HUMAN CHAIN

16 third and fourth grade students and artist, Maider López asked themselves: What are the work sectors? How can we relate this curricular topic to art? The objective of the workshops was the understanding of the primary, secondary, and tertiary sectors, as well as the appreciation of the possibilities of chain working. Other objectives of the project were to foster the capacity of expression in Basque and implement cooperation as a work method, learning to share and help through group and cooperative work.

The students created different types of fruit by cutting up foam, which they chain transported from one end of the school to the other: standing in a line, they passed the material to each other through the school, crossing the playground, corridors, and stairs until reaching the classroom.

The school’s architecture, a hexagonal-shaped building with a central playground, enabled the students to use the large net that they hung on the interior balcony as a curtain for the playground. It is a school on a children’s scale with a community space through the playground. Its use was debated as a group. This net, which was made out of colored cardboard, is reminiscent of those of fishermen, symbol of the economy’s primary sector. In the same way, each small ring builds an essential part of the large curtain hanging from the balcony.