An education component of DevArt designed to inspire a new generation of developers through the lens of creativity - designed for students aged 9-13 years who have never tried coding before.
The objective was to enable educators to give their students a new found appreciation for the creative possibilities of code. The first phase was a three week series of creative workshops for schools — each led by the DevArt interactive artists. Each session, hosted in the DevArt section of the Digital Revolution exhibition, included hands-on activities, giving children the opportunity to make their very first creation with code: a digital butterfly, a piece of music, or a 3D-printed art piece. Each workshop was developed into lesson plans in-line with the UK’s new national computing curriculum, and distributed to educators by arts and technology organisations.
MY ROLE:
Defined workshops content with the artists
Worked with the edu team at the Barbican (on logistics and schools schedule)
Defined all workshops logistics (materials...)
Planned logistics and production of workshop testing in local school
Worked with creative lead to define bespoke furniture for the sessions and oversee production of this furniture
Briefed engineers volunteers before the sessions
Artists support during the sessions
Oversaw production of workshop materials
Oversaw photoshoot session and video production of some of the sessions
Briefed teachers and introduced teachers and artists