Art in the environment: living and learning by carter benjamin https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v This Padlet offers different proposals on how to live a communication experience that helps us engage with our proximate environment, breaking through the usual perception and trying to turn wandering into an aesthetic and artistic experience. You can directly reuse this Padlet or share its contents, put them into practice independently or use them to work with your students. en-us 2022-05-01 18:35:12 UTC 2025-04-17 17:19:23 UTC hello@padlet.com NATUR-ARTIVISTA pwdk https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2165932753 The relationship with the natural environment is an issue that worries us most because it shapes us, we enjoy it but we are also able to deteriorate it, it overwhelms us with its evocative capacity and makes us feel different emotions, but rarely is our immersion deep because time prevails. We often capture its beauty in a photograph but often look for a postcard, a quick image that responds to codes installed in our imagination without stopping to take a closer look.

This proposal is designed to live the experience of communication with the environment, breaking with the usual perception and trying to turn wandering into an aesthetic and artistic experience. There are many strategies that promote stopping to observe, interacting with the environment, holding back the moments by letting yourself be carried away by the murmurs and shadows; discovering small treasures, attending to what nature wants to tell us and intensifying our perception. We need to look for other ways related to the environment, to be able to understand it in order to transform our action in it, that the aesthetic attitude is restless, rather than an act of creation and recreation, as explorers looking for tiny signs, fragments of time. Biological elements that are only discovered when we pursue what we do not expect to find. Thus, we need TIME, slow-down, and enjoy the moment.]]> 2022-05-01 18:37:19 UTC https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2165932753 Didactic premise: the artistic experience pwdk https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2165932848 It is all about motivating students, releasing artistic frustrations, gaining experience through elementary artistical processes, and observing, and understanding different attitudes without imposing educational proceeders based on direct instruction. The educational experience lived by the students in Primary Education is fundamental as to achieving educational practices with significant learning. As John Dewey titled, Learning by doing is an experiential educational practice that activates learning and the necessary acquisition of subject content. It is, therefore, implied to live the learning experiences and acquire new skills and tools to gain confidence when introducing them in the classroom as future teachers. These experiences help teachers become autonomous and confident to provide new knowledge based on their own experience.]]> 2022-05-01 18:37:30 UTC https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2165932848 Remember pwdk https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2165934201 Essential: interact as an environment; slow perception; delve into the implications of feelings; collect the memory of the experience; get carried away without a fixed course; look the other way; draw without fear; photograph and finally upload it to the Padlet accompanied by the pictures with small reflections, words, audio… that speak of the experience.

Take different strategies as suggestions that you can modify or change according to your preferences and your relationship-communication establish with the environment in seeking to transform everyday experiences.

Observe the world as if it is a puzzle and how we are able to decide its meaning. Change the usual routine, and play with surprise. Knock on the door of your imagination, while trying to see things in many different ways.]]> 2022-05-01 18:40:10 UTC https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2165934201 How do we do that? pwdk https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2165934302 Art has an immense power to generate binds with the territory. Through "ArtEducation", we can promote experiences that involve a change in the look and aesthetic sensibility and, therefore, a commitment to environmental issues.

After researching a brief concept about the environment and Land Art ("Section: Investigation"). You will find different activities that play with a performative interest, applying our sensories and actions with nature through which we seek to build a more conscious experience about each environment and offering a breakthrough of formerly established dynamics. The world can be perceived and represented in many different ways. Therefore, the experience builds on multiple perspectives.

This proposal includes two workshops (an art tour and art experimentation) that will take place in a park or natural environment, either in groups or working independently.

It is also necessary to become familiar with a digital camera and experiment the use of different artistic instruments (a notebook, pencils, charcoals, watercolours or whatever is considered artistically appropriate). Also, we will need a folder or piece of cardboard that can be used for support while working.

Make sure to take care of the aesthetic quality of your work, and attend to the elements involved in an artistic and visual composition so that the experience in the environment is an opportunity derived into artistic expression.

