New European Bauhaus Prizes 2023

Initiative category

Identify the award category for which this initiative is being submitted
Shaping a circular industrial ecosystem and supporting life-cycle thinking

Email user
frookslisbon@gmail.com

Basic information
Initiative title
Frooks Lisbon - Senior Workshops

Full initiative Title
Frooks Lisbon - Senior Workshops

Please provide a short, catchy description of your initiative to be used in communication towards the public.
The FROOKS project reuses books and domestic waste materials from garbage, altering, transforming and applying them on frames.
It isolates the messages and removes the context, in a game of decontexts where the stories gain shape.
It is a creative project that aims to boost active aging through sustainable practices of physical, intellectual and social accessibility in an artistic initiative
Boost active aging through sustainable practices of physical, intellectual and social accessibility

What was the geographical scope of your intiative?
Local

Where was your intiative implemented?
Member State(s) and Western Balkans
Portugal

If relevant, insert names of region(s)/municipality(ies) involved
Lisbon

Does your initiative address mainly urban or rural issues?
It addresses urban-rural linkages

Does your initiative refer to a physical transformation of the built environment or other types of transformations (hard or soft investments)?
It refers to other types of transformations (soft investment)

Has your initiative benefited from EU programmes and/or funds?
No

Has your initiative won an EU prize with a monetary value awarded?
No

Does your initiative has a minimum level of maturity? The minimum level of maturity is exemplified by stakeholder/ initiative promoter commitment to implement the initiative in practice and a clear methodology /approach.
Yes

On whose behalf are you submitting the application?
As an individual
Please provide the contact details for the intiative promoter (the individual or representative of the organisation authorised to represent the intiative).
- First name: Mariana
  Last name: Castelo Branco Garcia
  Gender: Female
  Nationality: Portugal
  If relevant, please select your other nationality: Portugal
  Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Rua Vila Correia 15 rc esq
  Town: Lisbon
  Postal code: 1400-074
  Country: Portugal
  Direct Tel: +351 967 285 566
  E-mail: frookslisbon@gmail.com
  Website: https://frooks-lisbon.business.site/
Social Media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, etc.)
- URL: https://instagram.com/frookslisbon
  Social media handle and associated hashtag(s): #frookslisbon #frooks #framesinbooks #decor #handmade #homedecor #diy #diyproject #diyideas #fyp #quadros #quadroscriativos #booksframed #diyframes #framedart #frameshop #frameswithbooks #handmadeinportugal #reciclar #reciclagem #reaproveirtar #recycle
- URL: https://www.facebook.com/frookslisbon
  Social media handle and associated hashtag(s): #frookslisbon #frooks #framesinbooks #decor #handmade #homedecor #diy #diyproject #diyideas #fyp #quadros #quadroscriativos #booksframed #diyframes #framedart #frameshop #frameswithbooks #handmadeinportugal #reciclar #reciclagem #reaproveirtar #recycle
- URL: https://www.tiktok.com/@frookslisbon
  Social media handle and associated hashtag(s): #frookslisbon #frooks #framesinbooks #decor #handmade #homedecor #diy #diyproject #diyideas #fyp #quadros #quadroscriativos #booksframed #diyframes #framedart #frameshop #frameswithbooks #handmadeinportugal #reciclar #reciclagem #reaproveirtar #recycle
In case my initiative is selected as a finalist of the NEB Prizes 2023, I agree to share the name (individual and/or organisation’s), email address, website and social media accounts indicated above with other NEB Prizes finalists. I also agree to publish the name (individual and/or organisation’s), website and social media accounts indicated above next to the public description of my initiative in the channels of the European Commission.
Yes

How did you hear about the New European Bauhaus Prizes?
Social Media

Description of the initiative
Please provide a summary of your initiative
The porpose is to create Seniors workshops that explore the creative and artistic brain side focused on education for recycling, exploration of creativity, social support, reading and that, due to their scope, promote conviviality, combating isolation while educating for sustainability, social responsibility , educational socialization, cognitive development, fine motor skills, art, among others.

In each workshop to create a Frooks, you will need to find your book, choose your match while reading it, work the book to highlight it, apply several art tecnicques to dress up and in the phase out to enclose and frame promoting social interaction and combating loneliness and isolation. All these with our homemade garbage.

The objective of these senior workshops, which are of a very relative degree of difficulty and of a very comprehensive degree of creativity, is to explore various dimensions of intervention (painting, cutting, spraying, craving, collage, reading, etc.) several possibilities for reusing the materials we have in our home that are apparently garbage, but can be much more to the relevance.

