The Long Now (Fall 2014) |
Human history is punctuated by the prolific rise and inevitable collapse of civilization after civilization. In this project, students researched historical civilizations and distilled a common class theory for the cycle of civilization. Based on this common theory, and because this project is being built for the new High Tech High Elementary, students then created an age-appropriate allegory to represent their social theory. This allegory adorns each side of a 5′ x 5′ x 5′ cubic structure, each side representing a stage of the social theory, and is bordered by elements of student research, engineering process, and draft artwork. The entire piece is animated by a massive clock-like escapement.
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MAKEshift Poetry (Fall 2014) |
The Makeshift Poetry Project is our first highvschool project of the year. This project is a thematic project that combines both art and engineering. We use the knowledge that we know from both these subjects to make a mechanism that demonstrates some sort of story, both physically with the gears and in words with an actual poem.
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