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Welcome to Slot Shelters, a student collaborative exploration into shelters and patterns reflecting on community globally.
Slot Shelters explores community identity through online decks of slotted cards which are printed and assembled into models of play houses and shelter in public spaces. The project envisions an online growing deck of cards created by students around the world. 4th and 5th Grade students from various schools, both inside and outside the U.S.A., will collaboratively design these cards printed with digital photos and digital patterns distilling ideas of their environments past, present, and future. The Slot Shelters Project integrates math, arts, social studies and 21st century learning skills.
The final outcome will be student created digital models of structures in Google Sketch up, a library of a online deck of printable cards and large Slot Cards which aim to bring people together in playful experimentation as they assemble the 40″x 22.5″ cards in outdoor public spaces, creating shelter constructions metaphorically connecting and balancing community components. Locally in San Jose, Slot Shelters will attempt instill a vision of aesthetic possibilities and anchor Silicon Valley with a sense of place. Students’ designs and reflections will also be cataloged on this project site. Visitors to the site will be able to pick and choose Slot Cards from the collection and print these on their printer to build mini structures of their own. Each card will have information on the back explaining meaning and source image for card design. Students will also be creating collaborative structures online in Google Sketch up and apply their photos and patterns as surfaces on their virtual shelters.
Slot Shelters will utilize a variety of digital tools: Repper Pro, Sumo Paint, Google Sketch Up and VoiceThread.
What are slot cards?
Slot cards are cards that have cuts in them so that the can be connected to each other to form structures. This sample is made from a deck of Mexican lotería cards.
The cards that inspired Slot Shelters are the Ray and Charles Eames House of Cards, Totem Building cards and Damion Ortega’s slotted tortilla cards.
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