Inter­na­tion­al camp in Munich, Germany

What is a mod­ern city and how to live in it? The ques­tions may seem simple, but there are so many dif­fer­ent answers! Our small inter­na­tion­al team of the pro­ject camp in Munich tried to find and imple­ment them in 2018, 1–12 of August.

With their tutors’ help, school­chil­dren and stu­dents from Rus­sia, Ger­many and Spain developed three pro­jects aimed at improv­ing a mod­ern city (using the example of Munich):

• Pass­ive house (House, func­tion­ing independently)
• Edu­ca­tion­al pro­gram in ZOO (Edu­ca­tion­al pro­gram at a zoo),
• Nav­ig­a­tion app (Applic­a­tion to pre­vent a large num­ber of traffic jams).

10 days the guys were cre­at­ing new ideas, offer­ing ways to imple­ment them, hav­ing con­sidered the struc­tur­al, func­tion­al, fin­an­cial and socio-polit­ic­al aspects. For a visu­al rep­res­ent­a­tion of what needs to be done, each group had a tour aimed at improv­ing their pro­ject: an already exist­ing Pass­ive house in Munich, the Tier­park Hel­lab­runn (zoo) and the West­park sec­tion, where you can exam­ine in detail the busy trans­port route of the city. The res­ult of the work was a gen­er­al present­a­tion of the pro­jects, which took place at the end of the camp. Any­one could have vis­ited this event, and our audi­ence were volun­teers and guests of the cul­tur­al cen­ter GOROD where the camp was held.

The cul­tur­al and edu­ca­tion­al pro­gram of the camp included excur­sions to Munich every after­noon, as well as day-long trips out­side of the city. So we vis­ited West­park (which we had already fallen in love with), the unique Gamelan museum loc­ated in the Munich City Museum, the Ger­man Tech­nic­al Museum, the Olympic Park, the zoo, the Lud­wig and Max­imili­an Uni­ver­sity Munich, we made many walks around the city cen­ter, and also spent unfor­get­table time on the Lake Tegernsee and in Nurem­berg, vis­it­ing its main attractions.

Each day of the camp had its own theme and idea, so excur­sions and even­ing cre­at­ive activ­it­ies were related to them. They were aimed at under­stand­ing the world, dif­fer­ent cul­tures and edu­ca­tion­al sys­tems, people and the par­ti­cipants them­selves. The chil­dren were divided into two groups: the Super milky cynos­ure and the Pin­guins’ club — who plunged into a vari­ety of cre­at­ive affairs every even­ing. The most mem­or­able events were the Trust Path on the Lake Tegernsee, the open­ing of the camp, shoot­ing videos on the top­ic «We wild, but still wise» dur­ing a vis­it to the zoo, express pro­jects in West­park, pho­to­cross in the city cen­ter, unplanned swim­ming, Alena’s birth­day party, which had been pre­pared for for sev­er­al days, the time on the Isar River on the last day and clos­ing the camp.

Our whole life is one big pro­ject, and we will def­in­itely meet in August, 2019 in Munich to con­tin­ue work­ing on it all together!