Spritivity
Projects in East London and Beijing
for Students at Secondary School Level
The Spritivity Secondary School Programme
between RDFZ School in Beijing
and Stoke Newington School in
London provided
a good opportunity for students to share and exchange
their thoughts regarding concepts and practice of
architecture situated in their local contexts. Students
developed projects employing Spritivity ideas to explore, in
innovative and creative ways, instantiations of
mathematical conceptsthat were grounded in material
edifices with rich archiectural, social and cultural
references.
In
Beijing, a Mathematics class of 13-14 year-old students at
RDFZ school explored instances of the abstract concept of
Symmetry in the rich context of the structure and contents
of the Yuan Ming Yuan Gardens.
Explore RDFZ School Symmetry
Projects
In London, a Mathematics class of 13-14 year old students
at Stoke Newington Secondary School, Hackney, explored
material instantiations of the abstract concept of the
Golden Ratio in the rich context of the architecture and
exhibits of the British Museum.
Explore Stoke Newington School
Golden Ratio Projects
In each case,a group of students visted the locations,
photographing and video-recording particular aspects of the
groundings for the instantiations which they considered to
be of particular significance for their individidual
projects. They then analysed, in creative ways, the
architectural, social and cutural references that they
detected in these groundings, through creating multimedia
productions on the PowerPoint platform. The individual
productions were exchanged within the whole class and
collectively explored as rich contexts for sprite
characterization and devlopment. You can see details of how
thes priects were made, and their contexts and creative
outputs, by clicking on the links below.