Architects Of Change Phase III, Graffiti Walls

Architects of Change Phase III workshops also incorporated a group graffiti wall as a brainstorming tool in a group setting, allowing the children to delve deeper into themes discussed in previous workshops but in a collective setting to participate in group discussions throughout the six workshops. The facilitators asked the children to express their opinions and perspectives on the workshop topics by creating drawings, writing, or scribbling on the graffiti wall.

The group graffiti wall served as a valuable group activity and demonstrated the children's exceptional skill in portraying their workshop learnings. Incorporating the graffiti wall into the workshops also helped to foster the children's collective generation of ideas about environmental issues, climate change, and local communities. This also aided the facilitators in comprehending how the children express and conceptualise their concerns, anxieties, and aspirations for the future in relation to their communities and the environment.

All the children took pleasure from this activity, which facilitated their collaboration and enabled them to articulate their thoughts while attentively listening to one another. This activity also exemplifies the significance of the workshops by showcasing the knowledge the children gained from each workshop and integrating it into their artistic creations. The children expressed their concerns about subjects such as climate change, a warming planet, human negative impacts on natural resources, and habitat destruction.

But, with every negative action illustrated in the graffiti walls, there are many positive actions the children have drawn: cleaning waterways, planting more trees, protecting our native wildlife, and harnessing solar and wind power. These graffiti walls give a collective insight into the children's lens to explore what it means for the future of our planet.

The facilitators selected the best graffiti wall from each school and awarded it with an environmental children's book, such as 'Kids Fight Plastic', 'What a Waste', or 'Greta and the Giants', to encourage the children to continue their environmental journeys. The facilitators transformed all the graffiti walls into framed artistic creations, showcasing them on graduation day and then returning them as gifts to the school.