Guerilla geography @ Priory

Guerilla Geography @ Priory

GuerillaGeography Art

What is it & why do it?
It’s about Re-thinkingthe places we live in, challenging perceptions, taking new perspectives
Guerilla art is a way of sending messages about a place or a feature to get people to rethink that feature

LITTLE NOTICES…what’s the message?
Help! I’m burning up!

Guerillamessages…

What is the point of guerilla geography art?
Thought provoking
Creative
Subtle messages
Covert action

Think of a message
What kinds of messages could be used in here?

Your mission
10 mins to scout the main school building for ideas for possible messages
Design a guerilla art message poster
Sneakily blu-tac the poster + get it photo’d
Only rules: has to make people think about the space, have a geographical message, be located in a place they can read, and not be offensive/swear

Twitter uploads
Photos of your guerilla art to go on Twitter for live feedback from real people (not just the fake kind you find here!)

Portsmouth’s future view?

Paper trail

Tick, tock….

Heating up

Who is watching?

Secret Places
Geographical detectives

Secret places
Secret places is a way of learning good geographical skills to investigate somewhere but right on your doorstep

What do I do?
In pairs/groups you will choose (or be given) a secret place location somewhere in the school grounds
You have to: investigate your place and think of creative ways to describe this place to others
You will have 15minsto investigate outside then 15mins back in class to prepare your clues to share with the class
Communicate only your clues to others – be selective with the information you give – think carefully, what should you reveal first?

What kinds of clues could I find to describe a place?
What ideas do you have?
What clues do detectives look for?
You will have your senses, your phone, and paper + pencil

Ideas....
TIP:
Don’t make it too easy, be clever, think like a detective.
You could:
- make simple sketches of something in your secret place, e.g. A fountain, a bin, etc.
- pick up ‘evidence’, e.g. Leaves, gravel, etc.
- make rubbings of surfaces, e.g. The floor
- describe different senses: e.g. I can hear….. , I can smell……., I can feel……………
- record the noises you hear
- photograph something from your place

Example: where is this?
I can see: a few cars, brick walls, sky above me, a bit of hedge, some windows, a chimney
I can smell: food cooking, car fumes
I can hear: traffic noise, pots + pans banging
Still can’t get it? Here’s the Sketch:

Before you go out…
What rules do you think would be appropriate for outside the room?
Also… try to not let the others see where you are working!

End of lesson
Present your clues
Random name picker
Class vote – who made the best detectives?
What do you think you’ve learnt?

What makes Priory distinctive?
Sense of place

What senses do you have?
Hearing
Smell
Taste
Sight
Touch
Image copyright of Pshychogeographer

What do you think is distinctive about Priory School?
What makes our school different to others?

Your Mission
Working in pairs, explore the school site + find evidence of things that are DISTINCTIVE about Priory
You could make sketches / rubbings / take photos / record descriptive words / write a poem
Before you go out – plan what you will record…then you will have 20mins outside

Now report back
What did you choose as distinctive?
Why?

Upload to the blog
www.debensgeog.wordpress.com
Your turn to feed back

- little people

Image: slinkachu http://little-people.blogspot.com/

Mini people dolls/lego people/mini dolls.
Students go around school with the little people and have to find places/spaces that are comfortable or uncomfortable for those people.
Idea of perspective, seeing space in new way.
How did it make you think about the place differently?
They then interview each other about why these spaces are god.

ask & seek

What ingredients make a place you..
like
dislike

What about different groups of people?
Does everyone choose what they like/dislike in the same way? How do priorities change?

Magic glasses

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Guerilla geography @ Priory

by David Rogers on Mar 16, 2011

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