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Case Study: The Van Gogh project: ‘’Van Gogh and I’’ (Nationwide, The Netherlands)
Stichting de Vrolijkheid, translated as Foundation the Joy, has created a series of workshops for youths who are staying in asylum centres, to make a collage in the style of Van Gogh. For this project, they also paid a visit to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and were given the opportunity by the museum to exhibit their works during the annual Museum Night of Amsterdam. Organization Stichting de Vrolijkheid currently has 67 locations across the Netherlands, where they organize activities for children, teenagers, young people and families staying in asylum centres. The workshops that the foundation provides vary in form and duration, depending on the resources available near the…
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Case Study: SMAK’s Chocolate Workshops (Gent, Belgium)
The Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art (SMAK) in Gent organized chocolate-making workshops in 2017 for people who fled due to war. The outcome was part of an exhibition, which was intended to be seen as a form of art. The objectives of this project were to tackle multiple social issues by connecting them in one workshop. Organization Since 2015 Europe has dealt with a migrant issue due to the war in Syria. Like many other European countries, Belgium had to come up with a plan to house those who sleeked asylum. In the following years, Belgium became more creative in housing people in need as more institutions opened their facilities.…
