Learning & Resources
Education is central to the Land Art Generator. By exploring innovative and artful applications of sustainable technologies, our programs spark curiosity and invite learners to engage with science, technology, engineering, and math through creative practice.
LAGI places equal importance on engaging people of all ages, recognizing that the energy transition requires both early inspiration and lifelong learning. For young students, hands-on design experiences cultivate foundational literacy in energy, climate, and systems thinking. For university students and emerging professionals, LAGI offers opportunities to test ideas at real-world scales, bridging theory and practice. For adults and community members, our projects create accessible entry points to understanding renewable energy as a shared civic resource—embedded in public space, culture, and daily life. By working across generations, LAGI helps build a common language around sustainability—one that connects imagination with technical understanding, and individual curiosity with collective responsibility.
LAGI’s educational work exemplifies a STEM-to-STEAM, project-based learning approach. As students design their own land art generators, middle school and high school participants develop applied understanding of concepts such as energy conversion efficiency and capacity factor, and become familiar with measuring and comparing energy in kilowatt-hours. At the same time, they apply principles of form, shape, color, and composition while engaging with ideas from urban planning and whole-systems design—skills increasingly recognized as essential for twenty-first-century problem solving.
LAGI offers workshops and programs ranging from short sessions to multi-week Art + Energy camps and think tanks, working with learners of all ages. This page includes a selection of free educational tools and resources developed by LAGI to support educators, students, and community groups.
Contact us to learn more about programming for youth or adults, guest lectures on the aesthetics of renewable energy, Art + Energy camps, exhibitions, or custom programs designed to engage communities in shaping their sustainable energy landscapes.
Field Guide To Regenerative Water Technologies
This water guide is organized by technology type, but you will find they often function most efficiently when designed as integrated systems of more than one technology type where flows of heat, electricity, and water work in harmony. Almost every one of the technologies in this water guide can be paired with solar electricity or solar thermal systems, providing abundant and carbon-free energy from the sun as the primary feedstock to locally defy entropy and limit the need for external resources.
Field Guide To Renewable Energy Technologies
The future we would like to see is one in which we are surrounded by the most diverse ecosystem of renewable energy technologies and landscapes, each a reflection of local culture and context. This guidebook will help you determine if that object that you find so beautiful is a semiconductor-based artificial photosynthetic cell, a piezoelectric generator, a triboelectric fabric, or a dye-sensitized solar cell. What is the future that you would like to see? Use this guide and design your own renewable energy landscapes!
Kleingarten
In this tiny corner of your world you’ll work and play with Neighbors while becoming a Master Grower. With each turn of the game you will build new features that will eventually yield a multiplying harvest of Resources. Share with Neighbors, support community events, and learn from Master Growers as you earn Victory Points along the way. Each player creates a unique horticultural space (their own Kleingarten!) where they harvest energy and water, grow a variety of plants, and raise small animals.
Dual language English/German
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Regenerate!
Dream, Design, Deploy
Regenerate! is a collaborative resource management game in which players navigate regenerative land stewardship, sustainable development, and systems design thinking.
This project emerged from the LAGI 2020 Fly Ranch Design Challenge. The game was developed in collaboration with the Land Art Generator Initiative, Tunnel Monster Collective, and the Fly Ranch Project.
Infographics
The Land Art Generator creates information graphics that communicate key facts about energy production and consumption, land use, and pathways toward a post-carbon future. These infographics have been cited and reproduced by numerous institutions, including the International Energy Agency.
Art + Energy Flash Cards
Science, technology, engineering, design, and art all come together in this kit!
The Land Art Generator Art+Energy Flash Cards are designed to strengthen the pragmatic problem solving skills needed to address solutions for 21st century energy challenges by offering an engaging tool for science education. They highlight real world applications of STEAM objectives and teach about the importance of sustainability in design.
Dual language English/Danish
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Solve the Climate Puzzle
The goal of this STEAM educational game is to be the first player to solve a complete six-piece puzzle. Answer renewable energy trivia questions correctly to get puzzle pieces.
POWER:
Art + Energy Card Game
Play to ZERO to win the great energy transition!
The twenty-three stunning artworks that are featured on these cards have the benefit of providing clean energy to the city. Together they could power 26,307 homes, demonstrating how our cities and landscapes can become more beautiful as they become more sustainable.
Land Art Generator Archives
The Institute for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art houses the archives of our organization. Researchers interested in the Land Art Generator are encouraged to contact the Museum directly.
Idea Generator Game
There are five dice categories. Look through example images of each category to get a clear understanding of what each one means. Use all five, or leave one or more categories to your imagination by reducing the number of dice.
By playing this game you will begin imagining renewable energy technologies in everyday places—housed in creative forms—and begin to design your own land art generators that could live in your backyard, neighborhood, or city center.
Engagement
Cultural institutions, universities, and municipalities are invited to collaborate with the Land Art Generator on workshops, immersive camps, and facilitated think tanks.
We work with artists, educators, adults, and community stakeholders to design programs that integrate art, renewable energy, and systems thinking—supporting public engagement, interdisciplinary learning, and dialogue around climate and the built environment.
These collaborations can result in strategic planning documents, public programs, youth camps, site-specific educational initiatives, and more.
LAGI SEE MONSTER
Art & Energy Challenge
The LAGI SEE MONSTER Art & Energy Challenge is a chance for students to put their design and technology knowledge and skills to the test!
Students age 12–18 are invited to imagine an work of public art for the Weston-super-Mare seaside that uses renewable energy technology as the medium for the art.
We provide a Toolkit that guides you through the design process step by step.
Youth Prize
To coincide with the LAGI 2016 professional competition, we launched a Youth Prize that invited students to engage directly with the design challenge. Participants worked from a custom Youth Prize design brief and a 13-step Toolkit of activities developed to guide teachers and students through the full design process—from concept to proposal—for a land art generator located adjacent to the Santa Monica Pier.