Intercultural Building Project (Zürich ZH)
Description: The youth center “Dynamo” is a public place in Zurich that offers possibilities for young people to realize their own projects. Dynamo offers public work areas, meeting rooms and stages for concerts. It is a place of encounter and a great place for art interested people to network and develop new projects and ideas. This summer we would like to support local, Zurich based social projects by assisting them with building their projects. Two years ago as an example a sundeck for the cultural place "Parkplatz" was created in Zurich out of wood, metal and textiles. Last year the group of volunteers constructed a minigolf course. We always try to use leftover materials from our workshops or upcycle old things.
Type of Work: We will be working with various techniques such as woodworking, metalworking, and in general with up-and recycling. There are also the possibilities to include textile working or screen-printing into the project. If you already have a specific know-how in one of these techniques, it would be great! Or if you have other ideas or skills to contribute to the project in whatever way – please let us know. Please be aware that you will not work with local volunteers but always within the SCI volunteer group.
Study Theme: Everything about the youth center “Dynamo” and the project will be presented to the volunteers at the beginning of the week. You will learn about different techniques (wood– and metalworking) and about common space and ways to use it.
Accommodation: The Dynamo provides: 1x mattress per person, 1x fitted sheet per person, washing machine is available; showers and bed rooms for volunteers are available and can be split by genders, 1x toilet in the residential, more toilets in the main building and working areas, internet available. Volunteers are responsible for food shopping and cooking in the evening. We recommend you to limit your meat consumption, so as to contribute to the camp’s principle of sustainability. For lunch we will have food from our restaurant. It is planned to have vegetarian and vegan diet.
Language: Work instructions in basic English will be provided and the camp coordinator will help translating further details in English to the volunteers if needed. The local language is Swiss German.
Requirements: Do you want to learn more techniques and realize a concrete project in Zurich? You should be ready to be offline during all workshops, working sessions and leisure time activities.
Notes: You will be able to participate in 1-2 excursions around Zurich (for free). Please note that Zurich is rather expensive compared to other places in Switzerland.
SCI Switzerland believes that in the current state of pollution and production of waste material, it is necessary to reduce consumption and try to prevent waste from being created: reuse, reduce and recycle.
INCOMING/ADDITIONAL FEE for volunteers applying via Partner organisations & Contacts of SCI: https://scich.org/en/incoming-fee/
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