Now showing at LUMA Arles: David Armstrong, Liu Chuang, Maria Lassnig, Philippe Parreno, and Tony Oursler

Now showing at LUMA Arles: David Armstrong, Liu Chuang, Maria Lassnig, Philippe Parreno, and Tony Oursler
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Educational program of LUMA Arles

Since 2015, LUMA Arles has been implementing a dedicated educational program for young audiences in Arles.

A program spanning from preschool through university

 

Since 2015, LUMA Arles has been developing an educational program that delivers workshops for young audiences in schools across Arles, in neighboring cultural institutions, and at the Parc des Ateliers. 

Many children and students—from preschool through university—have had the opportunity to explore a wide range of themes, including architecture, landscape, design, contemporary creation, environmental issues, and topics related to LUMA Arles’ artistic program. 

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Student work created with the support of a visiting artist as part of the ‘The Creatives: Art in the Classroom!’ program."
Photo: © Adrian Deweerdt

Themes Explored

  • ENVIRONMENT

  • ART

  • ARCHITECTURE

  • DESIGN

  • URBANISM

  • VISUAL ARTS

  • MUSIC

  • DRAWING

  • WRITING

  • HISTORY

  • SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

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Throughout 2024, the year of the Olympic Games, students imagined and created woven murals that combined art and sport.
Photo: © Adrian Deweerdt

Key Figures of the Education Program

More than 13,500

students in Arles have taken part since 2015.

38

schools in Arles have taken part in activities and initiatives at LUMA Arles.

450

average annual attendees at the Educational Program Exhibition

The Educational Program Exhibition


Each year, a dedicated moment of presentation brings together students, their families, and their teachers at the heart of the Parc des Ateliers to celebrate the outcomes of the educational projects.

This exhibition highlights not only the students’ creations, but also the experiences they have lived throughout the year.

Their work is presented as part of LUMA Arles’ exhibition program. The students exhibit as true artists, sharing their works and projects with the wider public.

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Ongoing Projects


Preschool


Compose Your City
This playful activity invites young children to collectively build the city of the future, inspired by aerial views of Arles and the Parc des Ateliers. Using soft, colorful shapes, foam volumes, and wooden characters, they step into the shoes of budding urban planners to imagine waterways, green spaces, streets, and homes.

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The Shapes of The Tower

The activity unfolds in two parts: a short visit to The Tower to look for the geometric forms that make up this remarkable building, followed by a hands-on workshop in which young children are invited to experiment with geometric shapes to imagine, individually or in groups, their own original constructions.

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Elementary School


Where is your place in Nature? Repositioning humans within biodiversity 

The project "Where is your place in Nature? Replacing humans within biodiversity" invites students to consider more attentively the environment, the seasonal cycles, and the knowledge of plant species through encountering the vegetable garden of La Chassagnette located in the heart of the Camargue, and the landscaped park of the Parc des Ateliers in Arles.

The aim of the project is to introduce children to the life cycle of the plant world, from its beginning as a seed to its end, on a plate. The workshop also promotes the understanding of the seasonality of plants, fruits and vegetables, to develop the students observation of nature, discovery, respect for the environment and biodiversity in the Arles area.

The project is divided into several phases that include:

  • Classroom interventions to develop essential knowledge about topics related to biodiversity.

  • Time spent in the gardens with in-situ discovery of the flora and fauna in the kitchen garden of La Chassagnette as well as in the landscaped park of the Parc des Ateliers created by Bas Smets.

  • Moments to taste the seasonal fruits and vegetables.

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The children discover the vegetable garden and farm at La Chassagnette.
Photo: © Adrian Deweerdt

The Parc des Ateliers, a transformation with a thousand facets  

Launched in 2021, “Le Parc des Ateliers, a transformation with a thousand facets” was created to introduce elementary school students to the historical, landscape, architectural and cultural richness of LUMA Arles. 

This project takes place over the school year and invites young students from Arles to understand the transformations of the Parc des Ateliers, from its ancient origins to the present day, during several sessions, including two on site. They thus approach different layers of the history of the Parc des Ateliers: Roman necropolis, railway workshops, landscaped park, exhibition spaces...

