An Earthen Village, in Primary School
BigBangSchool // October + November 2020
Location: 30 km from Thessaloniki
Frontal Teaching - Project Method
Problem Based Learning - Interdisciplinarity
‘We want people with rich knowledge, aesthetics and spirit, who will be able to collaborate, communicate their ideas, judge correctly, create, be flexible and adaptable but also understand their feelings and the feelings of others.’
Big Bang School
1st Week: Get To Know, Set Goals and Basic Information
As part from educational subject: Sustainable Cities, of 4th Grade of Primary School ( 9-10 years old), the teacher of Art: Spiros Nikolaidis, invited me to create something innovative & attractive for the upcoming 2 months.
Exercise the process of designing. Focus on the perspective of a designer's notebook and mindset.
https://youtu.be/ctZhsobmGco
* Do we want to make a city or a village? *
Our village diagram
2nd Week: Let’s Begin! The Laboratory’s Class
Equipments
Digging The Soil ~
How do we ‘read’ the soil? How can we build with it?
Aggelos Patsias, the school’s executive & teacher, participated in the soil mixture (cob)
How do we feel the soil’s consistency ?
3rd Week:
Cob Model Sculpting
*Recycled Carton, Tables, and Buckets
Scale ~ 1/20 Process In collaboration with Mrs Amaryllis Tsiouprou
4th Week: Keep Imagining, Keep Evolving
5th Week: Structure & Roof +
+ Plastering
6th Week: Waterproof finishing on earthen plaster + Wooden Straw Roof
Complete of the creations
Explaining scale and learning to adapt our calculations in maps.
Children suggestions
6 Months Later
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Live Action Role Play (Larp) as an the educational process ~
Glyptopia
Experiential Workshop
Conducted with a teacher of Philosophy in Pedagogy : Ilianna Kriezi (on the right) On the left, is the teacher of Big bang school German teacher:
Making Red Earth Plaster ~ From school’s ground
❖ Water Waste Treatment ❖ Innovative Design with Reuses and Creativeness
Mrs Niki and Dionisia , teachers from class B1 and B2 & Mr Stratos of teacher of Gymnastics
Thank you
An earthen village, in Primary School Duration of Project: 8 weeks
Thank you for your attention!
Art Professor: Spiros Nikolaidis Project Curator: Nikiforos Sorofikin Papoutsopoulos In Collaboration with: Amaryllis Tsiouprou