FUTURE TRACES
A NUANS workshop
in collaboration with The Dunham Trust
and
The Orchards School
Acre Hall Primary School
Eldridge Primary School
Lime Tree Academy
Manchester UK
Identity includes the idiosyncratic things that make a person unique. Personal identity is a construct which one continually builds up during the whole life. What you can do and how you see yourself today is made up of what you have experienced in the past. The other part consists of what is still upcoming. Our personal goals and our dreams of the future. Our human identity is located somewhere between the early traces of cavemen in volcano ashes and the future footprints after the colonization of Mars.
How and where would I like to learn? What is important to me? What else do I need? And what should I leave? School is a temporary station that you pass in the course of your life and at the same time it affects your character forever. Particularly important is the relationship between I and We, personal identity and social identity. How can I make a personal contribution to the group, how can I leave my individual imprint?
During a one-week workshop every student will be a superhero equipped with a special force that he/she uses to create his/her individual trace. Similar to the famous X-Men in the movie the students are supposed to turn special needs into special gifts, to discover these special forces and to use them to develop an individual language.
