{"id":92291,"date":"2025-07-07T09:22:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T09:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/?p=92291"},"modified":"2025-09-25T12:30:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T12:30:24","slug":"quot-the-peacock-s-kingdom-quot-workshop-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/education\/educational-programmes-en\/quot-the-peacock-s-kingdom-quot-workshop-for-children","title":{"rendered":"THE PEACOCK&#8217;S KINGDOM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A unique four-day educational workshop for children aged 8\u201310 with artist Driant Zeneli, blending myth, robotics, and imagination was realized from September 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0until the 5<sup>th<\/sup>. Animals, machines, and humans come together, drawing inspiration from Hera\u2019s peacock, a sacred, watchful, and dazzling bird. By building two robotic creatures, a peacock and a dog, the children created a fantastical kingdom where art, science, and fiction merged into a collective artwork.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\">The children:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\">Explored the myth of the peacock and its symbolism<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">Discovered the world of robotics through playful experimentation with experts<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">Collaborated<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">Designed robotic animal characters through drawing, clay modeling, and construction<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">Created a living fairy tale set \u2014 inhabited by newly imagined robotic creatures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\">The workshop took place within the framework of the exhibition\u00a0<i>Why Look At Animals?<\/i> at EM\u03a3\u03a4 in collaboration with the museum&#8217;s Education Department and BrainBots Center Robotics. It is part of <i>The Alternative Atelier<\/i>, an experimental educational initiative that explores the connection between artistic practices and pedagogical research.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A unique four-day educational workshop for children aged 8\u201310 with artist Driant Zeneli, blending myth, robotics, and imagination was realized from September 2nd\u00a0until the 5th. Animals, machines, and humans come together, drawing inspiration from Hera\u2019s peacock, a sacred, watchful, and dazzling bird. By building two robotic creatures, a peacock and a dog, the children created [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":92296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-exhibition-post.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,123],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92291"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92777,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92291\/revisions\/92777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}