Learning Partners

Learning Partners is Deep Forest Art Land’s development project focused on art, children, nature, and learning.
The project explores how children and young people can engage with contemporary art in the forest as active participants, co-creators, and co-researchers. Together with artists, teachers, and students, we develop new learning programs in which artistic methods, site-specific works, the rhythms of nature, and the students’ own experiences become part of the learning process.

At Learning Partners, we see art as a way to explore the world. Artworks do not serve as definitive answers, but rather as a starting point for questions, experiments, and shared reflections. Through their encounters with art and the forest, children and young people are invited to use their senses, explore, and discover new perspectives on their surroundings.

Learning Partners is based on close collaboration between artists, teachers, students, and Deep Forest Art Land.

The artists contribute their artistic practices, working methods, and unique ways of exploring the world. The teachers bring their knowledge of the students and the academic objectives into the process. The students contribute their curiosity, experiences, ideas, and actions.

The courses are developed collaboratively through dialogue, testing, and reflection, rather than using ready-made teaching packages.

A key principle of Learning Partners is that children do not merely participate in a program—their experiences help shape it.

Through their questions, choices, interpretations, and actions, students actively contribute to the explorations taking place. In this way, they become not just an audience for the art, but co-creators of new experiences and perspectives.

• Art Through the Body, the Senses, and Action
• Artists as Co-Developers of Learning Programs
• Children as Co-Creators
• The Forest as a Learning Space
• Collaboration Between Schools, Art, and Nature
• New Forms of Participation and Collaborative Research