Working around the clock: London- Brazil Intercultural Online Collaboratiion

Elim and Harsita, working and discussing the project, discussing ideas with Marit and Ria regarding Names, Blogs, Leaflets, Archives and presentations.

This project describes a moment or experience between two countries, Brazil and the UK sharing their skills and art through the use of social media. This sounds like an easy, collaborative project but it was difficult to implement, mainly due to reasons like timezones, communal setups, deadlines and language barriers. Initially, both sides of the collaboration were too shy and reciprocating topics were difficult. We sent the works we produced in the first term which were films, illustrations and depended on the students in Brazil to choose the topic of their interests that they could elaborate and use as a basis to create a film. After this process, being in touch was becoming hard because of the deadlines that the students in Brazil were trying to complete the project by. To make things easier we began to send small introductions of ourselves through an Application known as slack. All the communication taken place had been recorded to make a short video on the collabor...