Hello All,

We are now switching gears and planning the best ever Shades of Green education and innovation in art and design exhibit with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to raise awarness and bring greater attention to global climate change.

It’s a fusion of culture, design, art, and innovation over three months featuring collaboratively designed functional art created by teams of students from universities around Los Angeles each focused on a specific and different global warming issue.

Our task now is to collaborate on the event and the space itself.

Questions we should be responding to are:

What is a space for an event such as this like?

What materials can we use?

What should it be called?

What is the Mission and Vision?

That said this visioning section is intended as a team forum and archive for our ideation process.

The success of this forum shall be measured by the degree to which we all choose to participate in it.

Thus I encourage everyone to “just do it” when you have any ideas just login and jot them down here WITHOUT judgement.

Every idea is valid and shall be considered period. The point is DO NOT censor your self just throw it out there, because it may just be a the idea we are looking for or it may trigger an idea from someone else that is the idea we are looking for.

Now let’s start brainsorming!

IDEAS FOR NAMES:

“Shades of Green” artistic innovations in sustainable design. Is that close Adam?

“SMart” Sustainable Mechanized art moving us toward a healthy landscape!

IDEAS FOR MATERIALS:

Plastic bottles

Aluminum cans

Tires

License Plates

Compact CD’s

CRT’s

Signs

Thin Film PV’s

Shoes

Clothes

Tin Cans

Batteries

IDEAS FOR THE SPACE:

Tent made of some kind of alternative recycled material suspended over a vast concrete area adjacent to the park at LACMA

Walls made of various kinds of recyclable materials (i.e. one wall crushed aluminum cans, another plastic bottles, another ground up tires in a “gabion”, another stacked batteries etc.) These walls could inform the movement through the space as well as break it up into separate exhibit rooms or areas.

Tent made of CD’s bound together in a mesh suspended from tent poles maybe even old telephone poles symbolizing the old growth trees we once clear cut. The CD’s symbolizing the disposable society we have created out of a business model for assured long term immense profit. The CD’s would also serve very well in reflecting the suns hot rays away from the visitors below and provide some amount of filtered light and shade inside the tent.

Thin film PV’s as the tent material so the tent itself can generate it’s own electricity while show casing cutting edge PV technology.

We could even create a hybrid tent using CD’s and thin film PV’s.