Schools: Me & The City 6 - 22 Mar 2018
In Me & The City your class will discover and explore how a city is planned, created and developed. Working with artist Jole Bortoli, they will learn how architects work and look at artists who have created landmark sculptures and colourful big-scale street art.
On arrival your class will visit our gallery, which will be full of displays that will explore the structure of cities, their architecture and diverse habitats. You will see plans that show the design process of urban spaces as well as architectural drawings and sketchbooks, photographs and 3D models. Inspired by what they have seen, the class will then take part in a practical mixed media workshop led by artist Jole Bortoli.
During the workshop, the class will build a city, drawing and then constructing buildings and spaces using a wide selection of materials. They will fill their city with the people, animals and plants that may live there. Older classes will also create the essential street furniture and amenities that are found in any urban environment – maybe inventing new ones perfect for a city of the future.
Curricular Links...
Me & The City is an ideal opportunity to explore the Looking and Responding unit of the Visual Arts curriculum and the workshop is strongly linked with the Construction, Fabric and Fibre, Drawing and Paint and Colour strands.
The workshop also has strong linkage with other curricula including Geography (in particular the Human Environments strand), Science, Mathematics and SPHE.