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Interactive learning space at the Constitutional Court
Where young people experience the constitution interactively
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What are the rules of the Austrian state? Who makes sure they are followed? And what does all this actually have to do with everyday life? School classes will explore these questions in the newly designed learning space of the Forum Verfassung foundation at the Constitutional Court.
The foundation has a statutory mandate to make the constitution and constitutional jurisdiction accessible to young people. checkpointmedia is responsible for the design of the room, the former deliberation chamber of the Constitutional Court. Until 2020 the constitutional judges deliberated and decided here behind closed doors. A room that was never open to the public now opens up to young people.
At hands-on stations the young people discuss the basic principles of the Austrian constitution, build the hierarchy of the legal order together and match fundamental rights to concrete situations from their everyday lives. At the interactive round table they find out who the people behind the office are and how a decision comes about. Finally, in the Court’s hearing room, they deliberate, decide and justify a case that the Constitutional Court has actually dealt with.
Knowledge is not lectured but worked out, tested and discussed together. The interactive workshop exhibition was tested with a focus group from the target audience.
Credits
Content concept & participatory education: Michaela Schierhuber, Daniela Diesner (Stiftung Forum Verfassung)
Marie-Therese Störck, Martina Lais (Constitutional Court)
Project management & dramaturgy: Virgil Widrich (checkpointmedia)
Spatial design: Marc Schuran (checkpointmedia)
Educational concept & text: Beatrice Jaschke (purpurkultur)
Graphic concept: Ivonne Gracia Murillo
Graphic design: Judith Mullan
Illustrations: Reinhilde Becker
Exhibition construction: Winter Artservice