From the cream caps, to the kids' phones, to the MAC box, to the old tray, everything was a pretext and opened the mind to the reuse and recycling of common materials in good condition and giving them a different use. Another way to reuse…

… in favor of our sustainability and that can be much more than the differentiation of waste and that the process itself can be a pleasant surprise and addictive too.

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with 5 key words.
active seniority

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
reuse/recycle

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
sustainability

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
creativity

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
combating isolation

Please give information about the key objectives of your initiative in terms of sustainability and how these have been/will be met. Please highlight how the initiative can be exemplary in this context.
The FROOKS project reuses books and domestic waste materials from garbage, altering, transforming and applying them on frames.

It isolates the messages and removes the context, in a game of decontexts where the stories gain shape.

Boost active aging through sustainable practices of physical, intellectual and social accessibility in an artistic initiative where the aim is to promote useful seniority, creativity, stimulating and creating new habits and perspectives in social responsibility in our day life acts..
Work on cognitive development through education for recycling, its potential reutilysation and its contribution to an even more original circular economy.

Promoting the fight against isolation, supporting social action and encouraging personal development.

Although it can be a very transversal project that can reach all adults, it is focused on a more senior target between 40-75 years old.
More Stories
More Creativity
More Responsibility
MORE AVAILABILITY
More Will
More Focus
more cheer
More Frooks!

Please give information about the key objectives of your initiative in terms of aesthetics and quality of experience for people (through design, positive emotions and cultural benefits) and how these have been met. Please highlight how the initiative can be exemplary in this context.
The aim of these senior workshops, which are of a very relative degree of difficulty and a very broad degree of creativity, is to explore various dimensions of intervention (painting, cutting, spraying, craving, collage, reading, etc.) several possibilities of using the remains that we have in our house that are apparently garbage, but can be much more educating and creating habits of reuse and several possibilities of reusing the common garbage of our house.

The idea is that each participant, by the end of the workshop, will be able to create their own FROOKS - picture + book + frame and one minded to reuse creatively adapted recycled materials.

Please give information about the key objectives of your initiative in terms of inclusion (ranging from accessibility and affordability for all to inclusive governing systems, design for all principles or new societal models) and how these have been met. Please highlight how the initiative can be exemplary in this context.
Appreciation through an artistic initiative that forces the elderly to work on creativity while at the same time teaching the benefits and potential of recycling, educating and creating sustainability habits with different perspective.

6 big objectives
- Senior Empowerment
- give use to every waste at home with creativity
- beguin a elderly edducation process opening their horizons for recycling and reusing and make it vicious
- Take advantage of their knowledge and background in the creative process
- Make a moment of socialization, contribution, learning and sharing
- Basic notions of networks and sharing

Please explain the way citizens benefiting from or affected by the initiative and civil society have been/will be involved in the initiative and what has been/will be the impact of this involvement on the initiative
One of the intended impacts is the appreciation of senior activity and the demonstration that their contribution in a project with these characteristics is an enormous added value. Not so in each one but also in the community.
The benefits of education for sustainability and everything they can pass on to future generations.
Not only for the previously mentioned social impact, but also for the legacy they receive and will distribute to their peers.
Civilizing society at both edges, young and old contributing to a more sustainable future.

Please explain how different stakeholders at various levels (local, regional, national, European) were engaged in the design and implementation of the initiative.
Its an educational process that intends to approach the recycling creative solutions to elderly and more experinced people localy so they can contribute to a future of a more responsable generation.

Please explain which disciplines and/ or knowledge fields were reflected in the design and implementation of your initiative. Please explain how representatives of these different fields interacted with each other, and what the added value of this process was
This creation process involves a number of creative techniques that can take the most varied forms.

In each workshop to create a Frooks, you will need to find your book, choose your match while reading it, work the book to highlight it, apply several art tecnicques to dress up and in the phase out to enclose, secure and frame, promoting social interaction and combating loneliness and isolation.

Please highlight the innovative character of the initiative, when compared to mainstream actions in the field of the initiative
Put seniors in action using art and creativity with recycling and reusing evolved in it. Most initiatives are for kids or teens.

It is a differentiated solution for its scope and diversity of the various areas where it operates and for the technical simplicity that allows anyone to present a work with quality and a lot of creativity.

