An Earthen Village in Primary School - Ένα Χωμάτινο Χωριό στο Δημοτικό Σχολείο

An Earthen Village, in Primary School

BigBangSchool // October + November 2020

Location: 30 km from Thessaloniki

Frontal Teaching - Project Method

Problem Based Learning - Interdisciplinarity

‘We want people with rich knowledge, aesthetics and spirit, who will be able to collaborate, communicate their ideas, judge correctly, create, be flexible and adaptable but also understand their feelings and the feelings of others.’

Big Bang School

1st Week: Get To Know, Set Goals and Basic Information

As part from educational subject: Sustainable Cities, of 4th Grade of Primary School ( 9-10 years old), the teacher of Art: Spiros Nikolaidis, invited me to create something innovative & attractive for the upcoming 2 months.

Exercise the process of designing. Focus on the perspective of a designer's notebook and mindset.

https://youtu.be/ctZhsobmGco

* Do we want to make a city or a village? *

Our village diagram

2nd Week: Let’s Begin!

The Laboratory’s Class

Equipments

Digging The Soil ~

How do we ‘read’ the soil?

How can we build with it?

Aggelos Patsias, the school’s executive & teacher, participated in the soil mixture (cob)

How do we feel the soil’s consistency ?

3rd Week:

Cob Model Sculpting

*Recycled Carton, Tables, and Buckets

Scale ~ 1/20 Process In collaboration with Mrs Amaryllis Tsiouprou

4th Week: Keep Imagining, Keep Evolving

5th Week: Structure & Roof +

+ Plastering

6th Week: Waterproof finishing on earthen plaster + Wooden Straw Roof

Complete of the creations

Explaining scale and learning to adapt our calculations in maps.

Children suggestions

6 Months Later

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Live Action Role Play (Larp) as an the educational process ~

Glyptopia

Experiential Workshop

Conducted with a teacher of Philosophy in Pedagogy : Ilianna Kriezi (on the right) On the left, is the teacher of Big bang school German teacher:

Making Red Earth Plaster ~ From school’s ground

❖ Water Waste Treatment ❖ Innovative Design with Reuses and Creativeness

Mrs Niki and Dionisia , teachers from class B1 and B2 & Mr Stratos of teacher of Gymnastics

Thank you

An earthen village, in Primary School Duration of Project: 8 weeks

Thank you for your attention!

Art Professor: Spiros Nikolaidis Project Curator: Nikiforos Sorofikin Papoutsopoulos In Collaboration with: Amaryllis Tsiouprou