A “Speaker's Corner” at Manuel Teixeira Gomes Secondary School? Why not?! Yeah, we're not in Hyde Park, but the 11th S, an arts class, thinks that young people “scratch out” too. And they want to leave marks.
It all started with a challenge placed in a Philosophy class, which was immediately accepted and named “Our Speaker's Corner”.
The opening is tomorrow, November 18, World Philosophy Day, at 10 am, at the Manuel Teixeira Gomes Secondary School (ESMTG), in Portimão.
It is about creating a space in the school gardens that is a symbol of free thought and a stimulus to freedom of expression, the exercise of citizenship and the promotion of inclusion.
Inspired by the mythical Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park, London (where, since 1872, Londoners can freely express their opinions and make their criticisms, as long as they do not touch British soil), the Speaker's Corner da Teixeira will be dedicated to informal and spontaneous debates, outdoor classes or any other activities (educational, artistic or recreational) that the members of the school community decide to undertake.
In addition, the garden space where it is located becomes “O canteiro das Artes” and will be intervened with the plants, flowers and sculptures that students and students of the Arts decide to place there.
Students expect this to be just the first of several outdoor facilities designed and built by the students of ESMTG, as a contribution to the redevelopment of the school's gardens and to encourage the use of outdoor spaces in the group's pedagogical dynamics.
It will consist of a wooden platform with an accessible ramp, a wooden panel with the identification of the project and a set of small benches for listeners with mobility difficulties, almost all made with used materials obtained from the educational community, namely those responsible for education .
The small benches will be painted so that, as a whole, they include the different colors of the rainbow, as a symbol of the defense of non-discrimination for reasons of sexual orientation.
The design and production of the equipment is the responsibility of the 11th S and the project involved guardians, the Philosophy and Visual Arts groups and the direction of the Manuel Teixeira Gomes Group.
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