The poles will melt and water will flood everything. effect a meteorite it will take months earthquakes and tsunamis. there will be a new one ice Age. Plant life will spread and large forests or marshy plains. A series volcanic eruptions will cause major new climate change and The unification of all continents. This Ozon layer will disappear and the sun’s rays will reach our planet unfiltered. And meanwhile people, animals and plants will fight, adapt, they will symbiosis to ensure their survival on earth.
Although by themselves they can be the central axes of any film, science fictionpreviously reported scenarios how did they imagine the future in the long run this planet 122 third and fourth year students Department of Secondary Education at the Pere Maria Orts i Bosch Institute in Benidorm.
thanks to them project “Symbionts. Design fiction” plastic artist laura salguerothis Benidorm IES has been selected to participate in the educational project “Artistic Resistances” encouraging Ministry of Education and the Museum Consortium developed in 15 Community-wide Secondary Schools, four in the province of Alicante.
aqualia, aquatic, cryozoic, vegalia, vulcania And ozonozoic Is this the time when students imagined they’d live on Earth? 10,000, 50,000, 100,000, 500,000, one million and 50 million yearschanges, evolution, climate and great extinctions like what has happened on the planet before PaleozoicHE Jura or in Cretaceousamong others.
And all, seen from an airplane Combines Art and Biology, and this involved a dozen teachers from both disciplines of this institute to create what the genre would look like and how it would evolve. symbiotes for survival According to Matilde Pastor, professor of the Department of Plastic Arts, it is in the new environment and living conditions that occur.
From fishtail butterflies winged lizards, people with growing gills reptiles with turtle heads and fins, or non-photosynthetic or non-photosynthetic plants to breathe underwater be able to resist drought and heat extreme.
art in the classroom
“Working on this type of project is the best way for you to be truly successful. art enters school, Matilde explains that students experience first-person what a creative process is and that it is not something that may seem a priori remote, but is something that anyone with a bit of interest and creativity can achieve.” motivation what students are instilled.
Teachers and students of artists Laura Salguero and Pere Maria Orts to realize “Symbionts. Design setup” have been working since october; laying the foundations for it first; then, since the end of January, he has been working on the field project, which has gone through only a few phases: from imagining future scenarios to creating the species that will live in these species with their scientific and common names, characteristics, habitats. such as how they exist, how they relate to each other, how they feed and reproduce…
Among the techniques used for this creative process are photo collage and then use the formula cyanotypeA photographic process, one of the first photographic printing techniques, that uses iron salts to create a blue-toned image.
The project will end with post editAs a handbook or treatise on biology, a species animal facility of the future scientifically, according to these students, the place where each of the beings and plants will gather, Thousands and millions of years from now, they will continue to live on our planet.
Three female scientists as inspiration
Laura Salguero, the artist behind the “Symbionts” project, inspired by three female scientists: American biologist Lynn Margulis one of the leading figures in the field of biological evolution; Donna Haraway leading American academic in science and technology studies and ecofeminism; and english botany Anna Atkins She is considered to be the first woman photographer and the first person to publish a photo book on algae and plants with the cyanotype technique in 1943.
In addition, the artist argues that in addition to bringing art closer to the youngest, he seeks a change in the way we understand our planet, the universe, in order to break the human-centered understanding and go one step further by using speculative fiction.