Live 2011 Event Award @ Mindtrek

Live 2011 Grand Prix Event Award at Mindtrek has been awarded to Donkeypedia.

Donkeypedia is a cross media project with a donkey that travels through European nations, a quest for the identity of children and youngsters. The donkey is very modern, he will carry various devices (laptop, GPS, camera etc). All this equipment is being charged by solar power. The Donkey will be digitally directed by local children, from village to city, from province to province, from nation to nation. Children will collect stories, art expressions, movies and objects that represent something essential about their place and its residents, resulting in a kaleidoscopic platform that reveals the European identity bit by bit, step by step. A donkey has big ears for listening to stories, and he can carry stuff. In this way he can collected and learn about the countries he’s visiting.

Children at home can follow his track live on the website. The pictures and the movies that are being taken, are uploaded and automatically positioned on the route. Also descriptions of images and tags are created by the children online. The website contains spirals where you can uncluster every single event. Every picture has got to be tagged to be traced on a different level. With words like: scary, pretty, challenging or dreamy. This way images and videos are poetically related to each other.

Donkeypedia is a production of 4xM - www.4xM.nl
The Donkeypedia walk is originated by Cristian Bettini

Visit Donkeypedia at www.donkeypedia.nl