About
What links toothpaste, space shuttles, tea cups and your favourite magazine? What material links London with the planet and its people? What creative work improves hand-eye co-ordination? Through the investigation of clay’s physical, cultural and creative properties, pupils explored the creative potential of their own
neighbourhood and the wider world.
Schools worked with practitioners to investigate clay, its origins, uses over time and in cultures the world over. Pupils explored: ceramic skills, digging and refining, archaeology, film animation, storybuilding and dance.
The schools:
Barnet
Frith Manor Primary School – pupils explored different decoration techniques to create roulettes and stamps with clay, fabric and paper.
Ealing
Clifton Primary School – pupils learned how cities grow, and how journeys are made through clay filmanimation.
Enfield
Hazelbury Junior School – pupils took part in digging and refining, followed by sessions with an archaeologist to create a large-scale 3D map of the world.
Enfield
Chace Community School – students, teachers and parents created a large-scale outdoor totemic sculpture for permanent installation in the school grounds.
Haringey
Broadwater Farm Children’s Centre - children from 9 months to 4 years created a large-scale site-specific structure.
Havering
Scargill Infant School – pupils made an animation film to send to a school in upstate New York.
Lewisham
Ashmead Primary School – pupils and parents made an imagined landscape of connecting cities and a mini museum with artefacts from home.
Lewisham
Trinity School – students used architecture as their starting point to explore clay forms, buildings and future cityscapes.
Newham
Keir Hardie Primary School – pupils made and sent roulettes as a “relay baton” to a primary school in South Africa.
Redbridge
Woodlands Infants School – pupils used clay, dance, archaeology and animation to explore animals and journeys.
Waltham Forest
Henry Maynard Junior School – the core learning group focussed on the changing shape of pots through design, archaeology and dance.
|
Download the poster here...
Lead organisation:
Clayground Collective was set up to realise ‘Project Clay’ - a venture to create a new public space in London in 2012, using clay.
www.claygroundcollective.org
|