LIVING, WORKING AND BUILDING CLOSE TO THE LIMITS
Some countries, some lands are concerned by natural hazard: earthquakes, volcanism, flow, landslides, hot or cold climate. These hazards are well-known but we go on living, working and building in these areas.
Some countries, some lands are concerned by unnatural hazard (pollution, radioactivity, mines, war, violence). These risks are well-known but we go on living, working and building in these areas.
Some moments in our life are in pain, in suffering, close to death and madness. Nevertheless some people go on living, working, and building in those areas, in this atmosphere.
Where are the limits of well living, of bearability, of survival? Are they the same for everyone ?
What is beyond those limits?
We can see that local customs, know how, reactions and risk behaviour are different between countries and people. But we can see also that some technical solutions, knowledge, and well being could be shared with other people. Knowledge, know how, know being could be better distributed if we wanted to progress in sustainable development and people friendship, out of commercial project.
These times of precariousness, close to the limits and beyond it inspired a lot of artists and go on like this, allowing creation and extreme behaviour.
PROJET
Creating an international broadcasting with students and teachers, searchers, philosophs, on limit signification, with applications within a lot of sphere : pain limit, equilibrium limit, bearable limits, violence limits, feeling limits, security limits, …
Creating a website (SPIP or Blog) associated with a web international workshop, common tool of meeting, sharing, increasing.
Creating an international mobile exhibition.
Motivate pupils with a deep work, meeting them on an aim useful for everyone, and most educative. : in front of danger, close to a frontier discovering and showing knowledge, and understanding how and why the other people did ; learning courage, perseverance, the strength close to danger.
The concerned spheres are Civil engineering (building), sciences (limits, thresholds, bounds, equilibrium, safety marge), social sciences (helping and living in precarious position, violence managing), ethic and politics (beyond the limits, where are limits, is there any no limits land), and arts (expressing of feelings, values, challenges).
Each teacher can work with his pupils on limits in his sphere: mathematics, technology, philosophy, politics, geography …
The school (educational team) can organise some workshops on violence, health, citizen behaviour.
Every pedagogic teams of a school can work, each in a different topic. We only have to think on limits.
EUROPEANS PARTNERSHIP
Everybody is possible, limited for Comenius on one per country
Now, our candidates are: Denmark, Austria, Pologne, Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Italia, Belgia.
EXTRAEUROPEEN PARTNERSHIP
Madagascar, Sénégal, China
PEDAGOGICAL AIMS
We can work on men differences which allow us to grow, on feeling differences and risks attached, on strength of living in difficult, precarious and desperate situations.
We can work on natural and artificial limits, obliged, inherited or chosen.
The project will increase knowledge and capacity of teachers on international partnership.
We’ll increase know how on website, on numeric workspace.
We can build a collective work
We’ll practice foreign language.
WORKSHOPS
Examples:
Preparing conferences from artists, searchers, psychologists, sociologists on limit understanding, and around.
Building scientific and technologic workshops, showing limits.
Artistic experiences on limits expressing, before limits, beyond limits.
Brainstorming on “going too far”
Conceiving and editing a welcome flyer for new pupils, with limits explanations.
TECHNICAL IMPROVEMENTS
Examples:
Learning international workshops on some particular limits.
Food limits, social allowance, stability limit.
International meeting on limits in 2011 in Strasbourg
Outdoors learning workshops on special conditions
CALENDAR
1) 2010-2011
September 2009 – January 2010: Mobilization
Creating a pedagogic team in each partner school
Searching for partners (companies, FAO, UNESCO...), even for supporting extra European partners
Collecting information from academic, lands, region, state, Europe
December 2009 in Strasbourg : previous meeting ; filling form
Sending form filled at the end of January to National European agency
February 2010 – June 2010: managing
Searching partners out of schools
Managing topics and teams within each school
2) 2010-2011 school year
September 2010 – January 2011 :
Where are the limits ?
Limits definition
February 2011 – June 2011:
How living, working, building close to the limits?
3) 2011-2012 school year
September 2011 – January 2012:
Can we go beyond the limits?
What happens?
February 2012 – June 2012:
Can we push away boundaries?
What advantages could we take in it?
Is there any unlimited systems?
Examples of limit definitions
Atterberg limits (soil physics)
Broken limit
Limit of equilibrium
Level limit
Bearable limits (of violence, of noise, of heat, …)
Limit of pressure
Using limit, ultimate limit (reinforced concrete)
Speed limit
…
Identic terms, synonyms
Bound
Level
Line
Asymptot
Topics
Philosophy, ethics
Mathematics
Physics sciences
Civil engineering
Art
