Program of activities on the key topics of art and technological culture, artistic practice and the dissemination of art and creation in educational centers

Addressed to: Secondary education

Duration: Approximately 2 hours (1 hour for the workshop, 1 hour for the guided tour)

Groups: maximum of 50 students

Schedule: Wednesday to Friday between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

The artists Ángeles Angulo and Román Torre (Rotor Studio) have created the biome of a forest at LABoral Art Center, inspired by Ursula K.Le Guin’s book The Name of the World is Forest. We invite you to explore this fantastic world, to which curiosity and imagination take us in the context of the Asturian forests. As in the novel, this biome makes us reflect on concepts such as feminism, ecology, empathy and our own planet.

For this workshop we have created a role-playing game inspired by the book on which the work is based. We will play in a room that recreates the fictional scenario and we will give you the props so that you can live a more participatory experience.

The rules and monitoring of the game imitate those of a role-playing game, there are different teams, a description sheet with the characteristics of each player, a game director or narrator, a dice that will decide our fortune and a tour of the board in in which each group goes through the different boxes where they find tests and questions. During the course of the game we will reflect on ethical issues and acquire information about ecology and the environment.

This workshop will be complemented with a guided tour that will allow us to discover the highlights of the different exhibitions as well as helping to better understand them.

Goals:

– Discover, experiment and interpret different forms of communication and representation, in addition to approaching new artistic and technological formats in an interactive way.

– Acquire specific codes and techniques of different artistic languages ​​to use them for expressive and communicative purposes, promoting the acquisition of aesthetic values ​​and developing sensitivity.

– Encourage the development of imagination while enjoying this immersive experience in this new world.

– Reflect on environmental problems, our planet and the way we behave on it.

– Carrying out a characterization exercise, practicing empathy and the feeling of occupying the skin of another person, whether real or fictitious.

– Relate to other people by participating in group activities with flexibility and responsibility, promoting dialogue, collaboration and communication.