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The Architecture of Peace: A Dialogue Across Generations at the Museum of the Army
Read more: The Architecture of Peace: A Dialogue Across Generations at the Museum of the ArmyUnder the golden dome of the Hôtel des Invalides, History doesn’t just sit behind glass; it interrogates you. It was within these monumental walls, surrounded by centuries of heavy stone and the artifacts of the Museum of the Army in Paris, that we gathered a cohort of international children for a MOSHI workshop. The question…
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A Recess Reimagined: Defining Community in Motion
Read more: A Recess Reimagined: Defining Community in MotionAs humans are social animals, we wanted to use stop-motion filmmaking to teach children the philosophical principles of economy during the MOSHI camp in Long Island City, NY. The philosophical question of the last day was: what is community? The debate took place while participants wrote the screenplay about bunnies and bears fighting for the…
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A Recess Reimagined: The Story of MOSHI Camp New York
Read more: A Recess Reimagined: The Story of MOSHI Camp New YorkThe Moshi philo-artistic camp in New York took place in Long Island City during the 2018 school recess. Long Island City is a New York middle-class neighborhood located in Queens with a magnificent view on Manhattan. Children participants went to public schools attending a multitude of after-school activities. The participants had various ethnic and religious…
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A New Era of Wonder: Shaping MOSHI Vision
Read more: A New Era of Wonder: Shaping MOSHI VisionWhen we launched MOSHI in 2015, the lack of attention and memory impairment in digital native population was one problem we wanted to tackle. Therefore, improving brain memory plasticity was very important. During our workshops at Paris Plages, participants were asked to summarize or formulate in their own way what was said before. It helped…
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A New Era of Wonder: MOSHI Makes Its Parisian Debut
Read more: A New Era of Wonder: MOSHI Makes Its Parisian DebutWhen an idea blooms in the mind, it is a whole world that opens. The philo-artistic concept MOSHI was born from an audiovisual project for children that consisted of a series of short animations traveling with Fredo and Moshi 🥸 {aka Friedrich Nietzsche} and his moustache into world history through the lens of philosophical concepts.…