Contribute to useful ageing, with quality, valuing experience and exploring the potential of a segment that can greatly contribute to the quality of this project, opening the horizons to various forms of cultural expression in changing behaviors and attitudes and expanding skills without the need of beeing an artist.

Please describe which elements of your initiative could be replicated or transferred to other places, groups of beneficiaries and contexts. This may involve, for example, aspects of the methodology, technology, processes, products, learnings, etc.
These workshops can be done anywere at anytime. They need basic home materials, a frames, a book and lots of creativity.

The idea is to create a work plan in which they'll explore the various capacities of each person in several different tasks.
Some of the articles already come semi-assembled in case there are any limitations on creativity or dexterity a letter can tell a whole story and a contextualized phrase will do the rest of the work.

Please describe the methodology or approach used in your initiative.
Methodology:

Preceding the workshop with a previous questionnaire that will allow to do some research fieldwork:
The idea is to create a work plan in which they'll explore the various capacities of each person in several different tasks.
Some of the articles already come semi-assembled in case there are any limitations on creativity or dexterity a letter can tell a whole story and a contextualized phrase will do the rest of the work.

Methodology:

Preceding the workshop with a previous questionnaire that will allow to do some research fieldwork:
1 - Presentation Frooks Lisbon project
2 - Recycling - success stories and case studies
3 - Story debrief
4 - Choice of books/Choice of materials
5 - Choice of frame.
6 - Graphic Study
7 - Color palette
8 - Definition of the Frame
9 - Composition of the frame
10 - Construction
11 - Finalization
12 - Sharing (basic concepts of social networks)
13 - Exhibition

Starting with the presentation of the FROOKS project, a brief approach on the potential of recycled material and the various ideas that already exist, even implemented in Portugal - For example: ZOURI - Tennis from sea plastic, Xico Gaivota, plastic island and other practices and consequences such as the sea of plastic) moving on to a particular briefing and the history and particularities of each one, the most striking moments, the creation and conception of the idea, as well as its implementation and finalization, ending with the importance of sharing and a small introduction to social media.

At the end, it is proposed that the works be exhibited in the room itself or in a place to be defined. The ideal was to be able to have an exhibition.

Please explain what kind of global challenges the initiative addresses by providing local solutions
It is a creative project that aims to boost active aging through sustainable practices of physical, intellectual and social accessibility in an artistic initiative where it is intended to promote useful seniority, creativity, stimulating and creating new habits and perspectives in social responsibility.

These workshops aim to work on cognitive development through education for recycling, its reuse potential and its contribution to an even more original circular economy.
Promoting the fight against isolation, supporting social action and encouraging personal development.

Please detail the scope of progress in the implementation of the initiative. This can include already demonstrated results/outputs related to the chosen Prizes category, and the already achieved benefits from the initiative for direct and indirect beneficiaries. This can also include a development plan of the initiative, with a particular attention to the steps envisaged in the year following the application, and including envisaged results and benefits from the initiative
Im trying to implement the iniciative but some steps have been made.
The Frooks project applied for the Sociedade Ponto Verde sustainability award and is among the finalists wich is a big step for these small project. (please watch video on link bellow from tiktok)

The plan provides for a series of workshops that can be extended or easily replicated if a larger number of events is possible at another time and/or location but the some costs will be dilluted throughout the workshops.

The costs of each workshop include space, coordinator, various creative materials, painting materials, framing, books, travel, room rental, printer, projector, wages, aprons, masks, Covid prevention, coffee break, table protection, storage, transport and assembly and disassembly values that can be diluted according to the scale.

One of the intended impacts is the appreciation of senior activity and the demonstration that their contribution in a project with these characteristics is an enormous added value so Its also predicted 2 have to senior artistic volunteers.

Please provide documents that demonstrate the maturity level of the initiative and commitment to implement the initiative in practice (e.g.: evaluation report, final or mid-term initiative report, certification, publications, building permit, grant agreement, letter of support, partnership agreement, etc.)
Both
PDF
- pdf-1-2613.pdf
Web link
- https://www.tiktok.com/@frookslisbon/video/7194938117244210437
If relevant, please describe how your initiative contributes to developing new competences, especially in the context of the European competence framework on sustainability.
As has been repeatedly written previously, the entire basis of the project is a path of culture and contribution to sustainability in several of its aspects, with a social concern and integration that are also reflected in the basis and purposes of the Frooks Lisbon project.

Especially in the context of the European competence framework on sustainability Frooks Lisbon Senior Workshops fullfill several requirements of different areas.
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Yes

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Yes

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