„Making visible the unknown“ is an audio-visual project with an integrative and educational approach, in which both young Roma and No Roma students are invited to reflect their social-urban environment with the help of a video-camera in the context of the transformation of the city of Pécs from a post-industrial to a “creative” one within the celebrations of the European Capital of Culture 2010 in Pécs/ Hungary.
With a virtual and real city map the participants will investigate and discuss the urban estructure of their resepective districts, pinpoint buildings and key spaces in their public or personal representations, always in the background of the ongoing transformation of the city. The city map is the key represents the basic element in which text, images, sounds and videos will be integrated during the research process. By displaying the unvisible mind-city-maps of each other the reflection about the citizenship as well as about their own city will be activated and might create urban-cultural bridges between them.
The participants will investigate and learn to classify the structure of their urban district such as differentiate between public, private, personal urban representations and their political, social and aesthetically functions. With a virtual and real city map the participants will investigate and discuss the urban structure of their respective districts, pinpoint buildings and key spaces in their public or personal representations, always in the background of the ongoing transformation of the city.
To enhance civil society comprehension of the students they will intervene in the public sphere and interview the citizens of Pécs about their personal living conditions, frustrations, expectations and the changes in town. Video camera and microphone enable the children to use the given journalistic means to enter the respective social context of the interviewee in an experimental way, what might cause certain processes of rapprochement between the citizens. Overcoming personal barriers in contact with different communities is a focus as well as the assimilation of divergent opinions and their critical discussion between the participants and the interviewees.
