10. blog post ENG

Explaining what social innovation means to us through animation

You can check our animations on our Vimeo or Facebook page

During the animation workshop with Kinoskola we were divided into two groups and everybody in the group decided what they were going to film. The topic was social innovation. Basically we had to make a video, that would explain what social innovation means to us. So we ended up with two beautiful animations which are on our Vimeo account and Facebook page.  

What I love about art is that most of the time you don’t know what the author meant to say by making it. Everybody who observes the piece has different associations with colours and objects, everybody uses their imagination and it makes them think about things they wouldn’t expect, and come up with ideas they wouldn't come to their minds without being inspired by art. This, in my opinion, applies more to modern art which is more abstract. That’s great, right? Because the author doesn’t just create something beautiful, she/he makes the people THINK and produce something of their own - an IDEA. 

Graffiti is a modern form of art. Not acknowledged by everybody yet, though! Since it’s on the streets it’s the best way to get art to the public - it’s always out there. One of the most known graffiti artist is probably Banksy. He is an England based artist, political activist and nobody knows who he really is. Graffiti is against the law in many countries, so he uses a nickname to sign his works. I wouldn’t like to speak for him and write what I think he wanted to say with his work. I rather want to show some of it, that speaks for itself.

When our workshop groups faced the task of making an animation or a short video explaining what social innovation means to them, one of them decided the best way to show it was in the means of graffiti. Graffiti is a young form of art and even though not everybody is in love with it, it helps to express a message. So our group got right to it and made this awesome video! What do you think these young animation amateurs wanted to say? As the authors, we would like to drag your attention to the principle we wanted to share with you through this video: when everybody comes and adds something of their own - that’s how a great idea evolves! That’s exactly what Social Innovation is to us - modern, outgoing and solving a problem. But to solve a problem you have to put your minds together!

What was your first idea, when you saw our video? Maybe just like graffiti and other forms of art it made you think about something else? Maybe you came up with a social innovation already? We are waiting for you input!

- Polly

This blog is a part of the project Empowering Youth To Become Social Innovators, realised under the Erasmus+ partnership programme. The project is coordinated by a Czech NGO DYNAMA, z.s., seated in Brno and an Estonian NGO Youth Club Active, seated in Tallinn. This project contributes to the development of non formal learning of the youth.

10. blog post CZ

Vysvětlení významu sociální inovace skrz animaci

Naše animace si můžete prohlédnout na Vimeo nebo Facebook

Během semináře animování, který pro nás udělala Kinoškola, jsme se rozdělili do dvou skupin a každá se rozhodla, co natočí. Téma bylo společné – sociální inovace. V podstatě šlo o to udělat video, které by vysvětlilo, co pro nás sociální inovace znamená. Nakonec každá skupina vytvořila krásnou animaci - obě  můžete najít na našem účtu na Vimeo a na naší FB stránce.

Na umění miluju to, že po většinu času nevíš, co autor svou tvorbou myslel. Každý, kdo dílo pozoruje, má jiné asociace spojené s barvami a objekty a každý v nich vidí něco jiného.  Aktivovaná vlastní představivost zároveň nutí k přemýšlení o věcech, kterými jsme se doposud nezabývali, a pobízí k nápadům, které by nám bez inspirace uměním nepřišly na mysl. Podle mě to víc platí pro moderní umění, které je abstraktnější. To je skvělé, ne? Autor totiž netvoří “jenom” něco krásného, ale nutí nás PŘEMÝŠLET a přijít s něčím ryze vlastním - NÁPADEM.

Graffiti je moderní forma umění, která ale není ještě všemi uznávaná. Jelikož je na ulici, je to nejlepší způsob jak dostat umění k lidem – je tam k vidění po všechny a pořád. Jeden z nejznámějších umělců graffiti je Banksy. Žije v Londýně, je politický aktivista a nikdo pořádně neví, kdo opravdu je. Graffiti je v mnoha zemích nelegální, takže Banksy svá díla podepisuje přezdívkou. Nebudu tady mluvit za něho, ani vysvětlovat, co svými díly myslel. Spíš chci ukázat pár příkladů, které mluví samy za sebe.

Když jsme se na našem semináři měli popasovat s úkolem vytvořit animaci nebo krátké video, které ukáže, co pro nás znamená sociální inovace, jedna ze skupin zvolila jako svou techniku právě graffiti. Je to mladá forma umění, a i když ji ne každý má rád, pomáhá vyjádřit, co máme na srdci. Pustili jsme se s vervou do díla a vytvořili jsme toto úžasné video. Je poznat, že jsme tím chtěli něco říct? Můžu prozradit, že jsme chtěli upozornit na, a videem sdílet, tento princip: pokud je každý ochoten přidat něco svého, skvělá myšlenka má šanci se rozvinout. Přesně taková je sociální inovace, jak ji chápeme – moderní, jde za lidmi a řeší jejich problém. Úspěšné vyřešení ale potřebuje hlavy nás všech!

