Introduction
Zero Waste is referred to the need of guiding people in changing their lifestyles and practices to emulate sustainable natural cycles, where all discarded materials are designed to become resources for others to use.
It's actually a philosophy grounded in ecological theory, that promotes the four Rs - Rethink, Reuse, Reduce, Recycle - as a lifestyle for a sustainable future and emphasizes on designing and managing products and processes so as to avoid the volume or/and toxicity of waste and conserve natural resources.
How is art connected to zero waste concept?
Recycled art is a specific type of creative work made from discarded materials. So this could be anything from old plastic toys to tires to cans or scraps of cloth.
But art ourt of food? Yes! There are many types of art using food scraps with one or another way, like peel art that uses orange peels, painting by using cola or coffee scraps, artwork out of discarded fruits and vegetables, jewelry out of dried peels, art in cooking, etc.
Task
Your task is to make a research on the concept of zero waste and circular economy so as to be able to understand the need of some artists to turn to art something that is trash for others.
You are also encouraged to search for examples of art related to food scraps, artists that are capturing the food waste problem, chefs that are turning food scraps into works of art for designing their dishes or/and encouraging others to reduce their food waste, and upload all these to a padlet.
Process
1st STEP
Please take a look at the photos of introduction step.
What do you think? Is that a kind of art?Could art like that force people to be aware of food waste?
2nd STEP
Make a research on the web, trying to identify the links of trash art with circular economy. Feel free to make use of the following links, too.
https://www.tomorrowsworldtoday.com/2018/07/25/recycled-art-turning-trash-into-treasure/
https://www.iberdrola.com/culture/recycled-art
https://kulturehub.com/artists-capturing-america-food-waste-problem/
https://www.sbs.com.au/food/blog/2016/05/12/fringe-foodies-turning-food-scraps-works-art
Please also search for art related to food scraps -like the ones we have provided.
3rd STEP
Upload your findings to the following padlet
https://padlet.com/essayland2020/w9u9pe1jh287f4zc
Evaluation
This is how your work will be evaluated.
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Beginning 1 |
Developing 2 |
Qualified 3 |
Exemplary 5 |
Score /20
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Teamwork |
There is one person doing all the work, and the team is NOT working together. |
The team is working individually on their own role, and discuss with others in a group |
Team is working together, but not using all the given resources to connect with one another. |
The whole team is working together, helping each other out, and connecting information with one another. |
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Research / Understanding
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Don't use sources given & information is not factual.Student lacked knowledge |
Use sources were given.Students understood information but couldn't apply those to their projects |
Use sources given, and students understood information but lacked creativity and informational facts |
Use sources, get all information asked, and goes beyond to get and applied extra information to give to their classmates a better idea on the subject |
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Padlet |
No creativity to their posts such a little information that classmates aren't able to understand |
Students posted only text and nothing else. |
Students were able to create good posts but didn't interact to each other. |
Great creativity, students are able to understand the point of the topic |
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Credits
This WebQuest was created by a team of teachers, within the co-funded Erasmus plus KA229 partnership “Eat Smart Save Your Land” (ESSAY LAND), project number: 2020-1-EL01-KA229-078815.
The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.