Aug 04-25: Create a Mini Exhibition to showcase to your community

Objectives of this exercise are:

  1. To creatively showcase your street furniture ideas as the center piece of a mini exhibition, along with a few other peice’s of your best work.

  2. Planning ahead to design with practicality in mind: The mini exhibition must be quickly deployed and dismantled in a few hours.

  3. To invite your family and community to review your work and share your ideas

  4. To document the feedback and other ideas you receive on your street furniture and other art.

Mini exhibition details:


Date: 25th of August 3-5pm (time to be confirmed)

Location: in front of gate near security booth - must allow for vehicles to drive through but also

Size of display must be no more than 10’ x 10’ feet

Exhibition items: Apart from drawings and models of your street furniture ideas that explain your ideas, Choose art done at 4 other classes.

Chief Guests: We will invite 2-3 chief guests to look and discuss your proposal.

Materials you can use:

  • Drawing boards

  • Cardboard

  • Lightweight tables

  • Umbrellas

  • Colored paint and cardboard

  • Wheelbarrow

  • Bench

Preparing for the exhibition

With two weekends to go. here’s how you can plan your time.

Weekend 1: 4th august

  • Complete your design and find ways of presenting your ideas in an interesting way using drawings and models

  • Weekend 2: 11th August

  • Decide what other artworks will be exhibited and refine them

  • Discuss model stand. How will you create it?

    Weekend 3: 17th or 18th August

  • Create mini exhibition and test out the display in real life. Then for next week (exhibiton) all you need to do is take it outside

  • Create invitation cards for your family and design a poster to hang at the gate.

On the date of the exhibition- 25th August, 3-5pm.

  • Schedule: plan ahead to have everything ready by 3pm. If it rains, let’s postpone the exhibition to the following Sunday, same time.

  • Give each model a name that describes the big idea. Ex: ‘Rainbow garden’, ‘playscape’ ‘game street’ (any language is ok)

  • In addition to the models, you can prepare drawings, pictures, sketches that explain more details of your idea.

  • Students should be prepared to explain their street furniture idea to guests

  • Document feedback: all volunteer teachers should be making notes on what feedback was received for that model. what was the visitors favorite project? Why? Ask them what needs to be improved.

  • End the afternoon with a three cheers for the students! HOORAY!

Here’s some Inspiration!

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