Our story began in December 2016: 2 chemistry partners + 2 art partners… Unfortunately, during the first few weeks, two partners left the project for personal and organizational reasons... So, we have closed project and re-created it with a new TwinSpace: “One story, two perspectives “, by Chemistry&Art 2. And with renewed enthusiasm, we got back to work, documenting the various phases with photos we have placed on the page “Working in progress”.

Here our team!

Italy: school with specialization in science. 

Czech Republic: school with specialization in art.

To be involved immediately in the project, students created a wordcloud putting together the words of all 
and chose logo by a logo competition! It's always exciting for students to get involved in a competition! 
All logos were great… Probably it won the most tender one, which best represented the concept 
that a partner needs the other. Sweet choice!

By task “Let’s meet”, in particolar by step “A little present for you, my new friends”, students internalized own subject, stimulated creative thinking and established a very strong connection with partners students. At the end of the task, filled us with joy to see the members profile completed using photos that others had prepared as a gift. Italian students printed photos, wrote a dedication by hand on them and sent by mail to Czech school. Ufortunately, Czech partners was not able to do the same, but, anyway, pictures that Czech students prepared for Italian students are amazing and they have done a lot of work!

Here, we posted our reflections!

By videos, we have presented our schools. To get together two so different school was a challenge for us! An exciting challenge!

Then, “Telling 1 chemical story from 2 perspectives”, the task that justifies the name of the project. “2”
not just as the disciplines involved, but also as macroscopic and nanoscopic. 

First of all, chemistry students told a chemical story (about how much chloride ions are in our beautiful Ionian sea).
We used the storytelling approach, in order to involve deeply students and other people that 
in future will read the story and in order to encrease the understanding of the chemical experiment... 

Then, art students told the same experiment from the point of view of the ions inside the sea and the 
solutions in lab! 

Between the two stories, an intermediate step in which we have built the script for the story 
from the nanoscopic point of view.

It was not easy to interact about this, but very stimulating!

Because of initial problems, we were not able to join the two story in an unique presentation. 
We are going to do that in next autumn. Since storytelling is still very little used in chemistry, 
one of the main purposes of the project was to create a presentation that could be used 
as a teaching material both in the coming years and by other teachers. For this purpose, we expect 
to publish it on an opensource site. We will make it! 

Creative thinking, joy, connection, emotions, mutual help, storytelling, sharing, empaty... 
these are some of words that define our original project!

See you soon...

By Project's Team