For high-school students
In view of the weather station of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC), students explore the human influence on the climate both globally and locally, with experiments as their tool. Students also explore how the use of renewable energy sources has been evolved. This educational program aims to teach students the principles of bioclimatic design and how they find application both in the design and in the day-to-day operation of the SNFCC.
Design: Dr I. Koletsis, Dr Elissavet Galanaki, Physicists - Meteorologists, Research associates of the National Observatory of Athens Implementation: Dr I. Koletsis, Vera Nomikou, Konstantinos Villiotis, Physicists - Meteorologists, Research associates of the National Observatory of Athens
Tuesdays and Thursdays at 09.00 and 11.00, 90’
For Middle & Highschool Students
In nature's ecosystems, a balance is maintained between the organisms that make them up and the energy used. What would the future Athens look like if we saw it as an urban ecosystem? Could it be fueled by the energy of its population? What if waste could be a new raw material? The students, through a fast-paced design workshop, learn about the sustainable ecosystem of the SNFCC, about the sustainability practices followed worldwide and are invited to envision, design and build the model of the Athens ecosystem of the future.
Design: Andrianna Nassou, designer / Christina Nassou, educator Implementation: Spyros Zygouros, educator / Christina Tsinisizeli, visual artist 1, 8, 15, 22 February 2024
For students from 3rd through 9th Grades
How can I print a photo with the help of the sun? Can I make art with nature and create my own message about climate change?
The children will take part in an art workshop, and they will create their own unique blueprint work.
Focusing on the theme of sustainability, we draw inspiration from works of contemporary forms of sustainable art or art that encourages discussion about sustainability, while through experiential visual actions we will discover the human-nature connection through the lens of art, passing our own message against climate change. crisis.
The goal of the program is to raise the awareness of students as members of our society about the real effects on the planet, proposing a green future.
Design-Implementation: Christina Tsinisizeli, visual artist Mondays and Fridays at 9.00 and 11.00, 90’
Through an interactive tour in the Stavros Niarchos Park, students will get acquainted with the special architecture and function of the different green spaces of SN Park, will also discover the range of events that have been taking place during the operation years of the SNFCC and critically view the natural landscape as a dynamic "scene" of cultural activities, artistic meetings, social dialogue and leisure routes. Through international examples of artistic use of natural public space, students are inspired by the connection between Art - Nature - Society and design and propose in working groups sight specific "green events" for that special year we are in.
Design/Implementation: Kalliopi Koutroumpi, museologist-museum educator Implementation: Evi Kasketi, educator / Eirini Gozadinou, art educator-animateur
Every last Wednesday and Friday of the month, at 09.00 and 11.00 (December excluded), 90’
For fourth-grade to sixth-grade Primary school students and first-grade and second-grade Highschool students
School teams edit and publish their own small handmade magazine, a fanzine. The purpose of this workshop is students to get acquainted with this type of magazines, the culture of fanzine and the handmade publications and become editors, illustrators, photographers, graphic designers themselves! Using analog and digital means, children are encouraged to present SNFCC in artistic terms, to record creatively their experience from their visit, projecting through the fanzine pages their own “collective” view. The fanzine has been designed and curated by visual artist and professor at the University of Thessaly, Alexandros Psychoulis.
Design-Implementation: Very Young Contemporary Art, Yiannis Isidorou, artist
For third-grade Ηighschool students and senior Ηighschool students
Students get to know the process of producing a standalone edition (one shot zine) in the form of an artbook. The main content of this artbook is the identity of each student but also the collective identity of the teenagers. By identinty, meaning the imaginary projection of one-self in the present, in this case translated in artistic terms. Who am I? The question that students will be asked to answer through their visual representations will be "who am I?" or rather "who do I feel I am?". Utilizing mainly analog means and archival material of the SNFCC, the students manage to present personal, but also group narratives in an experimental mood. They come in contact with techniques for setting up a handmade zine, special printing techniques but also with the most basic ways of bookbinding.
For 1st-6th grade and middle school students
Based on the commitment of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center to be fully accessible and open to everyone and using experiential discussion and open dialogue as tools, the representatives of the Association of Social Responsibility for Children and Youth (S.K.E.P.) with disability seek to change students' perspective on diversity in a simple and vivid way. The aim of the program is to acquaint the students with the concept of accessibility and treating the school as a place of equality and socialization of young people.
Design-Implementation: Association of Social Responsibility for Children and Youth (S.K.E.P.)
25/10, 1/11, 15/11, at 09.30 (120')
For Junior High School and High School students
Using sprays, markers and their imagination, students turn into contemporary artists, in order to create Graffiti and Doodles! They get introduced to street art as a form of creative expression, distinguishing it from vandalism.
Design - Implementation: Sdeviano
Mondays and Wednesdays, 9:30 και 11:00 (75’)
The school programs of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center land in the classroom! Discover courses on education, culture and sustainability, specifically designed for each grade level.
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) seeks to actively participate in school life and is always looking for new ways to support students and teachers. Thus, the SNFCC Class was created; an educational platform that enables teachers to select integrated school curricula in digital form and implement them in their own classroom, using a projector, or through distance learning, with a shared screen.
Through the Teen Volunteers program, students aged 14-18 are given the opportunity to participate in the Volunteer Program, collaborate with the SNFCC team, become acquainted with a modern cultural institution, and with the responsibilities of the Visitors Experience group, develop their communication skills, interact and have fun!
