Workshop Overview
Typography, Stop Motion & Democratic Education: Making Identity Visible – Shaping Diversity Together
In this 2.5-day workshop, participants creatively explore the question “Identity – Who Do We Become?”. They develop their own shapes, letters and stamps, combining them into individual words, concepts and symbols. These become personal forms of expression connected to identity, cultural background, language, belonging or lived experience.
The workshop combines cultural and civic education with creative media practice. Participants discover that democracy is shaped not only by rules and elections, but also by people sharing their perspectives, listening to others, accepting differences and working together to make decisions and shape how we live together.
Part I – My Perspective
The workshop begins with a selection of short stop-motion animations. These films spark a conversation about how different people express their identities and whose perspectives are represented in the media.
Participants then develop their own typographic elements. They create words and symbols that hold personal meaning and experiment with different printing and design techniques. Each person decides which experiences, thoughts and perspectives they wish to share.
Part II – Moving Together
Step by step, participants learn the basics of stop-motion animation and create their first animations using their stamps.
The focus goes beyond technical skills: participants collaborate, exchange ideas and experience how individual contributions can come together to form a shared creation. They learn to express their own ideas while taking those of others into account.
Part III – Many Voices, One Shared Work
The individual contributions come together in a collaborative animation project. Different words, symbols and perspectives are connected, making diversity visible.
Creating this shared work becomes a democratic process in itself: participants make decisions together, negotiate different ideas and find compromises. They discover that creating something together does not mean everyone has to be the same. Instead, different voices can each have their place and contribute equally to the community.
Maximum group size: 6–8 participants
Duration: 2.5 days
Dates: 5–7 October 2026, 2:00–6:00 p.m.
Workshop leader: Catalina Giraldo Vélez
Who can take part: Young people, school students and adults
Cooperation partner: Paper Plane Animation
Location: Mehrgenerationenhaus Weimar West
What to bring: A smartphone or tablet with the free “Stop Motion Studio” app installed (available for Android and iOS).
Catalina Giraldo
Workshop leader
Catalina Giraldo is a graphic designer and media artist who has lived in Weimar since 2011. Her work spans print and digital design as well as experimental animation, with a particular focus on poetry film. She is a member of the leadership team of PoetryFilmTage in Weimar. From 2016, she also worked as a lecturer at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.
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