With all the materials and personal reflections from the students collected from each experience, add a new Padlet section in this or a new Padlet. If you already have an account in another application, please send us a link so we can create a shared community with all the different experiences produced.]]> 2022-05-01 18:40:21 UTC https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2165934302 Approaching LandArt pwdk https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2165939417 Do a little research on the issues listed in the following sections and submit your ideas and sketches.]]> 2022-05-01 18:49:49 UTC https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2165939417 Surroundings pwdk https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2165939577 Investigate the concept environment (natural and built) and write down the most important ideas, concepts that are associated, topics of interest... Make a sketch in which you collect your key ideas.]]> 2022-05-01 18:50:00 UTC https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2165939577 Andy Goldsworthy pwdk https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2165940135 This documentary is based on the work by British sculptor Andy Goldsworthy, who works with natural materials such as ice, stone, leaves and wood.]]> 2022-05-01 18:51:04 UTC https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2165940135 Short story pwdk https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2165940279 Choose one of these sentences (or suggest another one) to make a short story from your point of view of the environment.
- If I were the sea, what would I tell you...
- If I were an oak tree, what would I say...
- If I were acid rain floating in the sky, what would I advice you...
- If I were a plastic bottle drifting in the river, what stories could I tell...]]> 2022-05-01 18:51:14 UTC https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2165940279 Here is the Earth pwdk https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2165940362 Other links to artistic experiences in nature:
https://www.rtve.es/play/videos/la-aventura-del-saber/aventura-del-saber-arte-naturaleza/4278347/
]]> 2022-05-01 18:51:25 UTC https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2165940362 Land Art pwdk https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2165940445 Images of works of art with nature (Land Art and Earthworks):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvDCRGSyrfI]]> 2022-05-01 18:51:35 UTC https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2165940445 Richard Long pwdk https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2165940517 On the work by Richard Long:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URhK22ozo54]]> 2022-05-01 18:51:43 UTC https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2165940517 Lucía Loren pwdk https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2165940583
On the work by Lucia Loren:
https://palacioquintanar.com/la-mirada-de-lucia-loren/8034]]> 2022-05-01 18:51:51 UTC https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2165940583 Land Art pwdk https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2165940658 Have you heard of Land Art? Do you know artists who work with nature...? Watch Andy Goldsworthy's video "Rivers and Tides": explain your experience with this artist and publish a comment on which work catches your attention.]]> 2022-05-01 18:52:01 UTC https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2165940658 Roger Dautais pwdk https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2165940849
Work by Roger Dautais:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69whXK3EZCY]]> 2022-05-01 18:52:13 UTC https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2165940849 Draw the world pwdk https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2165943151 At first, frustration and fear reign in the classroom. We began to deal with this insecurity with experiences based on play and collaborative drawing, and little by little, they regained what had been taken away from them, which is to value their gestures and their way of seeing things. (Blanco e Cidrás, 2021)

This activity consists of promoting the practice of art in the immediate surroundings, getting closer to the locality and closely observing elements of nature. This section builds ideas through experience into practice and creates an accessible and reusable didactic process that promotes different practices in art education, outside or inside the classroom. Some activities from the book "Debuxar o Mundo" (Blanco and Cidrás, 2021) have been taken as a reference, although here, we propose to work outside the educational centre. In addition, we also give high importance to new technologies and personal autonomy when students develop and produce different activities.

Editorial Galaxia
https://editorialgalaxia.gal/produto/debuxar-o-mundo-xograr-crear-compartir/
]]> 2022-05-01 18:56:37 UTC https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2165943151 Material selection pwdk https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2165943758 Preparation and selection of materials is required before beginning your journey:)^]]> 2022-05-01 18:57:45 UTC https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2165943758 Arte ca contorna pwdk https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2165952176 A proposta “Arte ca contorna” intégrase no marco dun proxecto da Área de Didáctica de Expresión Plástica que contou cunha bolsa de colaboración concedida polo Ministerio de Educación a Benjamin Carter para o curso 2021-2022. 

