I am so jealous.
Jealous of modern countries, where kids have such exposure to Art and Architecture.
I was looking at some of Zaha Hadid's work, when I came across her blog, and across this workshop, which was held in the
Design Museum, where kids could come over, enjoy looking and hearing about
Zaha's work, then design buildings inspired by her methods and techniques.Such Creative designs the kids came up with..I just wished my kids could have been there. When one is exposed to good things, one learns how to appreciate them..Beauty is relative concept, but when one's eyes are used to looking at things that are in harmony, that have great proportions, and that are so enjoyably creative, one learns so much..Ah, the things my kids could have learned if they'd been there..the things I could have learned if I had been there!! In every museum I have been to, there were school children, enjoying art..being taught how to appreciate it, and how to behave themselves in such establishments. I am wishing for a day where art classes at school stop being a hopeless case of trying to get the kids to copy a bad drawing that the teacher did on the board...I am wishing for a day when my kids come home with projects of this sort:
However, the bright side is that there are a lot of initiatives happening around town that are promising..I should not make things sound this bad..The Children's Museum in King Hussain Park, is an amazing place, and I think they do hold art workshops for children, at least there was this one time where they had an activity in Eid, and the art room was full of children experimenting with shapes and colors..and enjoying it.
The museum itself is so nicely designed, everything about it is beautiful, its ceratinly one place that can have a great role in motivating the children to appreciate both arts and science .The shapes, colors, spaces ..everything out there is simply amazing.
And there's something in there for everyone, physics, chemistry, archaeology, practical life skills..everything, everyone should go and have a look..
Their site is still under construction, so a visit to the actual place is a must.
said:
that is one good reputation they are offering me
from United Kingdom
Maybe we could use this oppertunity to invite Zaha Hadid to come to Jordan and do a similar activity with the Kids here, perhaps this can be arranged through the children museum somehow, it would be nice if a number of schoolchildren who woulden't usually get the oppertunity to participate in such a thing get invited?