Report on: creative workshops: monument – exhibition
On Thursday afternoon, we had a workshop about monuments and cemeteries.
Our task was to design a new memorial or cemetery in Tielt. As inspiration, we
visited cemeteries in France, and we looked at the vegetation: the trees, plants,
flowers,… We could choose between 3 different places to put our memorial or
cemetery. To design it, we were divided in 2 different groups.
Our group designed a cemetery on the Poelberg. First we had to choose a cause
(why did they die?) and which nationalities were involved. We chose to make a
cemetery for the drown refugees from Africa. The nationalities that are involved
are Morocco, Somalia, Algeria, Etruria, Libya and Tunisia. Then we had to
choose the form of our cemetery, and we decided to make a flower of it, because
Africa is known for having a lot of vegetation and joyful people. We had to use
Google Sketch, but it was easier to draw on paper. We drew two different plans,
to have different ideas and then we mixed the two plans on a big sheet of paper.
We wanted to add colors and a lot of flowers and trees, because we didn’t want a
regular sad cemetery. The center of the flower was a fountain, and every leave
presented a different country. In the leaves, there were the tombstones which
we also drew on a sheet of paper. The borders of the leaves were little rivers,
and there were also little bridges. There also was a building at our cemetery, in
the main entrance. Between the leaves of the flower, there is forest.
The other group also made a cemetery for the refugees in Africa. They made it
around a pond, and they also put things in the water.
Luna Vandenbulcke and Lauriane Koudouovoh