Learning Goals
Students will be able to investigate buildings, paths, plants, gathering places, and everyday objects through supported observation and community-partner conversations to identify how designed spaces meet people’s needs.
Students will be able to synthesize observations and examples of community cultural traditions to define a need that an individual village piece could address.
Students will be able to prototype, test, and refine a clay figure, object, tree, or building using an initial 2D design and peer feedback to improve how it serves community members.
Students will be able to justify and collaboratively communicate how individual art pieces and shared design decisions create a village that helps diverse community members live well.
Products
Community-Needs Design Portfolio and Clay Village Piece
Each student creates a visual empathy map or observation record, a labeled 2D design, a low-tech first prototype, a revised clay figure, object, tree, or building, and an illustrated or written designer statement. The portfolio traces how firsthand observations, cultural context, peer feedback, and a community need informed one clear improvement.
Collective Clay Village and Community Unveiling
Students combine their pieces into a collaboratively planned village with roads and shared public spaces, using individual research and prototypes to agree on a shared design problem and arrangement. At the unveiling, students guide families and community partners through the village and explain how its features meet needs, reflect traditions, and changed through feedback.
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