Over the 2021-2022 school year, the Museum of Vancouver (MOV) has engaged in an innovative and international education program around the concepts of “Ideal City / Sustainable City” with Cousteau School (North Vancouver), Jules Verne’s House (Amiens, France), and Arthur Rimbaud Secondary School (Amiens, France). This education program connected a class from each school and encouraged students to share perspectives from their own countries on sustainability in cities. It aimed at engaging students in environmental issues in the city and taking action to create a more sustainable and environmentally friendly future.
Throughout the school year, Jules Verne’s House and MOV provided multiple workshops to their respective classes on sustainable cities. Students later exchanged views and ideas across the partner schools. At the end of the school year, two micro-exhibitions at MOV and Jules Verne’s House documented the work done by the students across the Atlantic.
For this project, the MOV partnered with:
Ecole Cousteau’s Grade 5 class: Cousteau, the French International School, located in North Vancouver, is the only school in British Columbia accredited by the French Ministry of Education and the British Columbia Ministry of Education. The school teaches the curricula of France and British Columbia, in French and in English, from Pre-K (from 3 years old) to Grade 9. The school welcomes 230 students from diverse cultural and linguistic origins since 30 nationalities are represented. The school has also been certified by Eco-Schools Canada since 2019.
La Calypso campus, located at the Maison de la Francophonie in Vancouver, welcomes children aged 3 and 4.
Jules Verne’s House Education Department: Jules Verne’s House is a 19th-century middle-class house, located in downtown Amiens, France, where the French novelist Jules Verne lived for 18 years (from 1882 to 1900). Today, this house-museum immerses visitors in the writer’s daily life and the magic of his novels. Jules Verne is well known for his forward-thinking novels, in which he imagined multiple futuristic and ideal cities.
Collège Rimbaud’s Grade 6 class: Arthur Rimbaud Secondary School is a school based in the city of Amiens, France. This school welcomes 500 students from Grade 6 to Grade 9 every year. 45 teachers offer rigorous lessons in a caring environment and provide students with diverse learning opportunities to broaden their horizons.
Listen to the stories behind the scale models in this exhibition
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