HEARME
Bringing youth and museums together
Duration: 1 June 2016 – 30 October 2017
Budget: 311.505,83 EUR
Lead partner: National Gallery of Slovenia
Partners: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Gallery of Matica srpska, Innovacion Social Emprendedores Sociales
Programme: Creative Europe, Culture sub-programme
Priorities: audience development; capacity building: training and education
Main goals:
- Build deeper relationships between the youth and partner museums;
- Capacity building: develop skills of museum educators for an open concept of youth workshops;
- Prepare programming based on youth's participation, and according to their expectations, wishes, and needs;
- Incorporate advanced methodologies into museum programming;
- Audience development: modernize youth-specific programmes.
Description: the partners developed a new kind of workshop that was based on LEGO® Serious Play®, Design Thinking, gamification, and open discussion on art. In the workshops, young people were presented with tasks and questions they answered by building models out of toy bricks that told their story and helped share their perspective on specific works of art.
Results: During the project, we trained 23 HearMe mentors, organized 665 youth workshops and hosted 8942 pupils, 150 university students and 640 teachers. 39 cultural organizations and 119 experts participated in the training workshops and the final conference.