Youth tinker with solar technology during the 2015 Art+Energy Camp.
Model making during the 2015 Art+Energy Camp.
A LAGI workshop with middle school students utilizing the Art+Energy Flash Cards.
LAGI Director, Robert Ferry, works with a group of high school students at a lab in the Energy Innovation Center of Pittsburgh, helping them to calculate the amount of electricity that their land art generator artwork would generate. Over the course of the three-hour workshop, the students designed an artwork in response to the LAGI 2015–2016 Youth Prize for a site in Santa Monica.
A LAGI workshop with high school students at a lab in the Energy Innovation Center of Pittsburgh.
A LAGI workshop with middle school students.
LAGI Directors, Elizabeth Monoian and Robert Ferry giving a presentation at the office of the J.M. Kaplan Fund in New York City.
Photo courtesy of the J.M. Kaplan Fund
LAGI Director, Robert Ferry giving a presentation in Glasgow, Scotland
Youth help to construct a solar artwork during the 2015 Art+Energy Camp
Youth tour sites around Pennsylvania to get an understanding of the energy mix of Western PA, during the 2015 Art+Energy Camp.
Lessons in energy science, technology, and art Model during the 2015 Art+Energy Camp.
A LAGI workshop with middle school students.
LAGI board member and designer, Paul Schifino, at the LAGI 2012 exhibition at the Arsenal Gallery in NYC
A LAGI workshop for all ages at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh.
A LAGI 2014 exhibition in partnership with the Danish Design Center at the Design Society in Copenhagen.
A LAGI 2014 exhibition in partnership with the Danish Design Center at the Design Society in Copenhagen.
A LAGI pop-up workshop for youth.
LAGI 2010 exhibition at the 2011 World Future Energy Summit
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon visits the first exhibition of designs submitted to the biennial LAGI design competition.
His guide was overheard explaining to him that "renewable energy can be beautiful." Photo by Roger White.
Thank you to Masdar for supporting LAGI 2010.
LAGI 2012 exhibition at the Arsenal Gallery in Central Park, NYC
LAGI 2010 exhibition at the 2011 World Future Energy Summit
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Educational Programming
Education is fundamental to the Land Art Generator. The innovative and artful applications of sustainable technologies can spark the imaginations of young people and trigger curiosity in science, technology, engineering, and math. Our programming is a great example of STEM to STEAM and project-based learning. Through the process of designing their own land art generator, middle school and high school students show applied understanding of concepts like energy conversion efficiency, capacity factor, become familiar with using kilowatt-hours. At the same time they are applying knowledge of form, shape, color, and touching on aspects of urban planning and whole systems design. These are exactly the kind of skills that researchers tell us will be important for jobs in the twenty-first century.
We provide workshops and programs ranging from a few hours to weeks-long Art+Energy camps and think tanks, working with people of all ages.
Contact us if you would like us to provide workshops for youth or adults, give a lecture on the aesthetics of renewable energy, facilitate an Art+Energy Camp, exhibition, or brainstorm a custom approach to engaging people with the design of their sustainable energy landscapes.
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.
Field Guide To Renewable Energy Technology
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!
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..
Regenerate!
Dream, Design, Deploy
Regenerate! is a collaborative resource management game in which players navigate regenerative land stewardship, sustainable development, and systems design thinking.
It's a project of the LAGI 2020 Fly Ranch design challenge. The game was developed in collaboration with Land Art Generator, Tunnel Monster Collective, and Fly Ranch Project.
Infographics
The Land Art Generator creates information graphics that help to quickly explain facts about energy production and consumption, land use, and point the way to a post carbon world. Land Art Generator infographics have been cited and reproduced by a number of 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.
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.
Youth Prize
We held a Youth Prize to coincide with the LAGI 2016 professional competition.
In addition to a custom Youth Prize design brief, we provided a 13-step Toolkit of activities that teachers and students could use to take them through the entire design process for the development of a land art generator for a site next to the Santa Monica Pier.
IMAGE CREDIT
Oasis, 3rd Place Winner, 2015–16 LAGI Youth Prize
STUDENTS: Hanna Wells, Sagar Kamath, Gabriel Tobias
ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES: flexible solar thin-film, piezoelectric stacked actuators (similar to Windstalk from LAGI 2010), point absorber wave energy converter
ANNUAL CAPACITY: 2,000 MWh
HIGH SCHOOL: Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA) Magnet, Pittsburgh Public Schools
TEACHER: Allan Finch
Workshops & Camps
(all ages)
Reach out to us if you would like the Land Art Generator to provide STEAM workshops or camps in your community.