3D Art Planter

In this last project for 2nd year Design, students will work in groups and make a 3D Art Planter from a type of waste of their choice. A waste based 3D art planter? The planter's goal is to raise awareness about waste, using art and plants as a communication tool. What's the relationship between waste, art, and plants? Good question. 

1) It is easy to say that we humans produce too much waste. Let's try to convince others to reduce waste. Let's also get some very specific numbers about our waste...how much is wasted per second, etc?

2) Famous art can be used as a communication tool and most of it is old and in the pubic domain

3) Plants have a special way of making us relaxed and reducing stress (science, yo!)

(Oh, and the Japanese government says we need to cover plants in the 技術の学習指導要領 so we kinda have to)

Some IB Stuff

Key Concept 重要概念: Development

Development is the act or process of growth, progress or evolution, sometimes through iterative improvements.

Related Concepts 関連概念: Resources & Sustainability

Conceptual Understanding 概念理解: 

Can upcycling a waste stream send a message about the growing waste problem?

Global Context & Explorations グローバル文脈と調査内容: Globalization and sustainability

Consumption, Conservation, Scarcity, Natural resources and public goods

Statement of Inquiry 探究テーマ :

Upcycling can make old resources less bad and send a message about sustainability.

Inquiry Questions:

Factual

Where does waste go in my city? What wasted resource can I repurpose to send a message?

Conceptual

Can an artistic expression make a difference to an environmental problem? Can humans ever be sustainable or can they only be "less bad"?

Debatable

Do we produce too much waste? Is up to individuals to make changes to their lifestyle in order to reduce waste?

Last Year's Examples

Previous Years' Examples

The bilingual rubric for this term. Most students will do this one and it is a half report. Students will only do Ai & Aiv, Bii & Biii, Cii & Ciii, and Diii & Div.

The full rubric. If I talked to you about getting your grades up in class, this is the full ABCD rubric you will use.