Activity: Twenty-First Century Object - Body
How might you reimagine an object for the twenty-first century?
1. Begin by looking at a series of objects from the Fielding Collection of Early American Art.
2. Have students start with a short brainstorm about their objects to think about how they might reinvent them for the twenty-first century using the planning sheet.
- What is this object meant to do? What makes it work this way?
- How could you improve the way it looks or the way it works?
- How might you focus on an emotional connection?
- How might you focus on a particular part of the object? To make it bigger or smaller?
3. Students can then draw or build their new object with provided materials.
Materials: handouts, pencils, construction paper, popsicle sticks, toothpicks, tape, glue sticks, cardstock, yarn, crayons, markers, cotton balls