8° Activity - Experiencing a refugee's journey - An interactive exhibition

  • The journey

    An interactive exhibition about the topic “escape"

    Who? Jugendwerk Altholstein (A group of people, who are doing projects for the youth)

    When? 06.08.-20.06.2016

    Why? The goal of the exhibition is to confront the pupils with the horrific experience of refugees.

    What? The exhibition was developed in 2015 and is made for pupils and students aged between 14 and 25. They take on a new identity and go trough the journey of a refugee. They for instance get in contact with human traffickers and need to build shelter. In the following stations they experience interactively what it means to be a refugee on a long journey:

    • Communication

    • Build shelter

    • Orientation

    • Making decisions in difficult situations

    • Dreams

    • Asylum or not?

    • Transportation