Invention Parks is a learning network where children, teenagers and artists cocreate, collaborate and express themselves through artistic, social and scientific experiments. The programme includes creative laboratories and immersions in urban and natural environments, where humans, nonhumans, local matters and discarded materials assemble in interactive spaces, fantastic costumes, mechanical creatures, musical instruments, inflatables, games, images and sounds. These artefacts are used to remix realities, broaden repertories, express and rehearse desirable futures.
Lívia Diniz has created the Invention Parks.
She designs playful spaces where humans and non-humans co-create multilinear narratives, interactive creatures and artefacts to imagine desirable futures. She weaves individual ideas and activates collaborative actions through transdisciplinary practices related to childhood. She went to Cinema and Fine Arts schools in Rio de Janeiro where she co-directed carnival parades along with their expanded experiences which happened in different places and formats throughout 12 years. Transmidia experiments, design/architecture workshops, music videos, exhibitions… in the past 20 years she has engaged in artistic productions and investigations in 17 countries with festivals, networks, indigenous villages, favelas, schools, universities, theatres, artistic and activist projects, museums, residencies, maker spaces, research and cultural centres, planetariums, etc.
2020 - 2023 April - October | Lunel, France
The trees of our dreams - Carnival created by children with the Festival Internationales de la guitare
2020 - 2023 February | Montpellier, France
Cafofo's Carnival workshops at Yeobi, Federation of International Associations
2023 February | Faial, Azores
Invention Parks audiovisual residency at AvistaVulcão
2023 January - February | Ponta Delgada, Azores
Invention Parks' Transdisciplinary course at Human Academy
IF THESE STREETS WERE OURS with Lívia Diniz, Marco Torre and Habitat Açores
This course was a transdisciplinary and creative experience to stimulates the curiosity of children and young people of the Island of São Miguel. The intention was to let the imaginary of Carnival, Natália Correia's poetry and the rural, urban and natural beauties in. We expressed our desirable futures for the islands. With the youth, we developed learning laboratories in which the children in-bodied magical creatures, composed melodies, costumes and narratives to celebrate their culture and nature. Songs, dances, knowledge, new ways of looking at things, dreams and fantasies arose and spread.