Stay and discover how educational communities around the world are creating butterflies that come together in a magical exhibition celebrating cultural diversity.
What this is
No competition. No curriculum. Just classrooms, scissors, paint, and the belief that a small object can carry a long story across a border.
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One project. A world of stories.
Butterflies arrive from classrooms across continents, each one carrying a little piece of where it came from. Together, they turn distance into connection.
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Small wings. A journey across the world.
Painted, folded, and signed by hand, no two butterflies are ever the same. Each one travels far from the hands that created it to become part of something bigger.
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A piece of who you are, told in colour.
Symbols, patterns, memories, traditions. Students transform their wings into expressions of identity, creating a living mosaic of cultures and personal stories.
The project began in Budapest. It continues wherever a community decides to take part.
See the living mapChapter 02
It begins with one pair of hands.
Then a classroom
A name, a language, a colour that is only theirs.
Then the world
Many individual stories become one shared world.
The living map
We are a growing community of educators and learners across every continent — different in culture, language, shape, and size, yet connected by the same desire to create, share, and learn from one another.
Select a butterfly to read the classroom behind it.
The first butterflies
Scroll, and one butterfly makes the crossing. The line behind it is only the part of the journey that has already happened.
Two years ago, this dream began with two educators, Juan and Linda, and one shared belief: that education could bring people closer, no matter the distance. What started as their determination to connect classrooms has since grown wings of its own.
Zaragoza
España
Kayseri
Türkiye
Zaragoza
España
Kayseri
Türkiye
The first butterfly
One drawing carried the whole idea across: a face from Zaragoza on one wing, Kayseri on the other. Two cultures on the same body — everything after it is an answer to this one.
How it was made
Scroll sideways — small notes from the making
The exhibition
They spread beyond the classrooms — into every room of daily life.
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01By the end of the week the building itself had become the artwork.
Selected wings
43 Schools
Here, you’ll discover the butterflies created by each educational community, along with the stories, people, and places behind them. With every new contribution, another point appears on the map — slowly weaving a living network of classrooms, cultures, and communities across every continent.
Chapters, not entries in a directory.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Hungary
Budapest · Joined 2023 · Exhibited
Where the Danube divides two historic shores and bridges bring them together again beneath the evening lights.
Selected wings
Sample · more wings in flight
Twelve of 128 wings from Budapest — the first selection.
This wall keeps growing: the best butterflies of every school land here as they arrive.
Finland
Mikkeli · Approximate location
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Mikkeli.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Estonia
Kihnu
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Kihnu.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Sweden
Jokkmokk · Approximate location
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Jokkmokk.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
United States
Washington, DC · Approximate location
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Washington, DC.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Guatemala
Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Italy
Centallo
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Centallo.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Italy
Dronero
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Dronero.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Argentina
Acassuso
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Acassuso.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Mexico
Guadalajara
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Guadalajara.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Cambodia
Kampot · Approximate location
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Kampot.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Cambodia
Krong Bokor · Approximate location
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Krong Bokor.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Netherlands
Dordrecht · Approximate location
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Dordrecht.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Costa Rica
Comunidad, Guanacaste
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Comunidad, Guanacaste.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
New Zealand
Aoraki / Mount Cook
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Aoraki / Mount Cook.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Romania
Șimleu Silvaniei
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Șimleu Silvaniei.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Mauritius
Moka
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Moka.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Antarctica
Base Esperanza
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Base Esperanza.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Cabo Verde
Praia · Approximate location
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Praia.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Senegal
Dakar · Approximate location
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Dakar.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Ireland
Carrigtwohill
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Carrigtwohill.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Romania
Timișoara
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Timișoara.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Spain
Ceuta · Approximate location
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Ceuta.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Armenia
Debet, Lori
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Debet, Lori.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Colombia
Armenia, Quindío
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Armenia, Quindío.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Switzerland
Buchs
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Buchs.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
China
Wuhan
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Wuhan.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Spain
Zaragoza · Approximate location
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Zaragoza.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Turkmenistan
Ashgabat · Approximate location
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Ashgabat.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Türkiye
Kayseri
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Kayseri.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Chile
Lenca, Los Lagos
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Lenca, Los Lagos.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Guatemala
Guatemala City
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Guatemala City.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Venezuela
Caracas · Approximate location
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Caracas.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Guyana
South Rupununi · Approximate location
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for South Rupununi.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Brazil
Manaus, Amazonas · Approximate location
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Manaus, Amazonas.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Bolivia
San Antonio de Lomerío · Approximate location
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for San Antonio de Lomerío.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Ecuador
Ecuadorian Amazon · Approximate location
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Ecuadorian Amazon.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Spain
Zaragoza
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Zaragoza.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Bulgaria
Veliko Tarnovo
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Veliko Tarnovo.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Solomon Islands
North Malaita · Approximate location
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for North Malaita.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Fiji
Kadavu · Approximate location
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Kadavu.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Fiji
Lomaloma, Vanuabalavu · Approximate location
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Lomaloma, Vanuabalavu.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Kosovo
Mitrovica
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Mitrovica.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
How educational communities participate
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A folder arrives: paper, instructions, and the story so far.
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Every student makes one. Nothing is graded, nothing compared.
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The butterflies travel and join the collective artwork.
Thousands of students have not created their butterfly yet. Perhaps yours will be next.
Every butterfly added to this artwork represents a student whose story becomes part of something larger.
There is no competition. There are no winners.
Only a growing collection of cultures connected through creativity.
Your classroom could become one of them.
Receive the project
Stage 01
Create together
Stage 02
Share the butterflies
Stage 03
Become part of the exhibition
Stage 04
Inspire another educational community
Stage 05
“As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.”
“Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it.”
“Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world.”
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Contact
Tell us about your school and your students. We will send the information pack and answer every message personally.
This place is waiting for a story.
