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rathore - creativity in special schools project

I worked with three separate groups. All of the children were aged from 12 to 18, with varying levels of sensory impairment and learning difficulties. With the first group I began by using the theme of ‘outside and the natural environment’ as a real source of inspiration i.e.; ‘recall a walk in the forest and the associated sensations of the sights and sounds’. We used natural materials and nature sounds to generate ideas. I wanted the group to work together to develop a large-scale multi media collage, along with an accompanying sound piece...



 Please refer to the following files detailing the project in full: PDF report (4.9mb)

click to view .mov file

countdown for Eimear: click to play sound file


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