17: Eco-brick Structures

In this workshop, The Pearl Protectors and the students put their Eco-Bricks to use by building two stools and a little table.

Maker skills, Problem SolvingMuditha Katuwawala20 June 2020Sri Lanka, Colombo, Art class, Environment, Eco Brick, Marine, conservation Comment

16: The Eco-Brick Workshop

The Pearl Protectors demonstrated as to how the children can build an eco-brick. For this purpose, the volunteers and the children had brought plastic waste that can be used to build the bricks.

Maker skills, Problem SolvingMuditha Katuwawala28 April 2020Sri Lanka, Colombo, Art class, Environment, Eco Brick, Marine, conservationComment

15: Building a little Sri Lankan village

The next day, back at the class after the tour of Apè gama, we selected a collection of natural materials that were a miniature scale of what we had seen in real life. The models that the students came up with were INCREDIBLE.

Observation, Educational tourRanitri Weerasuriya27 April 2020urbanism, Sri Lanka, Colombo, Art class, Environment, village, gama, tourComment

14: 2019! Tour of Apè Gama (Our Village)

We explore a village in the city to understand ecological ways of living through traditional, vernacular ways of life.

Observation, Educational tourRanitri Weerasuriya20 March 2020urbanism, Sri Lanka, Colombo, Art class, Environment, village, gama, tour Comment

13: Building our Mini City: Reimagining Colombo

Mapping big and making a playful, colorful three dimensional model of our dream city!

Visualization, Maker skillsRanitri Weerasuriya10 February 2020urbanism, mapping education, Sri Lanka, Colombo, Art class, architecture, City, Model, Architecture for kids, ScaleComment

12: The City is our Classroom: Our Class Tours Colombo!

The City is our classroom on this double decker adventure.

ObservationRanitri Weerasuriya27 January 2020Building Hope children’s center urbanism, mapping education, Sri Lanka, Colombo, Bus tour, mapsComment

11: Mapping our Street

‘Do you see the humps on the road?’ ‘How many garbage trucks are parked across the playground?’ ‘Did anyone notice the staircases leading to all the houses? How many are there?’

We accepted any answer.