Developing Nordic cultural collaborations

The core partnership includes the cultural institutions and educational institutions of Kópavogur municipality (IS) and the museums for children’s literature in Odense (DK), Tampere (FI) and Haapsalu (EE). The partners first came together through a networking project supported by Nordic Culture Point and Nordic Culture Fund. The collaborators combined their unique and complementary skill sets, […]

Purpose of the Water drop

The purpose of the project is to bring together the four partner institutions as well as school children and young people from across the Nordic region. Together, they will develop and implement a cultural program that connects Nordic children’s literature with joint Nordic values and the UN Development Goals, such as sustainability and equality.  Thereby, […]

Children in charge

What does it mean to have “children in charge”? For the Water Drop Culture Project, it means directly involving children in the creation of cultural programming in the partner museums by inviting children to have a say and voice their opinion. To do this we have developed the Young Curators initiative, which invites Nordic children […]

Children’s Literature and the UN Goals

“A water drop is, by nature, an entire world for itself, and the whole environment is reflected in it.” -H.C. Andersen Water has always been a popular subject of poets, and the ocean plays a significant role in the United Nation Sustainable Development Goals. A central theme of the Water Drop is connecting the messages […]

The Concept Box

Peter Worley’s children’s Storythinking Handbook “Once Upon an If” (2014) is a central methodological tool for the Water Drop. “The Concept box is a general technique for helping children develop their own discussions around central concepts (fairness, love, punishment etc.) without the need for task questions. It broadens out and then focuses in. Isolating concepts […]