GEOGRAPHY EDUCATION

I have previously posted on how successful flashmobs use public places in a way that symbolically merges the meaning of that space with the message of the that place.  This is a fabulous example of that, especially given the economic woes of southern Europe.

As Jordan Weismmann said about this flashmob in the Atlantic, “I’m not sure if this video is more heartbreaking or heartwarming, but it pretty well captures what’s going on in Europe’s economy right now. While the day-to-day drama of the continent’s debt crisis has subsided, painful austerity measures have helped leave huge swaths of the population jobless. In Spain, unemployment is at 25 percent.”