We offered information material to everybody engaged in the work with refugees. Our charts helped to systematically address and thematise important topics from everyday life in Germany. Please contacted us and we sent you our picture package by mail!
Our target group
Our pictures helped to make important topics of everyday life more understandable for refugees. We supported everyone who explained topics of everyday life in Germany and could use our strong pictures. People worked in aid organisations, refugee shelters, or were volunteer helpers. To be understood language-independently, our posters mainly used pictures and pictograms and reduced text elements to a minimum.
Development
We began with intensive conversations with organizations from and around Munich, and over more than a year of research and development, we crafted our picture package. During this period, we recognized that abundant information about official and administrative issues was already available. However, for problematic situations and daily life activities, there existed minimal supportive material. In various shelters, we were informed about similar challenges that refugees faced in their daily routines. Consequently, we produced five posters that addressed the topics of hygiene, emergencies, the process of opening and using a bank account, and the principle of solidarity.
Our package
We offered to send you our pictures printed and put together in one package by mail. Two formats of each poster were included in the package. Big posters in size A0 could be used to talk about topics in a larger group. To present the poster in a didactically appropriate way, we proposed to first cover some parts and then reveal the whole poster piece by piece. Posters in A2 were suitable to explain topics in smaller groups, e.g., at a desk. After a presentation in a group, those posters could be hung up. To thematize the topic of hygiene directly in the bathroom, small stickers, which could be attached near the bathroom mirror, the toilet, or in the shower, were also enclosed.
We hoped our poster could help you address individual topics specifically. Perhaps they fit well in a weekly education or dialogue format, or they inspired you to design similar pictures by yourself. In any case, we wished you good luck!
The following materials were included in our package:
- one poster in size A0 for each of the five topics (hygiene, emergencies, opening a bank account, using a bank account, and the principle of solidarity)
- two posters in size A2 for each of the five topics (hygiene, emergencies, opening a bank account, using a bank account, and the principle of solidarity)
- ten sets of the poster “hygiene” as small stickers
- accompanying texts with additional explanations for all posters.
Team
Picturise was a diverse group of engaged students from different disciplines of the Technische Universität München, who worked together within the TUM: Junge Akademie.
We were:
Caroline Adam, Lena Appel, Christoph Dehner, Sonja Fuchs, Rupert Heindl, Philipp Marzak, Franz Seitz, Jasmin Sowa, Benedict Zillinger, Martin Zirngibl
Tutors:
- Roland Fuchsberger
- Elisabeth Gleisinger
- Maximilian Schreieck
Mentors:
- Felix Mayer (MCTS)
- Dr. Manuel Wiesche (Research Department Mathematics Centre)
- Prof. Dr. Walter Timo de Vries (Land management)
Graphical design:
- Anna Várnai