Workshop 1: Teema mug

1^st of November 2007:

The first workshop was meant to get to know each other and create an atmosphere of mutual trust. The workgroup introduced themselves and the Design Museum and the children got to know Esa and his show.

The puppet introduced as a first design object “Teema muki” (Teema mug) and afterwards the children designed their own mugs out of modelling clay. Furthermore they were introduced to digital media as digital camera and web cam.

Workshop 0: Experimenting

25^th of October 2007:

The pilot workshop was firstly held in order to test the video techniques and to find out about technical requirements and secondly to get familiar with the work with pre-school-aged children and to try out first workshop drafts.

The workshop took place in the afternoon at Design Museums’ permanent collections. Four children in the age of four took part. The children got to know various design objects (which were in used in later workshops) and they met puppet boy Esa. Taking pictures with digital camera and using a web-cam was tested.

Design Museum WebTV

The Musem WebTV concept was born from the idea of making the “Esa ja esineet” workshops available to children in kindergartens outside of Helsinki. Since it is impossible to physically take the puppet show to kindergartens distant from the Design Museum we thought to make them freely available on video support to be distributed on the internet.

So we created Design Museum's channel on YouTube.

The Design Museum will also make available guidance materials to help the educators at kindegartens to run the workshops themselves. These materials might be available at LeMill.

The WebTV channel can also be used to collect feedback from the workshops. YouTube allows for “video-responses” to be posted back to the original videos. This introduces a very interesting possibility of getting feedback from the far away kindergartens, since the educators could submit videos of the works and fantasy stories created by their children.

Team

At Design Museum Helsinki:
Leena Svinhufvud (production coordination)
Harri Kivilinna (exhibition designer)
Hanna Kapanen (workshop guide)
Anna Louhelainen (workshop guide)
Mirjam Krafft(workshop coordinator)
Elina Eerola (texts, photos, workshop guide)
Susanna Vakkari (texts)
Jukka Savolainen (exhibition collaboration, information/media)
Merja Vilhunen (image archives, internet solutions)
Selection of objects: Leena Svinhufvud, Elina Eerola, Marianne Aav, Harri Kivilinna, Jukka Savolainen


At Media Lab Helsinki:
Mariana Salgado (production coordination and designer)
Andrea Botero (expert advisor)
Diana De Sousa (media designer)
Tommi Jauhiainen (computing support)
Mikko Laitinen and Ilpo Kari (video support)
Atte Timonen (software designer)
Lily Diaz (expert advisor)

External collaborator:
Matti Luhtala/TunnelVision (sound designer)

And our special thanks go to:
Pekka Salonen, Tuukka Teponoja, Vennu Nivalainen and Ville Tikkanen all from Media Lab.

The active collaboration from 9 children and 2 teachers from a kindergarten in Helsinki, who made possible the first workshop serie "Esa and the Objects".

We want to specially thanks to Rody Van Gemert that organized with us the "Sound of objects" workshop. Thanks to the guitar students that brought creative ideas and stories to the objects. Special thanks to sound designer Matti Luhtala for helping with the edition of the sound from the workshop and the concert. Thanks to Petteri Laukkanen, Sound Designer, from Suomen kansallisooppera that lend us the microphones.

Thanks to Outi-Maria Takkinen (Titi) and Nana Smulovitz-Mulyana from Nuoren Voima Liito and Annantalo for bringing your students and ideas to our workshop serie: Odes of Objects. Many thanks to the participants that wrote Odes for the objects in the exhibition and allow us to publish them in the Interactive Map.