Yuri Krasny (Russian: Красный Юрий Евсеевич, born 1946 in
Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) is one of the
USSR
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...
's pioneering
media education theorists.
Biography
In his childhood, Yuri suffered from a heavy form of rheumatism in his childhood.
In 1974, graduated from the
Dnipropetrovsk Transport Engineering Institute; invested much time into self-education in humanities while living an artistic life of the dissident kind.
Married to
Lina Kurdyukova. Upon discovery of amator filmmaking, they worked for more than 15 years in the Dnipropetrovsk animation studio ''Vesnyanka'' ("Веснянка", later upgraded to cinemacenter status), from 1980 till 1984.
In 1984 together with Lina Kurdyukova organized ”ECOANIMA” children studio for ecology and animation (Dnipropetrovsk).
In 1986 together with Lina Kurdyukova and Mariya Krasny founded ”SIMHAH” Center for children and youth creative development at Dnipropetrovsk Jewish Community Center.
Since 1999 he has been developing and conducting classes for children with cerebral palsy at Dnipropetrovsk resource center. Krasny is an
ASIFA
The International Animated Film Association (French: ''Association Internationale du Film d'Animation'', ASIFA) is an international non-profit organization founded in 1960 in Annecy, France, by the best known animation artists of the time such as ...
member and participates in various
UNICEF
UNICEF (), originally called the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund in full, now officially United Nations Children's Fund, is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to ...
projects. In 1999 he developed the application of the animation pedagogy for the children with
special needs
In clinical diagnostic and functional development, special needs (or additional needs) refers to individuals who require assistance for disabilities that may be medical, mental, or psychological. Guidelines for clinical diagnosis are given in b ...
.
Since 2006, Yuri and Lina Krasny have been living in Israel.
Аnimation pedagogy
Conceptualization of education by means of animation began in 1983, during the
Annecy Festival
Annecy ( , ; frp, Èneci or ) is the prefecture and largest city of the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of Southeastern France. It lies on the northern tip of Lake Annecy, south of Geneva, Switzerland. Nickname ...
, at an ASIFA seminar titled ''Animated Film at School - Tomorrow's Pedagogy?''. It opened a series of international workshops for children, taking place around the world on a regular basi
The stated goal was 1) popularization of animation making among the children and 2) exposure of the animation made by children to a broad audience (ibid).
While addressing this event in his book ''animation pedagogy'' (which he co-authored with
:ru:Курдюкова, Лина Ивановна, Lina Krasny, wife), Krasny emphasized that animation has both value as a medium for teaching special subjects at school and, not less important, as a means of universal aesthetic development for children and youth of any age group.
It was specified that animation is uniquely close to the child's gaming psychology and, depending on personal interest of the child, it allows to make contact with numerous kinds of human activities, thus facilitating future professional identification. Besides, teaching animation gives necessary grounds of artistic (graphics, painting, sculpting, drama, literature, crafts) and media literacy; essentials of camera work and editing give the pupils communication with the best of the cinema culture and, conversely, develop a critical attitude towards commercial media production.
On the theoretical level, the cycle of 6 components (word, line, color, volume, movement, sound) was formulated, corresponding to the main stages of filmmaking. The children are provided grounds for individual and group work, socialization at animation festivals, in correspondence with three age groups they belong to.
While being highly successful in the 80s (festivals, seminars for the educationalists from the Soviet republics, cooperation with the children workshops in Russia, Estonia, Georgia etc.), animation pedagogy school in Dnipropetrovsk developed as an amator alternative to the official Soviet school system. After the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...
collapse (1991), it continued developing with support of several charitable funds.
Development of home video and simplification of digital editing allowed for application of animation pedagogy methods directly at home. Recently Y. and L. Krasny have been preoccupied with online tutorials for young families.
Animation for the ''special needs'' children
About approaches to work with ”special” children and the experience of such work Y. Krasn itold in his book ”Ar tis Always a Therapy” that was recently published as a second extended edition5.
Below is the excerpt from the synopsis:
”The book describes the experimental teaching of art to children having cerebral palsy and other special needs in the area of psycho physical development that took place during many years. The author attempts to exceed the boundaries of specifically therapeutic objectives as well as to substantiate the potential social value of children having cerebral palsy that is connected with the peculiarities of their creativity. A substantial part of the book is dedicated to a detailed presentation of the techniques and forms of creative classes with children having cerebral palsy and the usage of different materials and methods.
The unique feature of the method is addressing animation creativity as a means of rehabilitation and social adaptation of children having cerebral palsy. Working at an animated film creates unique conditions for organizing cooperation between children with cerebral palsy and healthy children”...
Additional materials in the book “One Hundred Animals in one Palm”
[”One Hundred Animals in One Palm” (Jerusalem, 2008) ] on the website https://web.archive.org/web/20150423002509/http://www.prostorebenok.com:80/
Films, made (andbeingmade) in the course of this work are placed on the author's YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBumo3sbr1subbFowVrIB9Q
Notes
8.CAN ART AID IN RESOLVING CONFLICTS? 200-201. Amsterdam, 2018.
External links
in English:
- workshop in Croatia,
Škola Animiranog Filma
Škola Animiranog Filma (ŠAF) is a school of animation located in Čakovec, Croatia.
The program's intent is not career development, but to promote cognition, imagination, perseverance, cooperation and pride in one's work for children between the ...
, 2004
in Russian
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1946 births
Living people
Russian educators
Soviet educators