Zajímá nás, co tě jako první napadlo, když jsi viděl naše video? Možná tě, stejně jako graffiti nebo jiná forma umění, přimělo přemýšlet o něčem novém? Nebo tě rovnou napadla nějaká sociální inovace? Budeme rádi za tvoje podněty!

- Polly

This blog is a part of the project Empowering Youth To Become Social Innovators, realised under the Erasmus+ partnership programme. The project is coordinated by a Czech NGO DYNAMA, z.s., seated in Brno and an Estonian NGO Youth Club Active, seated in Tallinn. This project contributes to the development of non formal learning of the youth.

9. blog post ENG

Explaining what social innovation means to us through animation

You can check our animations on our Vimeo or Facebook page

Love story or why to start talking about social innovation with young people

Do you live a life of a reactionist or the one of a pro activist? When you are 15+ you probably go to school where you get prescribed tasks. You are probably made to believe that a group of unknown specialists designed the best selection of knowledge for you and some other groups made series of tests to test you if you did your homework. You are supposed to live in that mode for some more years further. You are trained to react to what others bring to you. Nevertheless, will you be able to switch, when it´s the right time, to a mode of a self confident member of a society, a successful enterpreneur, a smart NGO worker or a skillful engineer? Will you be able to improve the life of many others, save the planet or at least not to consumme in a way causing vast destruction? These were the questions which authors of the project Empowering Youth to Become Social Innovators asked a year ago. And it seemed obvious that it would be important to make young people believe that their ideas matter. The sooner, the better.

We all probably understand what an innovation is. You just materialise a good idea and abraka dabra - an innovation is born. The aspect of „social“ means that there are a lot of other people who can benefit from that innovation and they just start using it in their everyday life. Petr Vitek, a co-founder of the Czech Impact Hub, a global network supporting young entrepreneurship, in an interview for a student magazine makes a point when mentioning an old Indian rule: all decisions had to be made with regard to the seven following generations.  We might not need to design social innovations if we respected such a rule!

All right then – we discovered what social innovation means for us, talked to inspiring people, shared our motivations to innovate, looked around to find existing social innovations in practice and improved in a number of useful skills. When it comes down to making things happen, there are still these major questions: How to approach social innovation? From which perspective? Where to start?

This is the moment when art steps in: when making your hands create scenes, let´ s say from clay, or trying express ideas through pictures, new connections come to your mind, ideas make sense and eventually you get it. Like with our Love story: a simple story of an old person being helped by a young lady. Yes, we made it! Our first team animation and it worked! Fantastic. However, how does it connect with social innovation, if ever? We invite you to watch the animation and find the answer for yourself, no matter what we have written there, at the end, for you. This is our connection but you may like it differently. Welcome to our own discovery.

- Anna

This blog is a part of the project Empowering Youth To Become Social Innovators, realised under the Erasmus+ partnership programme. The project is coordinated by a Czech NGO DYNAMA, z.s., seated in Brno and an Estonian NGO Youth Club Active, seated in Tallinn. This project contributes to the development of non formal learning of the youth.

9. blog post CZ

Vysvětlení významu sociální inovace skrz animaci

Naše animace si můžete prohlédnout na Vimeo nebo na Facebook 

Love story aneb proč mluvit s mládeží o sociální inovaci

Žiješ život reakcionáře nebo pro aktivisty? Když je ti 15+, asi chodíš do školy, kde ti zadávají úkoly. Bere se jako samozřejmé, že věříš, že skupina neznámých profesionálů pro tebe dala dohromady nejlepší výběr informací a skupina jiných profíků vytvořila testy na to, aby otestovali to, jak ses to všechno naučil. A předpokládá se, že v tomhle nastavení budeš fungovat ještě nějakou řádku let. Jsi cvičen, abys reagoval na to, co ti někdo jiný strká pod nos. Budeš se ale v pravý čas schopen přeladit na sebevědomého člena společnosti, úspěšného podnikatele, důmyslného pracovníka neziskového sektoru či schopného řemeslníka? Budeš schopen zlepšit život mnohým, zachraňovat Zemi nebo alespoň nepropadnout konzumu natolik, že se budeš podepisovat na široké destrukci? Toto jsou otázky, které si před rokem kladli autoři projektu Empowering Youth to Become Social Innovators.

Asi všichni rozumíme, co se skrývá pod pojmem sociální inovace. Stačí dát dobrému nápadu tvar a abraka dabraka – inovace je na světě. Aspekt „sociální“ znamená, že inovaci využívá v každodenním životě mnoho dalších lidí. Petr Vítek, spoluzakladatel českého Impact Hubu, což je globální síť podporující mladé podnikatelské nápady, v interview pro studentský časopis trefuje do černého, když zmíní staré indiánské pravidlo: všechna rozhodnutí musela být činěna s ohledem na sedm dalších generací. Kdybychom toto pravidlo ctili, asi nepotřebujeme sociální inovace.

