First Global Tree Lesson In Japan!

Bakery Sailer is gonna sponsor our Dutch cooking class

Found a school in Scotland to join the GLOBAL TREE project

Found a school in Holland to join the GLOBAL TREE project.

ROGER SOARES on THE ENVIRONMENT

GLOBAL TREE PROJECT

DAIMYO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ( The first school for my GLOBAL TREE-project)

PLANNING

WORKING ON A GLOBAL NETWORK

ARCHITECT IDE KENICHIRO


Ide Kenichiro is the organizer of Designing. For the last 3 years Teku Teku has been joining his Design event. I met up with Ide today to talk about my plan and see what he thinks about it.

Cycling up to our meeting place I came up with the following idea.
1. Japanese kids make drawings
2. I copy the drawings
3. They put a copy of their drawing in an envelope and write their name and a message.
4. I take the envelopes to Holland where the kids get an envelope.
5. They look at the picture and make their own drawing based on what they got from the Japanese kid.
6. I copy the Dutch drawings 2 times. One copy goes into an envelope back to the Japanese kid with a message and one I will take to the next country. In this way a chain will form .

Ide's idea:
he seems to like it only would like the connections to branch out instead of making a chain only. The next Design event will be April 21st~25th and will be hold in IMS again. This will be a great location to start our event.

TEKU TEKU TREE AROUND THE WORLD ON COUCHSURFING

MOVIE TEKU TEKU HISTORY + NEXT PROJECT

TEKU TEKU TREE COLLAGE IDEA


I have been struggling over the shape of the tree. I can't find the answer.
I meet up with Keishi today
Keishi's suggestion:
- Make the tree into a collage.
- Give every student a small piece of paper this will be placed in the tree
- The tree will slowly grow bigger and bigger
- This way the number of schools won't have to be decided before
- The tree shape is changable
- Its more creative.

I LOVE IT !

WORKING ON AN EVENT PROMO MOVIE

RINO GOES TO SCHOOL


I made a little sample movie of 9 year old Rino's morning routine, from waking up to going to school.
I would like to do this in different countries.

Rino's ideas;
Through this project Rino hopes to make friends all over the world.

Thanks Rino you are a great little actress !

TEKU TEKU ON FACEBOOK

FLORAL DESIGNERHANS HAVERKAMP


I get a phone call from my friend Hans.
Hans is a floral artist who gives demonstrations all over the world and produces some amazing creations.
I tell Hans about my travel / movie making plan. Hans is very enthusiastic. He suggest to make something and send it back to the previous school.

Hans tells me to focus on:
- Making connections between different cultures
- Showing different cultural aspects.
- Get the media involved. For me it might be difficult to get permission to video children but for the official media it will be much easier.

TEKU TEKU TREE AROUND THE WORLD


I meet up with Roger.
His suggestion;
- Divide a tree up in parts.
- Have the kids in the different countries create one part of the tre
- Together they will form a tree.
- He likes to focus the eco messages on the benefits of trees.

DAIMYO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

I go to Daimyo elementary school where I talk with Kinoshita about my plan, hie is enthusiastic.

Kinoshita suggestions:
-It should be group 3 and 4.( 8~10 years old)
-During my travel he wants to keep in contact, make my travel part of the kids curriculum

ECO POSTER CHALLENGE TRIAL MOVIE


The idea would be to have 1 class make 1 poster together on an eco topic. In the movie I would put the poster somewhere in the street view and kids could act inside the poster.

ARTIST SUSAN ROBB

I met Susan Robb 2 years ago in Seattle.
. At that time she was making an art installation called Toobs. I helped her setting up the toobes.
Susan is an artist who often makes art with a an environmental message. She also is an adjunct Professor, at the University of Washington, Seattle.
I spoke with Susan about my Project plan.

Susan tells me :
-It will be difficult to film children.( getting the permission )
-start trying things out.
-Think of my final goal.

ENVIRONMENTAL & SUSTAINABILITY ENGINEERING STUDENT ROGER SOARES

( This poster my trial)


I speak with Roger and he has the following idea:

Worldwide Youth ECO Poster Challenge
Concept: To create a unique idea that reflects both local and cultural
values/ideas.
Task: Students with help of their teacher are to create a poster that
demonstrates how to solve some local environmental problem.
Requirements: Teachers need a large poster like paper and some
coloring tools (markers, paint, etc.)
- Students in should create one poster per school
- Poster project should be an after school event not requiring more than a few hours total
Summary: Poster will be represented in a worldwide collage in
a video. *Students with parental permission may be allowed to be in the video.

Let me know what you think of this concept. This would be simple and would require
very little time and resources by the teachers/schools and would also be simple and focused.

MOVIE NIGHT THE ELEVENTH HOUR


Organizer; Roger Soares
More people showed up then expected.
It was a fruitful night with a little feedback session after watching the movie.

VISUAL ARTIST LAYNE WAEREA

I met Layne in Fukuoka Japan where she would organize art events. Now Layne lives in New Zealand and works as a Lecturer at Auckland University of Technology.
Layne tells me:
- I need a clear mission
- Most teachers are busy so should keep it simple and easy to do
- Shouldn’t plan it too much in detail its more creative to let it flow naturally

EARTH

Getting inspiration from my Kindergarten students.

MAKING UP CHRISTMAS TREE


For last event we printed farrrrrrrr to many leaflets. Not very environmental friendly. So I decided to make a Christmas tree out of them. About 1000 leaflets were used.

SHARE FORWARD

I speak with my friend / 'Green' management student Dan about my coming up project.

Dan's suggestion:
Sharing it Forward

( I love this idea)

DESIGNERS ADVISE


I tell Keishi about my new plan. He likes it.
His advise:
- You need a final aim

TEKU TEKU AROUND THE WORLD




Have been playing around a bit with Ecochan to see what I can make him do.
While playing with Eco chan I came up with the plan to make an Eco movie for children made by children.
From June 2010 I am planning to travel the world.
With Eco-chan (our logo) playing a big role in the movie. Showing children they can make a difference!
Still very much in the experimental stage open for suggestions !