Environtment preservation: clean landscapes

Organic sculptures, practical uses of sustainability. Improving the forest, teamwork, sculpting / Land Art, visual arts, performance art.

Duration: a whole morning

Objectives:

• Introduction to a creative, temporary and performative sculpting technique.
• Introduction to Land Art.
• Raising social awareness about ethical consumerism and for environment preservation.
• Promoting teamwork among students.
• Practical application on abstract tridimensional drawing and sculpture.
• Introduction to contemporary art and performance art through the analysis and experimentation of a creative process.

On the activities:

• Observation and acknowledgement of the environment. The many uses of found materials.
• Explaining the following teamwork, plus carrying it out in the study.
• Picking up, triaging and uses of the materials: logs and sculptural installations / tree scraps to create colour pigments (lignines).
• Forest clean-up.

Teamwork: constructing an installation, building with sticks and (possible) performance, depending on the results of the teamwork, plus a final team analysis.