The class studies site-specific and kinetic public art such as Antony Gormley's Angel of the North and Alexander Calder's mobiles, looking at how scale, sightlines and movement change the way people meet a work. Each student picks a spot in the school grounds, photographs and measures it, and rebuilds it in CoSpaces Edu at its measured size, with the nearby walls, path and entrance and a 1.8-metre figure for scale, using class accounts set up by the teacher. Over four lessons they design a sculpture several metres tall for the spot and use CoBlocks to make it move: parts that turn, rise or change colour on a slow cycle, and a change in behaviour when a visitor clicks it. Students walk the approach at eye level to test what can be seen from the entrance and how the movement reads, then revise both form and behaviour. In the final lesson classmates walk through each other's sites, and each student takes a small group outside to preview the piece on the ground at its spot in AR on a school tablet and explain one change they made after testing.
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