Learning Languages in the Streets
Supported by x-tractor
x-tractor supports the development of Lingo Bingo and contributes to its activities, collaborations and dissemination
What is Lingo Bingo?
Lingo Bingo is a participatory urban project that aims to bring communities together through language games. Video, stop motion, live projection , street art, performance, and improvization combined create an educational, socially engaged, and in situ repertoire of contemporary language games. LingoBingo sees language diversity in multicultural cities as a resource to be cultivated and not a barrier or problem to be solved. Valued languages tend to be European; less valued languages are spoken by immigrant communities. Celebrating the diversity of languages that inhabit our cities and opening spaces for collective and participatory learning can offer a more equal and out of the box dialogue between city dwellers.
x-tractor’s role
In 2024, x-tractor e.V (Lingo Bingo team) and Crefad Loire formed a partnership to facilitate the transmission of Lingo Bingo. Supported by funding from the European Commission’s Erasmus+ program, this project aims to enable the Crefad team, as well as a wide network of organizations and actors in popular education in France, to adopt and disseminate this tool.
Over a two-year period, the two organizations met in Berlin and Saint-Étienne to establish the conditions for transmitting the Lingo Bingo tool. The project included meetings with local partners, recording and editing workshops, as well as the deployment of the program in public spaces. Finally, a dissemination phase ensured the initiative was shared with other popular education organizations.
