OUR SPACE - THE WHITE HOUSE

Regular viewers and readers of news reports may get the impression that the world is a gloomy place. War, disease, rising prices, fraud, corruption, inequality. Today's media devote most of their space to the realities that threaten us. It is perhaps understandable, but at the same time a little unfair. After all, all around us, there are endless good things happening alongside the bad. People are helping each other, caring for their families, meeting friends and working towards their dreams. We would like to take the opportunity offered by the Our Space - White House challenge and try to use our artistic intervention to to try to correct this imbalance and bring a simple message into the public space: "We must not lose hope." We dream of transforming the space in front of the White House into a space that allows the general public to share the good with others.

The area around the children's clinic and the private primary school and gymnasium LABYRINTH is a place primarily serving children, but its facilities are not adapted to this age group to the extent that they deserve. The starting point of the large-scale painting is the grasp of the space through children's eyes and the possibility to inspire the realisation potential of children's ideas. How do the children, who use the space the most, view it? When visualizing the large-scale painting, we started from the objects and chalk drawings in the area in front of the White House during the one-day workshop "ENTER THE WHITE HOUSE 1.0 or be part of your surroundings", which was attended by the general public, children and pupils from the local school. Our aim is to create a place that not only encourages children to take action and be creative, but to make the space in front of the White House come alive and become a meeting point for the general public, who will together absorb the atmosphere of playfulness and peacefulness.