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Using Art, Technology and Kindness for Creative Freedom.

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I create workshops and contribute to research in academia. I experiment with new forms of education and how they can transform children's lives. Welcome to Glück Workshops!

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WORKSHOPS

War Child and Pass the Crayon

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I’m proud to present a new series of activities brought to you by a collaborative effort between the NGOs Pass the Crayon, War Child and my project Glück Workshops....

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Characters and technology

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A character exploration playground involving technology and a lot of play!

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Lectures

Lecture at Pictoplasma Festival

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Pictoplasma is a Contemporary Arts Festival focused on Character Design, happening in Berlin every year. I had the opportunity to showcase my work in front of a big audience.

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Lecture at the University of Sheffield

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I was invited by the University of Sheffield to give a lecture about Glück Workshops followed by an animation workshop.

Lectures

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My name is Deborah Rodrigues (aka Tartaruga Feliz). I work with Art and technology. With Glück Workshops and my explorations in these fields, I bring ideas for activities with children, inviting them...

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Childhood Development & the Importance of Play: An Interview with Tartaruga Feliz

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They say “it takes a village to raise a child.” In keeping with our ongoing commitment to impact producing, while bringing to birth such a multifaceted ‘child’ as the Congo Tales project, we needed many allies, guides and support along the way. To uncover and develop native stories through the eyes of children deep in the rainforest, we needed a strong community of dedicated and skilled individuals. To insure the health of this child, we needed a “village.” Deborah, better known as “Tartaruga Feliz”, was a very important part of this village, playing a vital role in the development stage of our project. In the very early stages of this work’s inception, she journeyed to Congo to volunteer within and also to teach the teacher program with SPAC. By initiating creative storytelling workshops that focused on character design, she was able to tap into a remarkable reserve of creative potential within the children of Odzala. Using her advanced skills in early childhood development, the results were remarkable and became a big inspiration for the project and its creative...

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Projects I'm proud to be part of

Partners

Pass the Crayon

I’ve teamed up with the NGO Pass the Crayon in 2019 and since then we’ve been creating a lot of workshops together! We even had a very exciting collaboration...

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Tate Britain

I was invited to be part of the first digital day celebrated at Tate Britain, in London. ‘Imagine If‘ focused on learning through playing using technology and the artworks...

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Fantasy Kids

Fantasy Kids is an incredible theme park in Taichung, Taiwan. I went there and played with children for over a month. More information here.

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Junior Lab

Junior Lab is an incredible project happening sporadically in Berlin. You can see how I participated here, here and here.

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Pictoplasma

My dream came true: I was one of the artists invited for the 14th Pictoplasma Festival! I gave a lecture about my work, had a solo exhibition and played...

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VR and Childhood

I work for MakEY, a research program funded by the European Union. You can read about my Virtual Reality and childhood research here. More information can be found here and if...

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Sheffield University

Lecture about my work and workshop about stop motion animation for the researchers at the University of Sheffield. More information here.

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Vai Kai

I love Vai Kai and its vision on what toys should be like. I worked with adults and we created new toys based on emotions. Here you can see...

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Tales of Us

Workshops with Congolese children about storytelling and character design using nature as materials. More information here, here and here.

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Royal College of Arts

I was invited by Dylan Yamada-Rice (researcher and tutor) for a talk and AR workshop at the Royal College of Arts. She wrote an article about it, you can...

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