Light Narratives.The lights that lead to an adventure. Comment by a Year 1 child
Light Narratives Atelierista Exhibition 2018
The lights that lead to an adventure.
How the adventure began.
This experience started when an old flexi
light tube was proposed as a narrative initiator.
The tube was laid on the mat around the
tin stools. As the children arrived questions jumped around. The tube was
experimented with to see its potentials. Surprise and excitement started a
discussion on what could be done with the lights.
Each year group came up with different
proposals that were shared with all the subgroups in their class year.
Ideas were further discussed and
additional material proposed. The
children chose the loose parts according to their vision after exploring the
potentials of the materials available .
They started working on their creations.
As each group worked on the shared piece they enjoyed to see the progress and
the freedom of interpretation that each child brought adding new possibilities
and narratives.
The concept wants to draw attention to the creative versatility of children
across the age groups. One
material many visions.
In the second phase when the project was
reintroduced all groups were very happy to either continue or change the theme
of the narrative.
As the project evolved the children saw
the light as the outline of a narrative and suggested to add material that
would specify the nature of the single projects in detail.
In Year 1 the
lights became a significant concept in their theme- the brain- and became a
process of detailed inquiry. They noticed that the lights could explain the
functions of the brain as their flow changed. Three light effects became
important in their interpretation of what happens when the brain "thinks". Language became a tool of expression .
Reception
While working on the cloud, rain became
an integral part. Materials were chosen to create the “wet” effect and while
selecting it the question of what colour is rain surfaced. As the children
selected beads and buttons of “rain” colour which was quite open to
interpretation a child stated that we were making Ridiculous
Rain as it
only rains dark blue at night. Another child said that rain changes colour when
it falls down and it turns into the rainbow.
Pre-School
Experimenting with the potential
expression of the light tube took a while and it went through phases of quiet
observation, testing of flexibility and physical imitation of the light effects
to land on the common idea of a caterpillar which actually was renamed
CAMOBILLAR. A hairy, attentive athletic creature that wears
fashionable items.
Nursery
The children immediately saw it as an
interesting object looking at the lights and noticing the shape of it. They
then asked for their favourite toy, cars. It immediately clicked that it was a
road. So off went the wroom.. and
zooms and crash! They used all the materials they were accustomed to such as
tins and tubes to create a city.
Selection of comments by the children on their
Light Narrative installation.
Year 1 Light Narratives in Neuroscience
When the lights flash, it is when you have an idea.
When they flow, you are thinking.
When and when they go on and off quickly the brain is
confused. It happens a little at school.
When they are off the brain is sleeping but it wakes up
when you dream.
Reception - Light Narratives in Meteorology
This is Ridiculous Rain! It
can’t rain different colours of rain only dark blue at night.
Rain changes colour when it falls down to make a rainbow.
Pre-School - Light Narratives in Natural Science
The lights look like a Camobillar! No!! It’s called a
CATERPILLAR in English.
It can’t walk without shoes. We can give it ours.
Nursery - light Narratives in Urban Engineering
Vroom…. Beep …..
We need to give them a road in the sky so that they can go
far.
Follow the lights….home.
Second Exhibition in the sister school.
Different children different staging to reflect the identity of the a different community linked to a common project.
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