TP007

Using local Architecture and Built Cultural Heritage to inform Teaching Practice - what works and what doesn't

Robert Young, New Plymouth Girls High School

Abstract

Using local architecture as a teaching and resource for Graphics (and Technology) and how it can inform teaching practice, student work and outcomes. In so doing it can provide links to the New Curriculum- using and applying values such as innovation and enquiry, community and participation, care for the environment and sustainability and use of different thinking skills. All are relevant to the content of this teaching session

This hour long session will look at some exemplars of architecture and design which have been used to inform senior students work and architectural knowledge and their resultant Graphics practice. The architectural context, design period, materials used, the transforming of materials and other relevant aesthetic and functional values. It will also look at:

• Architecture: as art, as structures and the effect buildings have on individuals and our community
• The Importance of our built environment in using it as a resource in our teaching practice- looking at historical examples
• Empowering appreciation through ones own experiences and knowledge
• Buildings as functional and aesthetic forms of technology and design
• What works for students- examples of local contexts. What does not work.
• The designed and built environment and student interaction and responses/examples
    of student work

PLEASE NOTE

This dissertation will also make reference to 2 buildings featured in the Hawke's Bay Museum's & Art Gallery's Exhibition Long Live the Modern (the text from the book is used as wall text to support the photographs and models displayed). This exhibition is running concurrently with the TENZ conference.

Intended Audience

Teachers of both Graphics and Technology (Year 7-13)

Presenter Biography

As well as being a secondary teacher of Graphics (presently teacher in charge of Graphics NP Girls High School), I am a past member of a district council heritage working party and a member of a conservation overlay zone design assessment panel and have also been an active worker in a civic trust working to educate on heritage buildings and endeavouring to save built cultural heritage. I also recently contributed to a publication which celebrated some of New Zealand's most significant buildings from the Modern Movement (Long Live the Modern-edited by Dr Julia Gatley, Auckland School of Architecture). I also co-researched and curated an exhibition (Sargeant Gallery Wanganui) on a local architect RG Talboys in 2003. This involved the photographing, writing of wall text, the production of a catalogue, a floor talk, forum and the hosting 3 bus tours of the architect's civic and residential buildings.