The fascinating story of Hawila’s wood for the refit The decision to plan millions of oaks in 1810 In 1810, after events of Napoleonic wars, the king Frederik made the decision to plant thousands of oak trees between Hillerod, Esrum and Helsinge, an area since known as the Gribskov (Vulture forest) to [...]
STEAM [science, technology, engineering, art, mathematics] workshops for kids in Isefjord Are children interested in building a robot or studying marine electronics? We have a chance to find out when spending a week with amazing boys and girls and their guardians in Isefjord. Together with kids and parents from the French-Danish school [...]
Harbour Fair for the Climate and Sailing Circus Show Into the Water 2019 Harbour Fair for the Climate - Wondering sustainable fair of ideas and goods For centuries harbors were places where people gathered to trade goods but also where ships were coming back from their overseas adventures bringing not only products [...]
Reflections on Summer 2019 Nordic Tour On the 18th of August we officially ended our Hawila Project and Acting 4 Climate joint collaboration in 2019. We have been sailing together on Hawila since June, trying to translate raising climate emergency awareness into the language of contemporary art. The tour powered by sail gave [...]
Education through action and adventure Last Friday Hawila hosted L’école franco-danoise – Den dansk-franske Skole that organized a tech workshop for daughters and the girls’ primary role model- their mothers, to churn up interest for STEM subjects. http://blog.ecolefrancodanoise.dk/model-moms The event was a continuation of our collaboration with The Danish-French School in the field of [...]
Ship-Shape - Creative Learning 2016-2018 The ShipShape project aimed at developing a scalable, free, site-specific activity where young people are confronted with stimulative learning spaces. Hawila Project, in collaboration with Welsh based organisation Head4Arts developed an activity designed to give young people and their parents/teachers a new perspective to relate to [...]
Sailing to the European Ecovillage Conference 2018 In summer 2018, Hawila sailed across the Baltic Sea to the European Global Ecovillage Conference in Estonia, a meeting of over 500 practitioners and researchers from ecovillages, sustainable initiatives and intentional communities. The Conference hosted presentations, lectures, co-creation sessions, an Sustainable Technology Expo, dance, yoga [...]
Copenhagen Dream House - Sailing City 2016 In 2016, Hawila was the vessel for nomadic performance project “Sailing City”, where acrobats, dancers, musicians and installation artists created events in collaboration with climate scientists, activists and engineers. A series of public events for all ages on the water and in harbor areas, the ship [...]
