Real Life Art

This series of lessons or mini critical projects serves to view how the art and design of cultural artifacts, meaning: monuments, bridges, buses, buildings, roads, urban planning...etc. are value-laden works of art that convey both explicit and implicit messages in their form and functionality. 

Item 1: The Toronto Go Train Project
(http://www.arttrain.no9.ca/#)


"No.9 is an arts orga­ni­zation that uses art and design to bring awareness to environmental concerns. We deliver programs in schools and in the public domain designed to encourage the use of creative thinking to resolve environmental issues and to promote a sustainable lifestyle." 
(http://www.no9.ca/mission.php)

"Public Art is the communal ver­sion of this expe­ri­ence and can act as a cat­a­lyst for cultur­al dia­logue and change. As a society we are currently driv­en by the desire for a lifestyle of per­pet­ual growth that is not socially or envi­ron­mentally sustainable. Vision­ary voic­es are needed to inspire a cultur­al shift towards a glob­al sustainable lifestyle. "
(http://www.no9.ca/mission.php)