Playing with ladders

Materials:

Strips of wood, glue, tempera, and paintbrushes.

Project:

1. Studentes create a public work of art for their town.
2. After observing different images of public art, the students go outside to come up with their own interventions.
3. They plan their projects, studying location, feasibility, and possibilities.
4. This class decides to install in their playground a piece based on the shape of a ladder, a typical architectural feature seen in the facades of many houses in the area.
5. They paint strips of wood and glue them together, creating different ladder designs.
6. All the ladders made by the class are piled up or intertwined in an experiment with balance. Thus they construct a shelter, an enclosed space in the middle of an open park.