Workshop Lingo Bingo, St Étienne, France September 2025
The Crefad Team meets x-tractor in Berlin
In May 2025, the Crefad Loire team travelled to Berlin for one week to take part in the deployment of the Lingo Bingo project in situ and receive training in specific public space facilitation techniques. The team experienced all stages of the Lingo Bingo process: meeting local residents, co-creating a video in Arabic (including brainstorming, storyboarding, filming, and editing), and finally playing the video in the Sonnenallee neighborhood. This immersive approach allowed the Crefad Loire team to both observe and actively participate in the entire process, strengthening their practical skills and understanding of participatory methods.
The Crefad Loire team meets x-tractor’s local partners and establish new networks, exchange practices, and explore potential future collaborations.
Lingo Bingo Team meets the Crefad in St-Étienne, France
In February 2025, the x-tractor team came in Saint-Étienne for a week (16–22 February) to meet for the first time the Crefad Loire team and deepen the implementation of Lingo Bingo in the local context.
They engaged in a range of activities:
– Neighborhood exploration in Tarentaize-Beaubrun, identifying potential public spaces and meeting local shopkeepers.
– Hands-on workshops including video creation at the Maison Digitale, typography-based title design inspired by Saint-Étienne’s urban environment, and embroidery sessions to develop visual elements for future Lingo Bingo videos.
– Public demonstrations, such as presenting Lingo Bingo to the Crefad Loire team and testing the OMNI cart in the streets.
– Networking and knowledge exchange, including meetings with local partners like CREAL and visits to community hubs such as la Maison Digitale, La Bricoleuse, La Comète, and Terrain des Saveurs.
– Coordination sessions, where the teams finalized the partnership agreement and scheduled upcoming activities.
Partnership x-tractor- Crefad
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 will meet in Berlin and Saint-Étienne to establish the conditions for transmitting the Lingo Bingo tool. The project will include meetings with local partners, recording and editing workshops, as well as the deployment of the program in public spaces. Finally, a dissemination phase will ensure the initiative is shared with other popular education organizations.
SozioKultur Fonds —Harzer Kiez-Neukölln
Lingo Bingo created 10 films for the Harzer Kiez thanks to the SozioKultur Fond. Get to know what we did in the Kiez and play our games.
Berlin Feld Theater
LINGO BINGO zu GAST in & um das FELD Theater BERLIN für das Kultur Monat Berlin – okt.2022
Gefördert durch KULTUR.GEMEINSCHAFTEN gemeinsames Förderprogramm für digitale Content-Produktion in Kultureinrichtungen der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien und der Kulturstiftung der Länder.
Berlin Schöneweide
2024, Lingo Bingo produced a new video with the residents of Schöneweide.
This project was funded by the Zentrum für Demokratie.
Berlin Lichtenberg
Gudrunstr. is where the Athos restaurant is in Lichtenberg. Learn a bit of Greek with Dimitris and get ready to order your food in Greek next time you visit his restaurant.
2023 – Geneva, Switzerland
Partnered with Urbanology in a new neighborhood for United Nations employees.
Designed games and videos to help residents connect and celebrate cultural and linguistic diversity.
2021 – Harzer Kiez collaboration
Lingo Bingo worked with Harzer Kiez neighborhood to co-create videos with residents.
Supported by Harzer Kiez Quartiersmanagement.
Late 2020 – Concept evolution
Began developing the open classroom idea—connecting people through language learning.
Expanded beyond English by inviting community members to teach their own languages via short videos.
Brought the concept to Germany, starting in Lichtenberg (Oct 2020) with Kiezfonds support, creating the first Lingo Bingo Wagon prototype.
2019–2020 – Chilean uprising & pandemic beginnings
Lingo Bingo started during the Chilean social uprising.
When the pandemic closed schools, we worked with teachers and artists to create outdoor English-learning games in public spaces.
Developed 60 English-learning games for a government-created children’s TV channel, reaching students without internet access.