During the week of February 9th, Milagro artists visited three different ELL classes at Baker Prairie and four different ELL classes at Canby High in the first of the 2009 “Art of Science” residencies. Students learned about what environmental sustainability means for the future and designed their own idea of what a utopia could look like. Working in groups, they designed their own communities, created posters and made presentations in their classrooms. Some of the stellar examples were Volcano Island, Peruano, Madagascar and Kenya.
Volcano Island residents heat their homes with thermal energy from the volcanoes. Peruano citizens live on terraces carved in the mountains of Peru and have a strong community garden program. They also have designed a wooden sleigh that they use to pull their food and water up the mountainside. Citizens of Madagascar have a sound government and strong community participation. Kenyan residents live in adobe structures built into the walls of the Grand Canyon, and fish from the Colorado river in their hand carved canoes.
Most of the students believed in a fair and open government where everyone voted. Life was simple, with basic needs covered by fishing and hunting with a respect for nature, only taking what they would need and replanting when possible. Most communities had a communal system for gardening and cooking and were planning to use alternative energy via wind, solar and water power. Most of the communities also made no drugs or alcohol a mandatory law, along with no fighting and respect for others.
Volcano Island residents heat their homes with thermal energy from the volcanoes. Peruano citizens live on terraces carved in the mountains of Peru and have a strong community garden program. They also have designed a wooden sleigh that they use to pull their food and water up the mountainside. Citizens of Madagascar have a sound government and strong community participation. Kenyan residents live in adobe structures built into the walls of the Grand Canyon, and fish from the Colorado river in their hand carved canoes.
Most of the students believed in a fair and open government where everyone voted. Life was simple, with basic needs covered by fishing and hunting with a respect for nature, only taking what they would need and replanting when possible. Most communities had a communal system for gardening and cooking and were planning to use alternative energy via wind, solar and water power. Most of the communities also made no drugs or alcohol a mandatory law, along with no fighting and respect for others.
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