THE STORY OF ME – IN OBJECTS

The experiment stimulates the student’s reflections on what physical items say about their identity. It invites the students to think critically on their own interests and values in life, and how they communicate in non-verbal ways to others. By making a joint exhibition of the installations the students learn how to communicate their own stories – from a personal to a more general communicative level.

This experiment was done at Nordre School in Viborg, Denmark, and involved two classes at year 6. It was a part of a series of workshops involving four primary teachers, an external visual artists and a museum educator from Viborg City Museum. The overall theme of the workshops was ‘the meaning and expression of identity’. The workshops were a combination of different learning processes and development of skills in artistic expression, communication and curating.