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It was a fantastic piece of art, but as the story was written in French, I only sent
photos to Tokyo and held another workshop with Tokyo kids. I asked them to make
their own story using these photos.
The amazing thing was that almost all the kids in Tokyo made similar stories from
the same sequence of photos.
(1) A suspicious person, (2) was prowling, (3) and set up bombs in a sweets shop,
(4) and her lip was blown off! Baaaan!!
Tokyo Manga versus Paris high art?
The same technology and the same devices were used. But the result showed totally
different expressions and contents. It depends on the culture, history, communication
style, etc. That is what I expected them to share. Once we had a workshop in a local
village in Cambodia. It was an Anime creation workshop, but it was not as easy as
usual, because we did not have enough electricity, and more over, the children had
never seen Anime before. We first had to share the idea what Anime is. However,
they managed to create their photo Anime under that environment. In similar ways,
workshops were also held in Brazil, Italy, and Japan. In the end, they all made a
collaboration Anime together.
Every country, every village, every child on earth has its own beautiful culture. It
can be empowered by digital technology.
Let's think about your town. At a digital newspaper workshop, children research
with the Internet, and go out into the town with pens, notebooks, digital cameras
to make interviews, discuss each other, and make digital newspapers. That is a
convergence of digital and analog and virtual and real. The balance between them is
the important point.
In Autumn 2012, our team worked with Google in order to see smiles of children
in the northern part of Japan, where the earthquake and tsunami hit 1 year before.
A programming workshop was provided that enabled children to create their own
