Inclusion project is progressing continuously with good hearing and hearing-impaired students in Hannover the art project, good listening and hearing impaired students from Hanover early February have started together. Currently, week after week, together to create works of art, which are visible and audible also meet 16 children. “” The project participants are all from the Hauptschule and Realschule Ludwig Windthorst “as well as the neighbouring Hartwig-Campbell school”, the single regional support centre with a focus on listening to the Hannover region. The organizers to review the project, which is also a contribution to the current topic of inclusion, now as a full success. The resulting artworks are presented publicly for the first time during two days of final project on 22 and 23 March.
Initiator of the project is the cochlear Germany GmbH & co. KG, a leading manufacturer of implantable hearing solutions headquartered in Hanover. “The art project titled art make visible and audible result in particular, two large snails images. The participating children of the two schools not only color make these images. Integrate a wide variety of different objects, in their work, produce the sounds. The sounding snails symbolize the human cochlea, the so called cochlear be forwarded across the Acoustic stimuli to the brain. Students are supported in their work by the art teachers of the two schools, as well as by employees of the company cochlear.
The worm works of art take shape already, and the children enjoy very much their project”, Joachim Budke, headmaster of Hartwig Campbell school reports. But above all, the cooperation brings a variety of new social experiences with. Earlier good listening and hearing impaired students had nothing to do with each other to do our two schools despite the immediate neighborhood. Thanks to the initiative of cochlear, we are now on a good path to fundamentally change this.
