Crazy Animals

In the workshop we held as part of the 26th Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People, the participants made simple sculptural compositions using the basic woodworking techniques. By cutting, joining, drilling, screwing and nailing they composed “crazy animals”. Thus they became acquainted with a basic raw material of human civilization through a process of play and imagination.

Through educational woodwork:

• We create woodwork with our own hands and understand the sequence “idea – design – implementation”.
• We get to know arts, techniques and ways of production from various historical periods and regions of the planet.
• We perceive ourselves as part of a historical process and realize our potential part in the production and development of human material culture.
• We participate in “collective settings” of designing and making objects for use in the classroom, schoolyard and neighbourhood.

In the context of educational craft we understand the creative process as an experimental, playfull path that leads us through materials, techniques and tools in a perception of ourselves as a whole which combines body and spirit, self and community, imitation and innovation. “New” is produced in the interaction of the producer with his environment and the material, social conditions that require but also enable creation – it is a renewal and evolution of what already exists.