Codename Seedling: Hive Symposium

Description

This Hive Symposium is organised in January 2025 as part of the Erasmus+ project Codename Seedling.

Codename Seedling explores non-formal climate education with youth via the arts. We explore how we can use arts to engage and work with youth on the topic of ecology and the biodiversity crisis. As part of this project, we exchange knowhow with international practitioners (working with youth in arts, education, and activism) and create local projects with youth.

The project started in the summer of 2024 and runs until autumn 2025. The first part focuses on the ‘practice’, including arts-based youth projects and the development of arts-based advocacy toolkits for youth practitioners based on the activities of our international community of practice. The second part focuses on ‘research’, including an impact study through an embedded reflective strategy that demonstrates the potential of the creative projects and toolkit, and ‘dissemination’ where we communicate with the wider world what we’ve been doing in this project. The hive symposium is part of this phase.

What is a Hive Symposium?
We gather a group of 80 people across fields – artists, youth, nature educators, activists, ecological enthusiasts, and many more – to learn from each other’s perspectives and use our ‘hive mind’ to figure out how the local projects we created with youth could live on beyond the project, inspiring more people. The symposium hosts a diversity of knowledge and exchanges through embodied conversations, playful action planning and Open Space Technology interwoven with games, moments of rest, and walking. Think of symposium meets youth camp.

Partners of Codename Seedling: Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE), Destelheide (BE), De Veerman (BE), Nyskaben (DK), AND Lab (PT), Villette Makerz (FR), Coney (UK), Bath Spa University (UK)

Period	21 Jan 2025 → 23 Jan 2025
Event type	Conference
Location	Dworp, Belgium
Degree of Recognition	International