Location: The Quad • Time: 2:45-3:45 PM

Kaeli Frank, Arraya Tull, Ziyear Oyefesobi

Education Inside-out: Planning Sustainable Construction in North Carolina

Our presentation is part of a greater project through our Environmental Planning and Sculpture in the Environment classes to plan and design a prototype for an environmental classroom that could be built on Guilford’s campus. Our group’s research focuses on the structural building processes of indigenous communities from the North Carolina region. Our goal was to complete background research on less impactful materials and construction, build a model for creating a community-oriented, natural space at Guilford, and elaborating a plan to ensure its environmental sustainability.

Kerry Reeves, Katie Melvin, Samantha Brown, Carolyn Worley

Education Inside-Out: A Closer Community

Our project combines environmental planning and art to focus in on a major issue on Guilford's campus. Guilford lacks an outdoor community learning space for students to free themselves from the box we are taught to think in with our education. The environmental planners are bringing in what they have learned about how to plan human life around nature and the sculptors are bringing the vision to life with a model for the what the outdoor community and learning space.

Thomas Soiles, Hazel Wechsler, Jessica Kent, Willow Stevenson

Education Inside-Out: Interspecies Community

Our project was to create an outdoor classroom that integrated the environment, community, education, and people. Using plants, rock, soil and moss we have designed and modeled an intentional space that fosters commune between plants, animals, and humans. A rock maze, rain chimes, and an overhang constructed from vines and wood cover the space. Ideally the space would be large enough to fit 10-15. We will have a miniature model as well as a ½ size model at GUS.