At first, before weekly meetings, we had preliminary “Pillow/Cushion” task: Every participant was asked to make a pillow or cushion and then afterwards post it to Turku for the seating area in EduCity at the media wall space. Participants were asked to link their pillow design to some ideas about public and private space and the space of learning in the digital climate of Covid 19 restrictions.

The pillows were viewed in the first online meeting. We saw many great pillows and ideas of a pillow, but in the end the pillows were not posted in Turku. However, “Pillow/Cushion” project was good icebreaker at the start of the online workshop, and we see that it is needed to integrate this kind of preliminary icebreaker task to an online workshop program. Everybody got their voice heard when they were presenting their work in the first online meeting.

The meetings with all participants were held on four days by Zoom video conference application 26th March, 16th April, 23rd April and 30th April in 2021. During the meeting days, we had an inspiration talks by the teachers from each country with various themes related to the site specify in public art, virtuality and about public art in general. The days also included discussions, pitching sessions and group work sessions. In the first meeting, we had as an addition a live contact with the site in Educity (Turku, Finland). At the end of the workshop, there was possibility to display the results of the tasks on the media wall in EduCity on Friday 30 April 2021.

In the workshop, students were divided into six groups, where their work was to create an artistic concept to the site at the EduCity, as an artistic group. The work happened mainly between the meeting days when students were organized by themselves to develop their ideas. Groups had some weekly tasks too, to help the workflow running. As a sharing platform, we used Microsoft Teams application. Every group had its own channel where they were able to share their work, find tasks and have video meetings of their own. Every group had a tutor teacher(s) that they had contact.