Training day and co-construction of educational tools to work on self-image, designed in collaboration between theMaison de l’image (Noémie Rubat du Mérac, project manager) and Benoît Labourdette. April 26, 2018.
Summary of the day on the website of the House of the image (Grenoble, France):www.maison-image.fr/rdvi/2018-2.
Presentation text
Digital technology has changed human behaviour much more than we could have imagined: private and public life are now intertwined, changing our social relationships and our experience of intimacy. Social networks bring citizens into new ways of being connected, of valuing themselves, of existing, of becoming a society. But if images can help to be part of the world, they also represent undeniable risks: judgment, comparison, manipulation, harassment...
The intimacy was first exposed on the small screen via reality TV. Over the past ten years, with Facebook, YouTube, and others, the viewer has become an actor, producing and broadcasting content, sometimes the most violent. This phenomenon of trivialisation of hatred can be amplified by digital social networks. What is it the symptom of?
Circulating without the media filter, images have become a form of autonomous language. In what ways do they impact our concrete lives, our psyche, our body?
Dramatizing the risks associated with digital uses will not help to prevent them. Therefore, what positive, creative, constructive actions should be taken to support young people and (re)take power over images?Les Rendez-Vous de l’Image offers professionals keys to understand and action plans to support young people in their digital worlds.
The Maison de l’Image reaffirms its mission of image education and wishes to promote synergies in order to respond to the requests of professionals on these social issues.
Content, objectives and methodology
- The day began with three conferences, specialists share their tools and reflections: Flore Guattari, François Jost and Benoît Labourdette.
- Then a collective brainstorming session to design innovative educational actions, led by Benoît Labourdette, allows participants to immediately use the concepts seen during the conferences in a concrete way.
- In the afternoon, several workshops were offered in parallel. Most of them were devoted to playful tools (games) for decoding media and images. One of the workshops used brainstorming ideas to design an innovative action, which was tested the next day with young people. Another consisted of a photographic creation action in the street....
- At the end of the day, a common report of all the workshops allowed everyone to benefit from the work of others, from this diversity and from the quality of the approaches.
Detailed program:
Collective brainstorming
Innovative action designed and implemented
Restitution of all workshops:
