As part of the Tikktika: Playing Beyond Space and Time project, funded by the EU Grundtvig 2 fund, artists Jane Fox and Tomos Barton helped create a Labyrinth in the city of Matosinios, near Porto, Portugal last week. Co-devised with artists from Bucharest, Porto and Paris this was the second of four small Labyrinths that are being created for the project. The first in Paris worked with children in a primary school to transform their school in the last week of term to a 'Republic of the Imagination' and as a setting to tell the story of the lost child. The one last week in Portugalwas designed to launch a new second chance school and the audience were the pupils of the school enetering it for the first time through the Labyrinth!
Thank you to Luis Mesquita Isabel Leal and Isabel Moreira for hosting such an innovative application of the Labyrinth and thank you to Tomos and Jane for representing Cynefin.
The next Labyrinth will be in Bucharest with grandparents and the next in Wales with young parents. The hope is that the materials generated by these Labyrinths will come together to create a children's book an accompanying website and a workshop outline which can be used in schools to look at the issue of playing, lost childhood and the urban environment.
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