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EL JardIn Del Paraiso community park and garden


Process
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This work was my second experiment with a collective aesthetic. In this project with Perre DiCarlo our main public collaborators were school children.  Following is an excerpt from the article that can be found in full on the "La Plaza Cultural" page. The excerpt describes the context of our work with "El Jardin Del Paraiso".

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Students created a map of the school and
adjacent neighborhood including the garden and park.  
The students  did this after taking measurements with a
measuring wheel.

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Students learned sight measuring techniques to determine
​ the heights of all of the buildings in the neighborhood.  
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The student's maps and measurements were used 
to make the pieces of a wooden model.  
Then the students assembled the model.
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The students applied color to the model,
talking about the use of non-literal color.
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The students created scale trees for the model
to mark the places of existing trees.

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The students designed playgrounds and presented
​their designs to the class.
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Photographs of the students working on 
​the model were attached by the teachers 
to the tops of the buildings in the model.
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The completed model was later used by the older
community members to present their ideas to
​the parks department.
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background photo by Marlis Momber of the site  as it was first being cleaned up by the community in 1981.
all other photos © Matt Mitchell and Perre DiCarlo
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