Takže – zjistili jsme, co pro nás sociální inovace znamená, mluvili jsme s inspirujícími lidmi, sdíleli jsme naši motivaci inovovat, hledali jsme kolem sebe fungující sociální inovace a zlepšili se v různých užitečných dovednostech. Ale když dojde na skutečné vytvoření sociální inovace, jsou tu pořád ty neodbytné otázky: jak to uchopit? Z jaké perspektivy? Kde začít?

A to je ten moment, kdy se do hry vloží umění: když se pokoušíte rukama vytvářet scény, třeba zrovna z plastelíny, nebo vyjádřit myšlenky obrazy, věci se vám v hlavě začnou propojovat novým způsobem. Stejně tak jako v naší Love story: máme jednoduchý příběh starého člověka, kterému pomůže mladá dáma. Joo, dali jsme to! Naše první týmová animace a podařila se! Skvělé. Ale souvisí to nějak se sociální inovací? Zveme vás ke sledování naší animace a k nalezení vlastní odpovědi na naši otázku. Bez ohledu na to, co jsme napsali do závěrečného textu. To je totiž propojení, které docvaklo nám – vy to můžete vidět jinak. Takže hurá do vlastního objevování.

- Anna

This blog is a part of the project Empowering Youth To Become Social Innovators, realised under the Erasmus+ partnership programme. The project is coordinated by a Czech NGO DYNAMA, z.s., seated in Brno and an Estonian NGO Youth Club Active, seated in Tallinn. This project contributes to the development of non formal learning of the youth.

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PEOPLE WHO INSPIRE US 

Darja`s interview is on our Facebook page here 

How did you meet with Darja?

I met Dasha in the summer camp Vihasoo. I was a child in the camp and she was a leader of the period. 

What was your first impression?

My first impression was positive. She was very bright, beautiful and funny. I immediately wanted to talk with her and find common topics.

What did you find interesting?

This person gave to me a lot. She is interesting absolutely in everything. Dasha has achieved a lot of success. She is able to do everything and everywhere. The biggest success in her life is that she is doing what she likes and does everything with a deep love.

What did you think at the end of the talk?

Every time when I have talk with Dasha, I find inspiration for myself. After talking with her it seems to me that nothing is impossible and everything is in your hands. Dasha for me is a supporter, mastermind, critic, mentor and the most important for me that she is my friend. I wish to every human being able to have this kind of friend as I have. I am very glad to have met with Dasha.

This blog is a part of the project Empowering Youth To Become Social Innovators, realised under the Erasmus+ partnership programme. The project is coordinated by a Czech NGO DYNAMA, z.s., seated in Brno and an Estonian NGO Youth Club Active, seated in Tallinn. This project contributes to the development of non formal learning of the youth.

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PEOPLE WHO INSPIRE US 

Victor´s interview is on our Facebook page here

 How did you meet Victor?

I have met Victor during the autumn sub urban camp meeting. He was very creative and suggested different kinds of activity for youth in the camp Vihasoo. 

Where did it happened?

The meeting was held in the NGO Youth Club Active centre, Tallinn, Estonia (address Võru 11). 

What was your first impression?

 I thought that he was a bit strange, but he had very interesting ideas all the time.

What did you find interesting?

For me the most interesting moment was when he actually started sharing his ideas. They were non-formal, unusual and fresh. 

What did you think at the end of the talk? 

At the end of the talk, I realised that he was a person with great imagination and his enthusiasm was contagious in the good way. 

This blog is a part of the project Empowering Youth To Become Social Innovators, realised under the Erasmus+ partnership programme. The project is coordinated by a Czech NGO DYNAMA, z.s., seated in Brno and an Estonian NGO Youth Club Active, seated in Tallinn. This project contributes to the development of non formal learning of the youth.

6. blog post ENG

PEOPLE WHO INSPIRE US 

Elena's interview is on our Facebook page here 

Hey. My name is Lisa Galkina and I am representative of Youth Club Active organization and participant of the project "Social Innovation".

For the rubric "People who inspired us," I have chosen Christina Peetlalu.

-How did you meet with Christina?

Liza: I know Christina from childhood, because our mothers are very good friends.

-What was your first impression?

Liza:Before the first class I didn’t think about it like that, but everything changed during this year, when I have participated in the project "Tallinna lapsed" (Children of Tallinn), where Christina was the project coordinator.

-What did you find interesting? 

Liza: At that moment I started to think: How she can manage everything? How she can cope with all of the difficulties? What motivates her?

Till that day I am continue surprising and delighting by her!

Christine always says smart and interesting things, but the most important that she inspires me by her example, as she is active, persistent and positive. She was deprived of the opportunity to walk and see, but she leads an incredibly active life. She is involved in many projects and also leading them by herself. I believe that many people can learn a lot from her.

-What did you think at the end of the talk?

Liza: After meeting with Christine, my perception of the moral values changed. I began to notice people with any special needs and become closer to this topic. I wish the same to everyone!

This blog is a part of the project Empowering Youth To Become Social Innovators, realised under the Erasmus+ partnership programme. The project is coordinated by a Czech NGO DYNAMA, z.s., seated in Brno and an Estonian NGO Youth Club Active, seated in Tallinn. This project contributes to the development of non formal learning of the youth.