Yhteisötaideteos Muksut Mäppää, 2024

Muksut Mäppää is a community art project promoting social inclusion for primary school children at Reflektor festivals. At its core is enabling children to make art and experience their own art. Reflektor wants to show socially disadvantaged children that they have the right to influence the urban space and make their voices heard in society.

The Muksut Mäppää community project, which was held in 2022 in Malmi and in Kerava in 2024, will invite children from the neighbourhood of Reflektor to become artists at the festival and use projection mapping to project their work into an urban space the size of a building. The project will engage children in a conversation about their participation and right to a shared urban space, and give them a way to make it look like themselves. Working in schools equates the accessibility of the work, especially for socially vulnerable children, and underlines the right of everyone to have a voice in public space.

The aim of the project is to explore how children are affected by making and seeing the work. A report on the project will be submitted in early 2025.

The project will be carried out in cooperation with the Central Union for Child Welfare. The specific expertise of the Central Union for Child Welfare will provide the project with a broad experience base in working with children of different ages and backgrounds and in ethical participation.