Why do we Protest? DYP December

Protests through time:

What stands out? What parts are familiar or the same in each image?

Part 1 - Brainstorm

1. Name something that makes you angry/frustrated/mad

2. Name something you would change if you could

3. Name something that you think is unfair about the world

Finally: 

What would make you feel strongly enough to join a group of people protesting?

Part 2 - Community Resourcing

Sketch all the symbols you can think of around:

Peace

Community

Justice

Part 3 - Designing

Either on your own or with a partner, start to plan out what a sign might look like for something you are protesting. Can your sign be clever AND beautiful AND convey a strong message that is impossible to ignore? 

Will your sign be designed to:

1. Uplift your community/compatriots?

2. Make your point clear to the people who are the reason you are protesting?

3. Make a statement that is undeniable to anyone in history?

Inspiration:

A Tree Grows in the Bronx - Family trees with PS 4 (part 2)

 

What do you notice? 

1. How does it feel to know there are as many different kinds of trees as there are butterflies, buildings, people?

2. How do you describe the textures on these trees? By shapes? By how they feel? 

3. How might we make something that shows a texture? 

4. What kind of texture for our family tree do you think you might want to explore?

Trees I made out of cardboard for a movie - translating textures:

Main Task for the Day - Making our Family Tree

1. Cut out pre-outlined tree shape as a group (is more intense then cutting butterfly out, will require slow pace and group support)

2. Begin layering slivers of brown shades of paper - apply glue to tree cut out first, then cover glue with pieces

3. Goal is to have covered every bit of the original white cut out, so our tree looks alive - explore and make choices about color and pattern and movement

Example:

A Tree Grows in the Bronx - Family trees with PS 4 (part 1)

 

The power of simple shapes - How can we build a city out of just rectangles?

1. What is layering? How does it tell us what is happening - creating sense of distance?

2. How important is having different colors and sizes of rectangles/shapes?

3. What kinds of details have you seen on buildings around your home? Do you remember any details from your building? How is your building recognizable, compared to others around it?

Tasks for the Day:

1. Start by laying out different large rectangles - skinny and wide, short and tall, darker grey or lighter - once you know how you want them to sit on your page GLUE THEM DOWN

2. Once your building shapes are all glued into place, start to try out the smaller colorful squares and rectangles, imagining different kinds of building details. Once you know what you want a building to look like - GLUE THE DETAILS DOWN

3. By the end of class, there should be no white of the original paper showing, because your city is so full and rich and detailed.

Example Process: