Intercultural exchange
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We feel that working together with people from different countries already is a big exchange between culture, yet only related to a work environment.
We therefore want to organize an hour to also cover other cultural and daily-life aspects and suggest following items to have some coming together aside your work in the summer school.
BioArt summer school playlist
We thought that it would be nice to have a playlist for the BioArt summer school. Please send us up to three titles to bioart.summerschool@iiss.at including a small text why this song is important for this summer school.
The challenge is to find a song that is related to the summer school and has some special meaning for you. We are looking forward to your song!
BioArt space cooking
Food is another important part of our culture and we will see how it differs between the countries and participants. Please do the following three things
- We start with a simple word for a dish and each group should create a small presentation what this dish means to the nation of each group member and what is the national specialty of this dish in your country.
- Try to find one attitude or characteristic of your culture starting with each letter of the dish. Please also enter this word in mentimeter. You will receive the code in the session to create a creative word cloud during the session.
- Additionally, select national dishes (max. 1 per country) that would be perfect to cook and eat on a space craft. Give some reasoning about your thoughts.
No need to prepare something. It should be fun to discover it in the group and among all participants. Also the "keyword" will be only given during the session. This outcome will not be evaluated in the student contest!
After a discussion phase (20 minutes) in the group and online creation of some slides, you will present your/your groups point of view to the others (max. 5 slides, 5 minutes per group).
We will put all slides online at this page to show the diversity between the participants!
Results of the intercultural event
After the session most went out hungry, due to the many food presented. Also dishes for astronauts varied tremendously and showed the variety of local cousine. Finally, we created a word cloud derived starting with the letters of the keyword "pancake". See here the characteristics of the participants and their nations.
