be given a virtual tour on the platform and learn about the projects, and afterwards they will have the chance to participate in one of the two hands-on taste workshops with the guidance of Unit Lab, using everyday materials that can be found at every house.
Two workshops will be introduced: Weaving with plastic bags, and DIY Solar Light. Participants can follow along with Weaving with plastic bags. They will need the following materials:
- 1-2 plastic bags
- An A4 piece of brown cardboard
- Scissors
- Pencil
- Ruler
The Green Club platform
As part of their S+T+ARTS residency hosted by Onassis Stegi, Unit Lab is exploring how circular economy can be introduced in the Greek school curriculum. During a pilot after-school Green Club in May, designers and experts ran 6 different workshops spanning multiple sustainability subjects. Through these hands-on, practical workshops, schoolchildren explored circular futures in their own context making wind turbines, environmental data sensors, upcycled objects, and shelters for animals.
In September 2022, Unit Lab conducted a workshop for teachers as part of the 3rd Panhellenic Scientix Conference for STEM Education in Athens. In November 2022, Unit Lab traveled to the ZKM-Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe (Germany), where they conducted two workshops in the context of the :Retool exhibition, part of the S+T+ARTS Regional Centers: Repairing the Present program.
For Unit Lab, the goal of the workshops is to familiarize schoolchildren and teachers with their projects about circular economy, so that they will keep using the Green Club platform in their educational practice even after the completion of the workshop.
