Young Art Futures is a cross-curricular project that plans to develop experiential and student orientated approaches to learning in ICT and Art.
The project aims to raise aspirations, target Gifted and Talented pupils and provide skills that are directly transferable to the National Curriculum in Art, ICT, Citizenship and PSHE. The work is based on a work of art, Lorenzetti’s “The Art of Good and Bad Government.” This fresco in Senia, Italy was a man’s or a communities vision of utopia, 200 years before Thomas Moore coined the word ‘Utopia’. As a starting point this Art historic exemplar provides the project with a model to examine and investigate our own 21st Century urban and rural environment.
Using a range of traditional and contemporary media, e.g Sketchbooks and mobile phone technology, pupils involved in the project will deconstruct their environment and create ‘personal journals’ of their surroundings. They will then re-construct on topics/themes from Lorenzetti’s original fresco, their perception of our time and place. In addition to using art techniques and methods of recording visual data, the project will facilitate the creative use of locative media hardware and software that will allow pupils to learn and extend the creative use of this digital media technology. |
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