PEOPLE´S MEDIA is proud to announce that the European Commission has approved our intercultural project

Creativity methods to promote European equality
how to combat poverty, disadvantages and unfairness between European countries with creative mind tools

Mo, 15th of October - Mo 22nd of October 2012

and invites you to participate in a fully financed
8-day stay in the Austrian City of
Graz
UNESCO World Heritage, Cultural Capital 2003,
UNESCO City of Design 2011

- With Accomodation in single rooms
- Full board with meals in typical austrian restaurants
- Workshops, activities and visits according to the description
- Refund of travel costs

Not to be confused with general artistical “creative methods(!)”, creativity methods aim to increase the mental productivity and the structuring of thoughts. Journalists, writers, advertisers, inventors, scientists and artists use these easy and simple methods regularly to structure texts, defeat mind blockades, get inspiration, gain alternative points of view or find solutions.

The workshop revises the wide range of creativity techniques in theory and practice (associative plays, graphic depictions, morphological matrix to Osborne, role plays, etc.).

Thematically the creativity methods will be exercised to develop ideas and perspectives that increase social, political, economical, ethnical or gender equality in the European context: Are all citizens and all member states of Europe equally considered in media? Which are the benefits or disadvantages in the systems of the different member states (welfare, justice, politics, etc.)? These and other questions will be treated in group work and discussions in which the participants will compare facts and exchange views about their respective homelands.

Finally, exercising web 2.0, the particpants will post their views and conclusions on the project website.

© 2011 Karina Liebe-Kreutzner