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  • City in Decline - Totemic Sculpture
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Additional information

View the Recording Templates for this Activity (Microsoft Word, 34 KB)

Guidelines for marking

The following guidelines for marking show one approach to assigning a value to a student's work. Other approaches may be used that better suit the reporting process of the school. Categories, marks, grades, visual representations or individual comments/notations may all be useful.

Range	A student in this range:
High	demonstrates a good understanding of the conventions and techniques of sculpture in planning and designing a freestanding totem to represent city decay and decline uses the structural frame and the conceptual framework to select appropriate materials, objects and construction techniques to create signs and symbols to represent urban decay experiments, evaluates, reflects and considers judgements and intentions in communicating a perceptive point of view about urban decay through diagrams, annotated sketches and documentation in the Visual Arts diary
Satisfactory	demonstrates an understanding of the conventions and techniques of sculpture in planning and designing a freestanding totem to represent city decay and decline uses the structural frame and the conceptual framework to select materials, objects and construction techniques to create signs and symbols that represent some aspects of urban decay experiments, evaluates, reflects and considers judgements and intentions in communicating a point of view about urban decay through diagrams, annotated sketches and documentation in the Visual Arts diary
Progressing	demonstrates some understanding of the conventions and techniques of sculpture in planning and designing a freestanding totem to represent city decay and decline uses the structural frame and some understanding of some aspects of the conceptual framework to select some materials, objects and construction techniques to create some signs and symbols that may represent some aspects of urban decay experiments, evaluates, reflects and considers judgements and intentions in limited ways in communicating a simple point of view about urban decay using some diagrams, annotated sketches and documentation in the Visual Arts diary.

Feedback

The teacher can provide written and ongoing oral feedback to students in the planning phase of the Activity. This feedback will inform students about the appropriateness of selections of materials, objects and construction techniques to assist in planning how to communicate meanings about the city in a sculptural form through signs and symbols. Further feedback may take place when works are exhibited as part of a body of work on the City as Utopia: City in Decline.

Future directions

As a result of this Activity students have developed an understanding about modernist and postmodernist sculptural practice. They have investigated the structural and cultural frames and the conceptual framework to develop a visual language to represent to an audience their relationship to the city in a three-dimensional sculptural form. To view an example of this finished work, click on this link: City in Decline - Totemic Sculpture. Students may extend their investigation and understanding of postmodern sculptural practice and the use of found and recycled materials to create an installation or site-specific works referencing the city as utopia and in decline.