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Graffiti Project

Place:  Kiel

Timeframe: Short term

Organiser: City of Kiel, Vanartizm Graffiti Studio, Verein für trauernde Kinder e.V.

Participants: Graffiti artists, children and teenagers

Goal: Empowering children through creative measures, create social cohesion through joint activities, create self-efficacy through creative storytelling

 

WHAT IS IT?

In June 2024 the city of Kiel set up a street art project for children and teenagers to empower them through cultural education and grow their self-efficacy through creative storytelling.

In collaboration with three graffiti artists, children and teenagers from the Association for Grieving Children designed individual motifs for a graffiti artwork on the outside wall of a house. On the premises of the association, the three artists gave the young people artistic inspiration on how to express their ideas, feelings and thoughts about grief in several sessions. The graffiti artists then brought the individual motifs together in an overall work with a maritime theme and sprayed the final, jointly designed motif on a donated house wall, which is located in the same neighbourhood as the association.

 

HOW TO 

  • The measure created a creative space for teenagers to reflect on their ideas, thoughts and feelings on grief.
  • The measure initiated a co-creative process and strengthened the self-efficacy of the participants.
  • The graffiti gave a redesign to a formerly grey outside wall of a house and has storytelling elements.

RECOMMENDATIONS 

  • It is recommended to select a large and clearly visible wall surface in the urban space.
  • If the city does not have its own wall surfaces, you should call for wall donations via media.
  • The artists should lead the realisation with the citizens and/or civil society groups themselves, as they know best what is feasible and achieves the greatest impact

 

LEARN MORE

  • https://www.kiel.de/de/kultur_freizeit/cultural_pearl.php
  • https://interreg-baltic.eu/project-posts/bsr-cultural-pearls/building-sense-of-belonging-through-artwork-youth-inspired-graffiti-in-kiel/