WORKSHOP: Co-Designing Participatory Animation: Exploring Collaborative Approaches to Animation Making
This workshop explores how animation’s narrative, visual strategies, and unique language can function as a collaborative framework for bringing diverse voices together. Centering collaboration within the animation-making process, it introduces participatory approaches that invite public engagement into creative, hands-on production. Working in small groups, participants will co-develop methods through mapping, discussion, and prototyping, fostering shared authorship, dialogue, and meaningful exchange across different backgrounds. These co-designed approaches will then be tested through the collective creation of short stop-motion animation prototypes.
The workshop is led by Nairy Eivazy and Natalie Wolf, members of Animating Together, a FilmEU dynamic cluster that explores the transformative potential of collective storytelling through participatory animation.