he workshop gathered 18 young people and professionals from Norway, Germany and the Czech Republic and was led by theatre educators Jana Nechvátalová and Klára Fidlerová.
The 3rd Digital workshop provided mainly 3 opportunities:
- to reconnect the young as well as adult participants who have already met at Camp Involve
- to make the first connection with new young participants from Norway and Germany
- to create
Focus and approach
The workshop focused on artistic creation driven by non-rational sources such as intuition, chance and spontaneity. It also functioned as a reconnection point after the summer break, while welcoming new young participants into the 3Place network.
Rather than working towards a polished outcome, the workshop emphasised process over result, encouraging participants to trust impulses and experiment without evaluation.
Hopefully, it was the first successful step to find our 3place in artistic creation.
Methods and tasks
Participants worked through a sequence of short creative exercises:
- Brainstorming inspiration: mapping personal sources of inspiration on a shared mural board
- Automatic writing: five minutes of uninterrupted writing based on musical stimuli
- Dadaist poetry: assembling poems from selected words and sentences to create unexpected meanings
- Classical comics: collaboratively adding speech bubbles to classical paintings without verbal communication
- Fictional film synopsis: playfully developing stories through associative thinking
Each task was designed to reduce self-censorship and support collective play in a digital setting.
Outcomes
Despite being fully online, the workshop created a strong sense of connection and shared experience. Participants reported feeling free to experiment and engage creatively with others, including peers they had not met before. The workshop demonstrated that artistic play and group cohesion can be fostered digitally when tasks are simple, imaginative and clearly framed.
