Art Canvas
Turning your neighbourhood into a canvas for art by decorating it with reusable materials
Sustainability Category:
GameCard Type:
Location:
everywhere outside your house
Player Group
Everyone
#art_canvas #neighbourhood_decoration #decoration_cheap_material
Further Information
Gejia Village in China
Sustainable Development Goals
Facts:
Every week people in each neighbourhood can gather together. they bring all the reusable material that they have collected during the week. they start decorating their neighbourhood.
- it can beautify neighbourhoods
- it can decrese waste production
- it can increase social activities between residents
- it can decrease CO2 emissions
- it can increase gender equality because all people can participate
1. At the beginning people might be reluctant, because they might feel it is difficult or not possible
1. some artists from the neighbourhood can teach people how to use such materials to decorate their neighbourhoods
Top:
people come together every week, try to collaborate and enjoy their time to fight climate change in the scale of their neighborhood
Flop:
people do not accept this idea and try to spend time on their own
Sustainability-Indicators
Social & Economical
the same experience in Gejia village: the total economic output around 120,000 in 2019,in 2020 expected to reach 500,000 yuan
it increased the income of local residents by 2.5 million yuan ($385,910)
– http://en.people.cn/n3/2020/1015/c90000-9769279-2.html
– https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202110/04/WS61654507a310cdd39bc6e70c_6.html
– https://newsghana.com.gh/artistic-transformation-of-an-ancient-village-in-china/
– http://www.ezhejiang.gov.cn/2020-07/17/c_515803.htm
– https://www.chinadailyhk.com/article/150201#Gejia-village-impresses-with-its-artistic-outlook
– https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202109/1234003.shtml
– https://www.globaltimes.cn/galleries/4030.html
Authors & Editors
Cong Zhiqiang, associate professor at the School of Art from Renmin University of China
Gejia Residents