Trash to ART

Welcome to the Trash to Art Initiative. In the upcoming weeks, you'll collaborate with peers across borders to transform discarded materials into art. This transcendent journey not only emphasizes environmental responsibility but also sharpens critical intercultural skills vital for your personal and professional growth.

To foster environmental awareness and cooperation between students from the United States and Mexico by jointly creating a work of art using recycled materials and trash.

The main activity will consist of forming pairs of one student from each country, who will work together virtually to design and construct an innovative and meaningful work of art using recycled materials and items found in the trash.

This experience will also promote the development of skills and meaningful learning in online intercultural environment, such as:

• Critical thinking

• Ethics

• Decision-making 

• Global perspective 

• Collaborative work in online intercultural environments

• Effective communication

By the end of this experience, you will be able to:  

• To develop your ability to communicate effectively through an online interaction with people from different cultures and disciplines, showing pride in your national identity and respect for the richness and characteristics of other cultures. 

• To reflect and increase tolerance and respect for reasoned arguments other than one's own. 

• To recognize how multicultural and multidisciplinary differences impact the same situation. 

• To develop critical and analytical thinking by recognizing and emphasizing the existence and validity of other types of thinking, as well as reflecting, coexisting, dialogue, sharing, acting and solving problems in contexts marked by social and cultural diversity.