In addition, a reflection on the architecture of The Tower and the LUMA Arles campus is part of the program that rethinks the relationship to work and to contemporary creation.

Creative objects 

LUMA Arles invites students to discover the links between everyday objects and their environment.

From the study of biomimicry and a reflection on raw materials, children put themselves in the shoes of a designer to create moving objects that react to natural elements (water, air, earth and so on). This project proposes a creative workshop to school groups led by a LUMA Arles guide: creating a reactive object that rolls, float or fly. The objects are then tested in The Tower and the landscaped park of LUMA Arles.
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Create, invent, share: whether in the classroom or at LUMA Arles, children are free to let their imagination roam.
Photo: © Adrian Deweerdt

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Middle and High School


Initiated in 2019 "The Creatives: art in the classroom!" invites students to create a project around an artistic field (photography, fine arts, design, architecture, etc.) accompanied by an artist-intervenor with regular practice in this field.

This educational program is offered to middle and high school students in the city of Arles.

The experience includes a visit to the Parc des Ateliers followed by workshop sessions done in class. Focusing on a chosen theme, the students and the artist-intervenor collaborate to create a collective work, beginning with the reflection to its production.

The objectives of this project is to promote, with the students, the development of an aesthetic judgment and an artistic criticism through experimentation. This project also emphasizes the notions of production and collective creation.

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High school students imagine and create a comic book alongside a visiting artist.
Photo: © Adrian Deweerdt

Past Projects

In addition to current educational projects, there are past projects developed in connection with the artistic program of LUMA Arles.

Architectures and landscapes

"Architectures and landscapes" was one of the projects created by LUMA Arles throughout the construction of the Parc des Ateliers, with the aim of raising student’s awareness of contemporary architecture and landscaping.

The first educational project developed by LUMA Arles, "Architectures and Landscapes" was proposed to several schools across Arles.

Since 2015, more than 1,000 students have participated in this project. Over the year, they were in budding architects and landscape designers ‘place.

After a visit of the Parc des Ateliers, several sessions were conducted in class by mediators. Educational tools were entrusted to teachers and their students so that they could develop an architectural and landscape project, the culmination of which was the production of models.

From the thread to the catwalk

During the Gucci Cruise fashion show, held at the Alyscamps necropolis on the 30th of May 2018, LUMA Arles worked with ANTI_FASHION and the city of Arles, organized educational workshops centered on the fashion industry.

This project called “du Fil au DéFILé” brought together five schools, public actors in the social field and a training center. The 300 or so participants thus discovered during the course of this educational program, the transformation of fabric, from a thread to the creation of a garment.

LUMA promotion

As part of a three-year partnership (2017-2020), LUMA Arles sponsored the "Industrial Boilermaking Technician" class at the Lycée Professionnel Charles Privat in Arles. The program, titled “Promotion LUMA”, offered students insight into the professional world through a series of immersive workshops.

In collaboration with the teaching team, The Foundation guided and supported the 28 students from the same academic specialty through a varied program that included tours of the Parc des Ateliers and The Tower, meetings with professionals from different fields (farming, cultivation, building, industry…) and integration in work sites.

In the skin of a designer

Since 2018, LUMA Arles has offered the workshop "In the Skin of a Designer" as part of the extracurricular program of the city of Arles.

This atelier, focused on the theme of design, was originally presented in an original format that resonated with the research and experimentation carried out at Atelier LUMA.

This project raises awareness of the designer's role through a cycle of creative and interactive workshops. In the company the designer Lucille Bouroullec, students of Arles summer programs discovered different manufacturing processes, techniques and materials.

During a cycle of 6 sessions held on Wednesdays, the children worked together to design an original collection of thoughtful objects that question the themes of identity, relationships with others and our links to the environment.

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Sewing workshop as part of the ‘Du Fil au DéFILé’ project: students explore fashion craftsmanship and the transformation of materials, from a simple thread to the creation of a garment.
Photo: © Joana Luz