Unit 3: Sculpture: Interactive installation
Learning about installation art, including identifying and comparing art installations, exploring space and scale in 3D art, problem-solving in construction, planning installations to communicate ideas, and applying knowledge to develop and present installation art pieces effectively.
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Unit 3: Sculpture and 3D: Interactive installation
Unit outcomes
Learners who are secure will be able to:
- Group images together, explaining their choices.
- Answer questions about a chosen installation thoughtfully and generate their own questions.
- Show that they understand what installation art means.
- Justify their opinions of installation artworks.
- Evaluate their box designs, considering how they might appear as full-sized spaces.
- Suggest changes they could make if they repeated the activity to create a different atmosphere in the space.
- Create an installation plan, model or space.
- Describe their creations and the changes they made as they worked.
- Describe how their space conveys a particular message or theme.
- Make and explain their choices about the materials used, arrangement of items in the space and the overall display of the installation.
- Show they have considered options for how to display their installations best e.g. lighting effects.
- Present information about their installations clearly in the chosen format.
- Justify choices made, explaining how they improve the viewer experience or make it interactive.
Suggested prior learning
Unit 3: Sculpture and 3D: Mega materials
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: What is installation art?
- To identify and compare features of art installations.
Lesson 2: Space and scale
- To investigate the effect of space and scale when creating 3D art.
Lesson 3: Everyday amazing
- To create a 3D installation using everyday objects.
Lesson 4: Creative concepts
- To plan an installation.
Lesson 5: Viewer experience
- To use knowledge of installation art to develop ideas into a final piece of art.
Key skills
Experiencing:
- E.01 Encounter, sense,
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Key knowledge
Formal elements:
- Form:
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Key vocabulary
analyse
art medium
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Art and design
Vocabulary display – Art and design S5: Sculpture and 3D: Interactive installation
A display version of the unit vocabulary.