PUBLIC
High school students who have chosen the optional learning of Visual and Audiovisual Arts. The team of Granada has presented the activity on the occasion of the fourth peer-to-peer training mobility of the project, which took place at the Botanical Garden of the University of Padua, Italy, from 14 to 18 May 2019.

KEY COMPETENCES
 Communication in the mother tongue
 Learning to learn
 Social competences and citizenship
 Humanist culture and expression of sensitivity

OBJECTIVES
 To behold, interpret, reflect and analyse the world around
 To overcome the stereotypes linked to the artistic expression and be able to link it to other cultural fields
 To use the garden, the colours, the texture of the plants to develop creativity, imagination and artistic expression
 To learn how to work in a team to realise an artistic project, outlining organization, steps and self-evaluation. To learn how to be part of a project and assume responsibility for part of its realization
 To develop a cross-curricular learning on the garden involving mother tongue, arts and sciences

GARDENS EXPLORED
The garden of IES Escultor Sanchez Mesa de Otura (Granada)

MATERIALS
To recycle furniture and transform it into ’gardeners’
 small pieces of furniture found in rubbish dumps (wheels, chairs, tables, other objects..)
 woodwork, scraping and cleaning tools for the repairing and preparation of the furniture
 acrylic painting, brushes.

To present texts narrating the new life of the furniture and its transformation into ’gardeners’
 computer for the production of texts
 laminating machine

For the ’gardeners’ plantations .
Interior and exterior plants supplied by a sponsor (Exmo) and by the Municipal Council of Otura Granada.

DEVELOPMENT
 Creation of an additional work team composed of teachers, parents, town officials, sponsors, ready to collaborate, to plan and schedule the work progress, to focus on the material and technical resources
 Presentation of the project : analysis of the consumer habits prevailing in today’s society and of the need to act in an environment-friendly manner. Focus on the meaning of restoring : to renovate, repair or revive something to its previous state giving it new life
 Observation and analysis of the objects and furniture to be recycled : study the ways fit to give them new life and not just a piece of rubbish
 Elaboration of the recycled object seen as a resource able to free and develop one’s creativity. Study of the colours, painting, motifs, collage, plantations
 Writing personal texts telling stories of the furniture transformed into ’gardeners’. Display of the texts on the walls of the school
 Being aware of the impact the new, colourful ’gardeners’ have on the interior and exterior spaces of the school.

EVALUATION
It takes into account the ability to :
Communicate orally and in writing in the mother tongue
 Correct use of the oral and written language
 Produce a personal story on the new life of the object/furniture - Express ideas, information, opinions

Develop competences addressed to awareness and cultural expression
 through art and culture, develop personal enrichment and the capacity to express one’s own relationship with the world
 use artistic creativity as a means of personal expression. Practise visual arts in a real context in an unusual way at school using recycling materials, an art largely employed by the visual artists of this and the past century. Use recycled materials to work in a real environment
 be able to adjust to a specific subject or environment in order to develop one’s own creativity. Use an event, current positive or negative situations as means of personal expression.
 create collective and personal visual, graphic compositions

Learning to learn
Learn how to realize an artistic project, outline its organization, phases, and self-evaluation

Develop social and civic competences. Learn hoe to work in a team, get involved in a project, assume responsibility.

AUTHOR
Maria del Carmen Casa Ubeda, Visual Artist. Teacher of Visual Arts and audiovisuals.
IES Escultor Sanchez Mesa de Otura (Granada) educational centre connected with the pedagogical team of Granada coordinated by the Botanical Garden of the University of Granada, Spain

TRANSLATER
Mary Gino
Association Acquamarina, Trieste, Italie