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Imaginary Play Space: Close Looking: Filip Dujardin, 1

Let’s look at this sculpture by artist Filip Dujardin.

What do you notice about the size or scale of the sculpture?

What shapes do you see? How did the artist arrange them?

Filip Dujardin. Sequence no 1. 2015, Open Air Art Festival, Flux. Public art installation along the banks of the river Leie in Kortrijk, Belgium.

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Imaginary Play Space: Close Looking: Filip Dujardin, 2

Where do you notice open spaces?

Filip Dujardin. Sequence no 1. 2015, Open Air Art Festival, Flux. Public art installation along the banks of the river Leie in Kortrijk, Belgium.

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Imaginary Play Space: Close Looking: Filip Dujardin, 3

How could you imagine interacting with this sculpture?

Are there places you would like to climb? Walk through? Crawl under? Hide in? Sit on?

What games would you like to play here?

(Larger photos on next slide.)

Filip Dujardin. Sequence no 1. 2015, Open Air Art Festival, Flux. Public art installation along the banks of the river Leie in Kortrijk, Belgium.

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Imaginary Play Space: Close Looking: Filip Dujardin (Large Images)

Filip Dujardin. Sequence no 1. 2015, Open Air Art Festival, Flux. Public art installation along the banks of the river Leie in Kortrijk, Belgium.

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Imaginary Play Space

In this lesson, you will use the shapes you created in Lesson 5 (or make new shapes, if needed) to explore different building techniques and create an imaginary play space.

You will need:

Cardboard Shapes (from Lesson 5)

Extra corrugated cardboard �(shipping boxes) and thin cardboard �(cereal boxes, paper towel rolls)

A flat piece of cardboard to use as a �base for your sculpture

Scissors

Glue or tape

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Imaginary Play Space: Starting to Build

We are going to make an Imaginary Playground or Play Space.

Look at all of the large cardboard shapes that you made last time. How do they remind you of a playground or play space?

Start by choosing two of your large pieces and use slot joining to make a secure attachment.

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Imaginary Play Space: Keep Building

Choose another shape you made. Use your imagination to think about what it could become in your playground.

Could it become a staircase? A slide? A hiding spot?

Keep adding pieces as you continue building your imaginary play space.

Try to stand, stack, lean, or balance your pieces.

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Imaginary Play Space: Rearranging

How can you imagine climbing, walking, crawling, hiding, or sitting in your play space?

Keep rearranging your forms until you have an arrangement that you are happy with.

Where will you use slot joining to make a secure attachment?

Glue or tape the forms into place.

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Imaginary Play Space: Reflection

How did you build with �your shapes?

What pieces did you lean, balance, stand, stack or use slot joining?

How does it remind you of a play space or playground?��Resource:�Additional work by �Filip Dujardin at The Museum of Modern Art

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Remote Arts Learning Partnership

Module Two �

Studio in a School NYC Team

Julie Applebaum, Senior Director

Remote Arts Learning Partnership Project DIrector

Writing Team Project Team

Nina Berinstein Juanita Lanzo Belinda Blum Nicola Giardina Paul Urevitch

Belinda Blum Traci Talasco Andrea Burgay Katherine Huala

Graphic Design

Don Giordano

NYC Department of Education OASP Team

Karen Rosner, Director of Visual Arts

Amber Lodman, Arts Program Manager Kaitlin Trammell, Remote Arts Learning Partnership Project Coordinator

NYC Department of Education Visual Arts Teacher Team

Maria Bonilla Susan Bricker Amie Robinson Lara Tyson

These educational materials were created through a partnership with Studio in a School NYC and The New York City Department of Education Office of Arts and Special Projects (OASP) and made possible by the generosity of The New York Community Trust.