Curriculum, learning and teaching
ReVERBeration: a collaborative, international, sound sculpture project Greg Morgan on a creative initiative that has brought 12 schools together
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Some participating centres developed cross-curricular projects involving several subject areas and year groups. In other cases, just a single student within a school participated. Whilst the project is centred on sound sculptures as vehicles for communication, conventional visual arts experience and expertise were not required. To enable the various centres within our network to share their ideas and ongoing work, Anton Hazewinkel at The High School Affiliated to Nanjing Normal University in China set up this blog-based hub: https:// reverberation.ib-art.space/ In May 2019 we transported ReVERBeration to St Paul’s church in Rome. The installation included a rhizomatic web of dozens of biomorphic sculptures, created by our Year 9 (8th Grade) students. Concealed within its tendrils were small speakers which played loops of reverberating audio that they had created in their Music lessons. This element of the main project was awarded the 2019 COBIS International Art Prize for group entries. Autumn |
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My involvement with the International Baccalaureate as a Senior Examiner, and with Visual Arts curriculum design, has brought me into contact with an array of teachers, examiners and academics from around the world. As a consequence, I began to consider ways in which staff and students from my school, St George’s British International School (SGBIS) in Rome, might collaborate creatively with some of these remarkable people. Following initial discussions with my Head of School and with the Heads of Art and English at Wellington College UK, I began to formulate an idea for a new international initiative entitled ReVERBeration. ReVERBeration is a collaborative, sound sculpture based, creative project. Twelve international schools have participated in the initiative. They are spread across China, Canada, Germany, The Netherlands, Italy, Malta, Greece, Norway, Switzerland and the UK. Key fields and elements explored by participating schools have included Visual Art, Dance, Music, Performance, Science, Sport, Creative Writing, Virtual Reality and Poetry.
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