Animation Production
Animation Production
BlueDar Lab creates workshops in art, media, and creative technologies for children and young adults.
Building on years of educational and artistic experience, the lab provides opportunities for hands-on exploration of tools such as animation, augmented reality, green screen, generative AI, VR storytelling, and digital media, enabling young participants to experiment, express their ideas, and develop contemporary creative skills.
The Paper TV
Media Education
Paper TV
Workshops in Art, Media, and Augmented Reality
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Berlin, Germany 2021-2025
Gaziantep, Turkey 2022
Paper TV is a paper-based screen that displays digital content through Augmented Reality.
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The project combines media, art, and technology, offering children and young adults the opportunity to create their own channels using techniques such as green screen, drawing and collage, animation, visual effects, music, generative AI, video recording, and editing, giving participants creative tools to express their ideas.
Since 2022, Paper TV has delivered more than 60 workshops, training over 600 children and young people in Berlin and Gaziantep. The project is designed as an interdisciplinary educational experience and has been implemented in collaboration with artists, organizations, schools, and youth centers.
Paper TV is a non-profit art project founded by artist Sulafa Hijazi.
The Berlin workshops were co-developed in collaboration with artist Caram Kapp, while the Gaziantep workshops were co-developed in partnership with Kassem Abrash.
Every Story
Matters
Augmented Reality Digital Storytelling
Five workshops trained around 50 children and young adults in Berlin.
The workshops introduced participants to the basics of digital narrative and storytelling through Augmented Reality.
Run by Bluedar, with the cooperation of ReDI School of Digital Integration in Berlin, and the support of Creative Europe.​ 2020.
My World
Global Education
The project consists of workshops that explore global education through conceptual art practice, engaging children in Saraqep in northern Syria and in Tokyo, Japan.
The workshops introduce participants to themes such as our planet, peace building, conflict resolution, and communication through interactive, play based activities.
Each child also creates an imaginary world by transforming a simple ball into a personal art piece.
Produced by Kineko international children film festival in Tokyo, with the partnership of Bluedar - Berlin, and the cooperation of Al Caravan Syria. 2017.
The Memory Box
Animation
A 15-day animation workshop that trained around 40 children and young adults who had been displaced by the wars in countries like Iraq and Afghanistan and sought refuge in Syria. The workshop offered a creative and emotional space where participants revisited personal memories while imagining hopes for the future.
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Each participant created a “memory box,” selecting a personal story, writing and recording its narration, designing characters, and animating their own short sequence.
The project resulted in three final outputs:
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An animated short film composed of the children’s individual stories, written, voiced, illustrated, and animated by them.
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A comic book featuring drawings and stories created during the workshop.
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A documentary film capturing the process, daily life, and personal reflections of the participants in Sayyida Zainab, where many of their families had settled.
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★ The animation short film from The Memory Box received the Special Jury Award at the 7th Kazan International Festival of Muslim Cinema (Russia, 2011).
Organized by HELP e.V, created and undertaken by Bluedar- Syria, and financed by the German Foreign office 2011.
