Fastnet Lighthouse from base
©Leonard Sheil
©Leonard Sheil
Angebote von Kulturschaffenden für Schulen
 Design Altersstufen: ab 14 Jahre Arbeitssprache(n): Englisch Themen: Beschreibung Leonard Sheil Irish artist,living and working in Austria. The project would be conducted through english language. No special equipment,but using what is available in any particular school. Lighthouses - Signals from the past or Places to explore new ideas. Since early times,Lighthouses have represented one of humankind’s foremost gesture of benevolence. Warning seagoers of eminent danger or hazard,the first fires that were set on coastal headlands,developed into the modern,and highly sophisticated mechanisms that dot coastal territories all over the world. However,these extraordinary buildings,sometimes located on unimaginably difficult and dangerous places,have become almost redundant in the modern world. Maintained as outposts by former fulltime lightkeepers,they sustain some important information,and still function as a cautionary measure of possible occurance. Today’s complex navigational equipment aboard most commercial shipping and pleasure craft, make the need for lighthouses almost obsolete. The lighthouse is now on the peripheral not just in the technical sense. They are now fully automated. Have they become a surplus to a previous functional life? What would students of a country unfamiliar with lighthouses in general make of it? What kind of a project could this generate? Imagine the idea of isolation on a rock in the middle of the ocean,but still connected to a world via technology Besondere Hinweise Imagine the environment - a rock the size of a city block and devoid of supermarkets, libraries,fast food, regular postal delivery, dentists, doctors, and teachers. Lighthouse dwellers in the past had fierce independence, a unique entrepreneurial knack for innovation and resourcefulness. Lightkeepers had to be a ‘Jack of all trades’ - a mechanic, electrician, plumber, cook, teacher. They collected scientific data, observed tidal changes,wildlife patterns, and recorded unusual natural phenomena. The Project A film about a lighthouse and a recently published interactive ibook for ipad,about the famous Fastnet lighthouse would introduce the project to students . This would be the basis to begin the exploration of ideas. An large outline drawing of a lighthouse would be the foundation for students to use to re-design a new function for a lighthouse. Re-invent its interiors,think about new ways to use existing equipment, examine techniques in the original building process. The students would be encouraged to think in any dimension,to make the ideas realistic proposals. In Ireland I organised a similar project as an artist-in-school residence. It was based on a Lighthouse situated in Dublin bay,but with a different concept. LS. links to introductory material: http://www.leonardsheil.com/LS/Film_intro.html ibook for ipad: https://itun.es/ie/Gyc4O.l Kontakt Leonard Sheil 2540 Bad Vöslau Niederösterreich E-Mail: Formular öffnen Webseite: http://www.leonardsheil.com » Profil und alle Angebote von Leonard Sheil |