The Storyteller
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Activism Design
with Open Arms NGO
12.22
This project represents a collaboration between Elisava School of Design and Engineering and Open Arms NGO with the aim of designing an oversea school utilising one of the NGO’s ships.
The design team formed by Alba Wera, Lola Lemke, Paula Ferrés and Eliot DeTienda, turned the ship into a Newspaper Printing House: The Storyteller. The produced journal gathers up new mechanisms, exercises and first-hand stories in order to reach a wide spectrum of real information which helps reflect not only the migratory emergency, but all the corruptions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Aside from the main narrative, austerity, self- sufficiency, transience (fragility, vulnerability), subsistence, survival and urgency are the six pivotal concepts leading all the workshops that will be carried out inside and outside the boat. By collaborating with different aligned designers and educators, the school would be stopping at Mediterranean Ports to to catalyze existing voices, thus empowering and promoting self- determination.