Families

The Educational Department of Ocean Space offers educational activities, workshops, and more for families and children both during our current exhibitions and remotely during the closing period, to explore the relationship between art and science, collective action, and awareness of the importance of the oceans in everyday life and the for the conservation of the planet.

These projects offer significant and accessible opportunities to experiment, learn while having fun, and develop creative thinking to find solutions for the protection and conservation of the environment.

Atlas of Blue, Ocean Families proposal for this year explores the connections between water, memory, and cultural continuity, in dialogue with the exhibition Tide of Returns. 

The program, dedicated to children aged 3 to 12 and their families, unfolds through a cycle of 4 multisensory workshops grounded in two central themes: symbolic repatriation and cultural continuity, and water as an element of transmission, care, and relationships. 

Through accessible artistic practices—such as collecting personal objects, constructing figures, experimenting with cyanotype and collective weaving—children and their families are invited to reflect on the relationship between individual memory and shared heritage, between land and sea, and between roots and crossings. 

Individual memories gradually emerge as part of a shared landscape, contributing to the creation of a collective blue textile—a growing fabric that becomes a visual metaphor for continuity and the interweaving of experiences.

• Saturday, April 18 | Atlas of Blue. Objects that come from the sea. Collection and storytelling of personal objects, mapping of origins, and initiation of the collective blue weaving.

• Saturday, May 23 | Atlas of Blue. Figures that guard memories. Creation of memory dolls with personal materials, between symbol, story, and tradition.

• Saturday, September 12 | Atlas of Blue. Water Reveals.
  Creating cyanotypes: light and water leave visual traces of the collected objects.

• Saturday, September 26 | Atlas of Blue. Where rivers meet the sea. Assembling the final installation and a collective presentation of the project.

Participation is free but places are limited, please book by email at education@ocean-space.org.