For the Niewe Veste, the Breda graphic design festival and KOP in Breda, the Netherlands I participated in a project about signage for primary education. How can the children from the schools in the neighbourhood help to generate ideas for signage that is useful for them in their neighbourhood. And at the same time, how can these children learn about design and signage.
I was in charge of group 3/4 (age 6-7) and together we tried to discover which places are the most important in their neighbourhood that would be most needed to have a place on a map. After deciding which places where most important the students worked in groups to think about what this place was about in design drawings and later build a model of this place in cardboard an paper. All together the cardboard models of the children formed a big map on their school yard where the streets and environment was added by drawing on the tiles.
The result was a map where you can walk into with imaginary models that communicate the essence of the most important places in the neighbourhood.
It is here, there and online. Local is the frame in which you are yourself
Local Intelligence
Jul, 2012
Local is a place that is defined by the group of people that holds it together
Local Intelligence
Jul, 2012