Profesora: Cristina Trigo Martínez (cristina.trigo@usc.es)
Departamento de Didácticas Aplicadas, Facultade de Ciencias de Educación. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.

This work is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0]]> 2022-05-01 19:11:58 UTC https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2165952176 Timelapse pwdk https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2166443270 Thoughts: it's a good time to think about the passing of time and how nature builds new paths in the environment or the different forms it creates at every moment giving rise to random designs with pure and unique formations.

Intervention: create unique designs under a camera in Timelapse mode. We will need to recollect organic elements from the environment. Later, on a white background under the camera, we activate the Timelapse mode programmed to take photographs every few seconds. With the recollection, we will create a composition on the white canvas so that the camera will take photos automatically and record the process. When the activity is finished transfer all the images from the camera to a computer and create a short animation. Finally, publish the passage of time so the fast process can be visualised in the Padlet.

Materials: Timelapse camera, tripod, and a cardboard box to recollect organic materials.]]> 2022-05-02 07:51:15 UTC https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2166443270 Paint in Motion pwdk https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2166448145 Thoughts: the flow of the wind, the falling of the leaves, the plants, the grass, the force that flowers need to capture more energy. Try to represent the ideas collected in the section ("Investigation, if I were the sea, what would I tell you, etc.") or think of a word related to the natural environmental movements and represent it interacting with the canvas and paints. The environment is in constant motion. Now it’s time to paint with different natural movements in harmony with nature.

Intervention: having the freedom to paint on a large surface encourages diversity and the grouping of autonomous works, creating social and shared work. (Blanco and Cidrás, p.123).

Materials: 3-5 meters of continuous paper, plastic to protect the floor from stains, carpenter's tape, black, red, blue and yellow paint, paint containers and art instruments of different sizes (sticks can be attached to paintbrushes to give the students distance from the canvas), sponges, rags or other items for painting.]]> 2022-05-02 07:57:53 UTC https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2166448145 Modular sculpture pwdk https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2166454984 Thoughts: take a closer look, observe all the details of your surroundings and then add something new, including elements that may not be visible at first glance, something that offers harmony with the landscape.

Intervention: modular card in which to illustrate one or more elements of the landscape. In this case, to illustrate moving elements on the cardboard and thus create a visual movement in the environment. Finally, as a group form a free construction by combining the cardboard to make different structures and little by little, build a unique sculpture. In this case, there will be different materials to choose from when illustrating on the cards.

Materials: 40 to 60 pieces of A4 stone cardboard, with a thickness of approx. 1.5-2 mm. Art instruments: charcoal, Manley waxes, white chalk, different colour, shapes and sized ink-pens, shapes and also, watercolours with water brushes.]]> 2022-05-02 08:07:40 UTC https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2166454984 Materiales and colour pwdk https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2175340649 Selection of materials for the Modular Sculpture activity.]]> 2022-05-09 08:45:11 UTC https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2175340649 Timelapse pwdk https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2175342716 Selection of materials to perform the Timelapse.]]> 2022-05-09 08:46:54 UTC https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2175342716 Movement pwdk https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2213365056 Some of the materials that facilitate movement when painting on the canvas.]]> 2022-06-07 09:14:33 UTC https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2213365056 Experience pwdk https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2213366917 As educators we are interested primarily not in understanding children but in helping them develop. (Eisner, 1972)

QR link:
https://sites.google.com/view/experimentacin/movement]]> 2022-06-07 09:15:12 UTC https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2213366917 Modular Sculpture pwdk https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2213367546 Change your perspective:D

QR link:
https://sites.google.com/view/experimentacin/modular]]> 2022-06-07 09:15:24 UTC https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2213367546 Tools pwdk https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2213368403 Tools that we have to know how to use and offer experiences with the different techniques.

