Imagining My Sustainable Community Summer Art Camp empowers students with an interest in art, design, architecture, and engineering to reimagine the future of Toronto’s waterfront neighbourhood.
In this week-long camp, students will be immersed in a creative multimedia studio experience led by artists and architectural designers to learn about climate art, architectural model-making, and sustainable communities. Students will be introduced to principles of architecture through demonstrations of scaled model-making and multiple art practices that students will use in their final pieces.
Through an innovative exploration of the creative process and climate change solutions, students will utilize the 9 Pillars of Sustainability to imagine, design, and model their own unique projects. This experiential camp will equip students with STEM+ART skills and inspire revolutionary ideas for building sustainable communities.
This camp is intended for children aged 11-14. Maximum of 10 participants per weekly session.
Camp Sessions:
July 29 - Aug 2, 2024
August 12 - 16, 2024
August 19 - 23, 2024
Cost:
$375/week + HST
Daily Schedule:
Camp starts at 9:30am and finishes at 3:00pm.
DAY 1: Introductions, Site-Visits, Concepts of Sustainability and Architecture, Ideation
DAY 2: Mapping, Brainstorming, Outdoor Natural Materials Exploration, Drawing and Sketching, Visit to Power Plant Gallery, Climate Art Exploration
DAY 3: Introduction to Architecture Poetics and Scaled Model-Making, Finalizing Individual Project Designs, Drawing and Sketching Ideas, Physical Model-Making
DAY 4: Individual and Collaborative Model-Making, Finalize Designs and Physical Pieces
DAY 5: Final Touch-Ups, Oral Presentations, Final Art Showing of Projects
About Imagining My Sustainable Community:
Imagining My Sustainable Community is a revolutionary new program that is engaging and energizing young people in a way never before seen in Canadian public education. It delivers an experiential workshop on how communities work, and inspires and empowers them to create solutions that will improve life in their communities for years to come. It’s not a lesson - it’s an experience.