Unfairy Tales, three short animations –true stories of the flight of children from conflict– explain the horror behind why they fled. One story – “Ivine and the Pillow” – animates the true story of 14-year-old Ivine and her pillow. After a perilous escape from Syria, Ivine settles at a refugee camp in Germany only to face new challenges. “Malak and the Boat”, tells the tale of a young girl’s voyage in a leaky boat. The third animation depicts the story of Mustafa, who after fleeing his home, wonders who is left to be his friend. The animations are part of UNICEF’s campaign “No Lost Generation”.
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Navigation Guide
To create your own path through the platform, it is crucial to start with the testimony videos of people with refugee and migration experiences. Their voices are essential to understanding “the others”, as engaging with them offers a powerful way to better understand society as a whole.
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Place your cursor over the photos and icons to view descriptions and select a testimony.
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Search the material by categories, types, or keywords (Menu → Repository).
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At the end of each video, review the icon descriptions and explore the related materials.
On VOLARE you will also find suggested “learning pathways” through the testimonies and accompanying materials, which are not restrictive or exclusive. The VOLARE team encourages visitors to create their own pathway of understanding, according to their educational context and interests.
The VOLARE digital platform:
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Designed for educators, university students and secondary school students.
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Employs participatory ethnographic approaches, integrating testimony and multimodality as tools in the educational process.
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Offers a living archive of videos, texts and multimodal resources on migration and refugee experiences.
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Creates a space for listening to and understanding the experiences of migrants, refugees and members of minority groups, with the aim of being used within secondary and higher education courses.
It includes:
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Video-testimonies from people with refugee and migrant backgrounds in Greece, Bulgaria and France. Each research team chose its own way of filming and framing the testimonies, engaging uniquely with each person.
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Video-contributions from educators, legal experts, artists and activists working in the field, who offer their own perspectives on this encounter.
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Each testimony is accompanied by sources of knowledge (articles, books, reports, etc.) and additional multimodal materials (films, artworks, museums, games, databases, etc.).
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Twelve songs in different languages, selected and recorded exclusively for VOLARE.
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Podcasts featuring a wide range of people connected to VOLARE’s themes.