Dans le cadre des séances de travaux manuels, nos jeunes du programme DAIRE’IN travaillent sur la réalisation de prototypes d’installations artistiques qui représentent le modèle d’apprentissage porté par nos centres d’accompagnement des jeunes. En se basant sur un schéma qui affiche comme fondement des autres activités la lecture, l’écriture et l’expression orale, les jeunes ont travaillé en groupe ou individuellement sur leur création.
Voici le travail d’Abdelouadoud :
The basketball hoop’s idea (the octopus-man)
On November 29th, 2019, we had our first handicraft session with Khalid Essallami. This session is about making crafts to communicate specific information. Our first challenge, as participants, was to create an art displaying the activities that are conducted in Connect Institute (Check chart below) using wire, paper, glue, and /or newspapers. I spent the first hour brainstorming ideas, designing them on a paper, and trying out some of them but I wasn’t totally satisfied. A few attempts later, I came up with an idea of a tree. The tree would represent the ecosystem while its roots would be the activities that account for its growth. The trunk would look like an incomplete human body to show that it hasn’t fully developed.
‘Connect Institute Model’
The first session wasn’t enough for us to finish the whole statue; it was only on the second week that I was able to make most of it, out of a spiral wire. As I progressed with my work, the roots looked more like octopus’s limbs. So, I decided to change the idea of the tree to this of an octopus with an upper human body as the head. In the third week, I wanted to add animation to the statue. I thought of plenty of possibilities, and the one that really interested me was the basketball idea.
The idea came when I made a circle out of the statue’s hands and threw a small ball inside. It was fun trying to fit it in the ball. So, I thought of creating a bigger and more sophisticated version of it. This version would have ultrasonic sensors, a small little device that can detect motion, attached to the basket and whenever a ball passes through the hole, a certain part of the statue will be illuminated. The whole statue will be divided into three major parts: the head, the core, and the limbs. Each of these parts will be attached to led lights.
The hoop’s prototype’
‘Ultrasonic sensor’
How is it going to work?
The parts of the statue will be lightened up gradually whenever someone succeeds to score three points in a row. The first ball will lighten up his head, this may either show the features on the face or simply lighten up the whole head. The second ball will lighten up his core, the third his limbs and the whole statue will be on. At the end of each limb, there will be boxes containing icons of music (a guitar), theatre (the happy and sad face), reading (a book), writing (notebook), speaking (mic), and creating (hands).