QR Link:
https://sites.google.com/view/experimentacin/timelapse ]]> 2022-06-07 09:15:36 UTC https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2213368403 Hands pwdk https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2213368868 Our hands touch a feel everything as we work on the paintings, and show progression.]]> 2022-06-07 09:15:50 UTC https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2213368868 New visions pwdk https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2213369109 Finding detail in our work, composition and new visions peeping through different cardboard frames. ]]> 2022-06-07 09:15:58 UTC https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2213369109 This Padlet is a didactic template pwdk https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2251145802 This Padlet has been made for direct sharing by clicking on the "REMAKE" option available in the Padlet APP. All of the contents in the sections on your right are free to copy or be directly used as a didactic project in Artistic Education. These resources have been programmed for teachers or people interested in following practical resources while teaching environmental art.

We would love to see and hear from anyone that uses this content and maybe build an internet community. Feel free to send us comments.

--------->>> ]]> 2022-07-28 11:24:28 UTC https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2251145802 Prepare the backpack. Let's start to explore pwdk https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2251381429 Below are different micro-workshops to develop in the area. Depending on your own experience, you could introduce variations or other activities that you may consider more appropriate. That will allow you to document each experience in a variety of ways: collecting materials, recording sounds, etc. This is just one way to start exploring the world.]]> 2022-07-28 21:34:12 UTC https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2251381429 The alphabet route pwdk https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2251381480 A: Acorn, Aroma
H: Hills, Hydrangeas
I: Isolated, Intriguing
M: Mulberry, Mud
R: Roses, Red, Ruins
...

As you go along the route, collect your catalogue of words by writing down sensations, names, things, sounds, smells or others that the experience may suggest.
]]> 2022-07-28 21:34:28 UTC https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2251381480 Blend in/camouflage yourself pwdk https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2251381542 As if you were part of the environment.
Stay there for a few seconds:
What are you?
What do you need to live?
Which senses are most active now?
Take a picture and write how you feel.]]> 2022-07-28 21:34:44 UTC https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2251381542 Capture a shadow pwdk https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2251381578 You can capture different shadows directly on paper, cut them by hand and adapt the drawing into a single fragment. If you decide to work in a group, it will become interesting to see all the finished art pieces together at the end of the workshop.]]> 2022-07-28 21:34:54 UTC https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2251381578 Frottage pwdk https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2251381618 This technique is used to recollect different textures on paper, which consists of placing a piece of paper on a textured surface and then rubbing over it with an inclined pencil until the texture remains. Use this same paper to collect different textures. Try playing with different rhythms or using other drawing instruments (pencils, crayons, etc.) and produce different results.]]> 2022-07-28 21:35:04 UTC https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2251381618 Botanical Catalogue pwdk https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2251381659 Build a Botanical Catalogue by drawing it based on your observation and write down everything you know about each one.

– Photograph the chosen plant: research to find out its name. You can use the APP PictureThis.

https://www.picturethisai.com/
]]> 2022-07-28 21:35:14 UTC https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2251381659 Leave a treasure pwdk https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2251381696 With sunflower seeds, breadcrumbs... or anything else that can be used as food for birds, create a small ephemeral work in the environment based on the shapes of nature.]]> 2022-07-28 21:35:23 UTC https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2251381696 A hut, a shelter pwdk https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2251381743 Find twigs and other items and make a small construction in a corner. Maybe some animals can use it for their shelter there.]]> 2022-07-28 21:35:34 UTC https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2251381743 Nature paint pwdk https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2251381777 Paint or draw with natural elements: earth, green leaves, petals...]]> 2022-07-28 21:35:43 UTC https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2251381777 Listen pwdk https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2251381803 Choose a place and try to perceive and differentiate the sounds. Close your eyes to concentrate. What kind of sounds and how many can you perceive? Do they evoke any memories, or feelings...? Think of the sounds as if you were listening to a conversation. What are they talking about? What do they tell you? Draw with your eyes closed letting yourself be carried away by what you hear.]]> 2022-07-28 21:35:52 UTC https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2251381803 Subjective map pwdk https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2251381833 At the end of the route make a map in which you collect the memory of your steps pointing out the points that were most significant to you. You can include graphs, words or objects.]]> 2022-07-28 21:36:01 UTC https://padlet.com/pwdk/rp0e6tcbdhdzrp2v/wish/2251381833