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Working with Older Volunteers in Manual Intergenerational Projects
As well as working on the project, it was
also documented on film. This task was carried
out by Uwe Wehrs who accompanied
the various projects (exchanges, workshops,
conference etc) with his camera. In addition
to this, participants contributed their
own videos and photos. The sheer volume
of material meant that a careful selection
had to take place. As the focus of the project
was organising exchange programmes
through manual and intergenerational cooperation,
this too became the core part
of the documentary. Using 9 hours of film
material and around 5000 photographs, a
documentary was created giving a real insight
into the events of the exchange project
and in particular in the manual work
subprojects. It was possible to follow all the
individual steps of the projects, from day
one in the schools to the planning session,
through to completion of the project.
This film can be integrated together with
the written documentation into the project
evaluation and should be used as a motivating
factor for future work.
A second video was also created which
is a time-based series of portraits about
goal settings by Angelika Middendorf and
Andreas Schimanski. The video portrait
25sec.-TRAMP (2008) was created as an
in-process and impulse-giving snap shot
in the framework of the TRAMP project’s
first phase. Participants of the TRAMP
workshops, taking place in Dortmund and
in Hamm respectively in September 2008
were interviewed. Representatives of different
generations and ethnic backgrounds
were asked about their individual aims con-
Videos
• Project documentation
• 25.sec-TRAMP
cerning the topics “Elderly People – Mobility
– Europe”.
The film makers described their project
as follows: “In the context of TRAMP we
will create a 25sec.-project as an artistic
video-portrait about the goals of persons,
who theoretically and practically initiate
future-oriented intergenerational models
for communication and interaction in order
to initiate a mobile and cultural exchange
among the generations. Within our project
25sec.-TRAMP we would like to draw attention
to various themes using an artistic
focus: Elderly – Mobility – Europe.
What is 25sec.? 25sec. is a video-portrait
in a 25sec.-time-format, where representatives
from different generations and
culture circles make a twenty-five-second
long statement as an expression and performance
of their goal settings. A goal is a
positive action in the near future, a dream,
a vision or utopia...
In our 25sec. project each individual
statement and portrait takes centre stage,
and we integrate each of them into a specific
sequence consisting of all filmed portraits:
the entire video-portrait 25sec.-TRAMP,
with its 25 seconds of journeys into the
worlds of imagination for the future, will
become a captured moment in a time and
place as well an artistic contribution to the
process of TRAMP.
The course and progress in our 25sec.
project contains the momentum of a temporary
social sculpture which has already
manifested itself through the process of
considerations about the quest while actively
growing through the exchange and
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