This blog isn't about that but you do know now that I'm teaching Applied Arts as a general subject in profesional high school.
A colleague came in September with the idea to push further the "solidarity boxes" for Secours Populaire Français (social help association) by MAKING them with our students.
There are 2 groups: first the Carpenters who made and decorated a wood box and then the Architect Assistants to whom I gave a slightly more ambitious instruction to design it entirely!
Additional constraint (as we don't have extensive financial possibilities): the material will be recovered cardboard.
The process I set up was to work on the structures, first empirically, then in a guided way, and finally to think about a box that is not just a rectangle and that assembles without external input (glue, adhesive, staple...).
Then arrives the design either by experimenting directly on the cardboard either by searching on paper before testing in volume.
And finally the making!
The programmation teacher helped me with this step (he has the group twice 3 hours a week when I only see them 55 minutes weekly, kind of more usable to carry out such production).
You know how I'm lucky? He went ill between his 2 lessons so I took his place by myslef. Problem is we should have had 4 hours to finish and here we are with only my 2 hours available, that's such a precious time we missed to perfect some pieces.
Globally the whole work done is more than satisfaying and some boxes are admirable (because of their rendering, of their quality, of their design process by the students with minimal intervention by us teachers).
After that the boxes were filled (a nice word, something good to eat, something that smells good...) and given to the local comitee of Secours Populaire:
You can imagine we were proud of them!
.
No comments:
Post a Comment