Urban Photo Album, Ankara, Turkey

Type of Project: Multilateral Exchange Project
Theme: art, cultural heritage, sports, environment, social work, leisure time activities, volunteering..

Most of us live in very big and crowded cities. And as the time passes the places we live and our city have been changing. We want to share this life together for 6 days and take photos from all different ways of life in Ankara. So, we will visit many places and take photos with our digital cameras.

We believe in the power of the arts as a medium for social transformation and that the re-connection to create processes within social, educational, governmental and non-governmental structures. This exchange program aims to give Turkish and European organisations the opportunity to enhance exchange, partnership and co-operation. By discussing the experiences of the participants from various countries we hope to create chances to establish face-to-face contacts and discover new opportunities for further and long lasting relationships between different countries.

Photography, especially digital photography, is increasingly used as a tool for bringing new social processes, development in all sections of our global society. We would like to bring together and catalyse the young people in the concept of photography and co-operate and share experiences and projects through collaboration in the area of art and bring new intercultural learning in the concept of photography. This exchange aims at bringing together youth leaders and experts to discuss art issues and real-life problems and to develop communication and negotiation skills

The activities to be done will concern about the knowledge, skills and motivation of the participants. We believe that giving chance young people to show their desires and skills with other young people by sharing the same atmosphere and showing them that they can create new things even in a short period of time this project will encourage them to be more active in their real life.
There will be 3 activities on 3 different topics. These are:

-the advantages and the disadvantages of living in a big city
-what can we do as active citizens to have better life in our cities
-the importance of photography. (and also discuss the importance digital photography)

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