Week 16 and 17

Our last two weeks of ArtSpace allowed us to explore our "Lost at Sea" game a bit further, allowing us to explore concepts of how societies function. Remaining in the teams from the previous week, our three "tribes" found themselves stranded on an uncharted island in the ocean and responsible for building a society. Each team elected a chief, who then chose a second-in-command. The remaining members of each tribe divided themselves into jobs. Cartographers were responsible for making maps of the island (designing the island, its geology, topography, etc.). Hunters searched for food (designing animals, plants and other wildlife that inhabited the island; determing what was safe, dangerous or medicinal). Architects designed shelters using materials found on the island. The chief and second-in-command selected a name for the island and tribe as well as a respresentative flag.

Once each subgroup had settled and agreed upon designs and information for their topic, they rejoined their tribe to share what they "discovered (created)." Then, given an 8-by-4 sheet of butcher paper, each tribe designed a banner-brochure-guide for their island, including all the information gathered from the individualized groups. Our final day (Tuesday) was each tribe's day to present their islands to the class and to convince the instructors why they should be rescued! Our winners were the Coco Tribe from Coco Island.

The students at Omega also presented the instructors with a speech, a song and two large posterboards with signatures of every student and pictures from our ASU field trip. Omega was very thankful for the opportunity to participate in ArtSpace and many students expressed their interest to continue next year!