Studio critique of found object / material exercise
Discussing the meaning of 'Sense of Place' at the Prospect Park Boathouse
Investigation of making natural dyes out of plant and food material
Remains of a performance commenting on plastic and recycling in Prospect Park
Investigating and envisioning communities on a small scale.
Installation connecting lichen, cities, and co-operation
Rethinking our relationship to invasive species in a world of global climate change
On site installation drawing attention to the Emerald Ash Borer and the Ash tree
What is place? How do we orient ourselves within it?
A place-making performance and public invitation to investigate the traces we leave as humans moving through the landscape.
A rubbing to document the life of a 150-year-old elm tree.

Summer Arts Institute Course: Human Tracks in the Urban Landscape

#BCSummer: Human Tracks in the Urban Landscape

Develop Your Own Eco-art Curriculum

Flyer (pdf)

Description

This interdisciplinary course uses Brooklyn’s Prospect Park as a setting for place-based learning, integrating visual art, technology and environmental science while focusing on inquiry-based pedagogy that teachers can draw upon in their own classrooms.

Participants will:

Examine the complementary nature of artistic and scientific inquiry, teaching, and learning.
Construct site-specific artistic installations that address environmental and resource sustainability
Document and record insights through “actual” and “virtual” means (drawing, field notes, model making, photography, videography, mapping, etc).
Develop differentiated instructional materials that promote critical and creative “habits of mind”

Dates and Times

Monday–Thursday, July 22–August 1, 2019, 10 a.m.–3 p.m.

Credits

Three graduate credits in either:

Art Education—ECAC 7546,
Science and Environmental Education—CBSE 7317,
Science Education—SEED 7317, or
General Science—GSCI 7050

Registration

Brooklyn College students should register for this class through their departments.
Nondegree students wishing to take the course for professional development or master's credit should register with Nancy Tinevra.