Transforming The Everyday

Design, Environments and objects

neighbourhoods

Learning Objectives

• To know how to effectively design an object that reflects your identity

• To be able to create innovative designs that reflects something about your culture/identity for your neighbourhood

• To understand how different artists create installation art, Site Specific and Public art and how the built environment can affect us.

Key words

• Site-specific art: A piece of art created to exist in a certain place, the location is taken into consideration when planning

• Spiral Jetty; Robert Smithson, 2005

• Public art: A work of art that is intended to be seen in a specific domain, often with implications of community involvement and collaboration

• Arne Quinze. Wooden public art installation

• The Sequence at the Flemish Parliament in Brussels,

• Belgium,

• 2008

• Environmental art: Can improve our relationship with the environment and is sometimes ephemeral(Gallacio) ; made to disappear or transform.

• Installation Art: Site specific work that is supposed to transform your perception of a space, it can be temporary or permanent

• Carsten Holler, 2006, Tate Modern

Lesson 1:

• How can design influence us?

• What colours and shapes do you think stand out in an outdoor/built environment?

• Name some colours and what moods they have

• How would you describe your neighbourhood?

•What would you design to represent yourself: identity and culture? •How could this fit into your neighbourhood?• Name some colours and what moods they have.

Questions to think about:

• What has been successful and what can be improved?

• How have you represented your identity on your design piece for your neighbourhood?

• Which are you going to chose as your final design?

Lesson 2

TaskFrom the selection of everyday

materials start to construct your final design/object for your neighbourhood. This can be in 2D or 3D.

Pupils to reflect on what is going well so far, what can be improved, what changes to

make

Bindu Mehra “Lace” (2005)Hot Glue, 7920cm x 30cm

An experiment with a common ‘craft’ material 'Hot Glue‘, creating translucent flexible panels of interlaced lines, and using 'light' as a 'material' in itself. The shadow the object casts is as important as the object.

Selected Artists

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Investigate

Bindu Mehra is an British artist with Indian heritage. She sees similarities between her sculptural drawings and Indian architecture.

Investigate eitheri) your local

architectureii) Architecture linked to

your heritage.

Create a sculptural drawing.

Symbols

What sorts of symbols can you find in your local environment?

What do they represent?

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Evaluation questions• Have you represented your identity

accurately, If so why? • How have you designed your final

object to fit into your neighbourhood? • How have you used design and colour

to create your final piece? • Reflect on what has been successful

and why and what can be improved. • Place all the work you have made on

one table. Do you think all these objects on your table would fit together in one neighbourhood, if yes why or why not?

• Look at the work of your classmates; which design do you think it the most creative, innovative and fits into their neighbourhood; why