I am a City Planner!
Day 1
This week we continued our journey with the following prompt:
Welcome back! You’ve just been promoted and now you’re a city planner. You’re trying to build a town in which everyone’s homes fit nicely and where everyone is excited to live where they do. How are you going to make living in this town enjoyable? We are going to, as a class, decide what would make a great city. Then we are going to design our own city!
Welcome back! You’ve just been promoted and now you’re a city planner. You’re trying to build a town in which everyone’s homes fit nicely and where everyone is excited to live where they do. How are you going to make living in this town enjoyable? We are going to, as a class, decide what would make a great city. Then we are going to design our own city!
Essential UnderstandingsArt media, techniques and processes work together to create art.
Artwork elicits personal response. Key ConceptsArtistic Intent
Space Observation Movement Artistic Process Art FocusInvestigating and exploring how artists create and why.
Exploring how artists describe their ideas in different ways. |
Learning TargetsStudents will identify and describe three types of city planning (community, environmental and transportation).
Students will design and create a blueprint for the city that their home is in. SkillsCollaboration
Expressing their ideas Executing their designs Refinement Planning Literary FocusHow to "read" visual information such as other student's artwork, etc.
How to articulate their thought process and decision making. Vocabulary: demo, urban/city planning, community planning, environmental planning, transportation planning , assemblage, diorama, artist presentation, critique |
Documentation and Reflection
Today's class was great. The students really shined individually in creating their own unique towns. Based on the results seen at the bottom of this page, it's pretty clear that each of these students like to show their personality in their work.
We started off the class talking about the differences between the three kinds of city planners that we included. They did a great job at showing off what they learned by taping drawings of things included in certain areas up in their respective categories. You can see this in the first photo included in the bottom slideshow.
One of the major ideas was physical perspective. We talked about how blueprints are from an aerial view, or "bird's eye view." It didn't take them long to catch on how to draw their homes from that perspective. Almost instantly after releasing them for work time, about 5 students asked to see their house so they can draw their homes from the bird's eye view in class so that their blueprints can be perfect.
We started off the class talking about the differences between the three kinds of city planners that we included. They did a great job at showing off what they learned by taping drawings of things included in certain areas up in their respective categories. You can see this in the first photo included in the bottom slideshow.
One of the major ideas was physical perspective. We talked about how blueprints are from an aerial view, or "bird's eye view." It didn't take them long to catch on how to draw their homes from that perspective. Almost instantly after releasing them for work time, about 5 students asked to see their house so they can draw their homes from the bird's eye view in class so that their blueprints can be perfect.
The student who made both of these sketches above did a great job of completing the task. The video was taken in this class, and to show how she accomplished the bird's eye view, I included the drawing from a few classes prior of her home. The home is a treehouse, so this means in her birds eye view drawing, it should show just the top of the tree. You can see she accomplished this in her video. Her next step was to create more homes around her tree home.
We asked them to include their interests by asking them questions like "what do you like to do in your free time?", "where is your favorite restaurant?", and "who lives by you?". While everyone included many different ideas, this next student explains very explicitly in his video what he wants from his city.
We asked them to include their interests by asking them questions like "what do you like to do in your free time?", "where is your favorite restaurant?", and "who lives by you?". While everyone included many different ideas, this next student explains very explicitly in his video what he wants from his city.
This student clearly shows his personal interests in his artwork by showing that his home is in the woods with no one else living nearby. He has a stream that divides him from other places and there's a campsite he can go to since he likes to camp. He told me he could catch his own food since he lives in the forest as well as near a stream. Then there are other homes across the way so he can still visit his family and friends.
This was done very well not only because he shows his personal interests in the picture, but it also is a good example of the assignment which was to create a blueprint. This includes labelling and drawing from an aerial view. All of these things were accomplished by this student.
This was done very well not only because he shows his personal interests in the picture, but it also is a good example of the assignment which was to create a blueprint. This includes labelling and drawing from an aerial view. All of these things were accomplished by this student.