Background | 活动背景

活动背景

•传统教育使孩子们从小循规蹈矩，行动思维整齐划一，这无疑限制了孩子们的创造性思维，他们习惯接受却并不主动意识到他们拥有的创造力。本次活动目的在于激发孩子们的潜能，培养孩子们的创造意识并给予机会展示他们的创造力。
•我们相信，孩子，看似弱小却拥有最原始最强大的“想象力”。所以我们倡议孩子们最大程度地发挥想象力与创造力，创作出最具创意的艺术作品。主题则是收获人类最多关注与爱心的‘熊猫’。熊猫不仅是珍稀动物的标志，也不仅仅是中华民族的象征，其本身更是‘爱心’的结晶。
•“孤老”、“空巢”、“低保”、“困难”和“生活不能”等众多字眼在提及老人时出现的频率日渐频繁。老人们需要帮助。而在这个活动中，孩子们贡献出自己的财富——创造力与爱心，去帮助老人们建造一座温暖的家园。
•2006年底,河南省65岁以上的老年人口已达791万人。河南是中国老年人口最多的省份,老年人口规模巨大,约占全国老年人口总数的7.6%。*
•河南作为全国人口大省和农业大省,农村人口老龄化程度高于城镇是人口老龄化的重要特点。*
•农村青壮年劳动人口流动到城市从事务工经商,农村青壮年人口大量流出,使农村留守老人比重增加；也使对农村老年人的日常照料功能弱化。*
* 河南省人口老龄化基本特征分析 Journal of Henan College of Finance & Taxation Feb1 2008

Background:
•Traditional education makes children behave and think rather stiff and in the same manner, which limits children’s creative thinking ability. They are used to accept existing knowledge but not to realize about their ability to CREATE. This project aims to inspire their potential, foster their consciousness of creativity and to provide them with opportunities to exhibit their talents.
•We believe, children, that are defined the weak, actually have the most original and powerful “Imagination”. Therefore, we encourage the youth to give free rein to their imagination and creativity, to create the most fabulous artworks under the theme of PANDA that receives a lot of attention and love from people. Panda is not only the sign of rare animals but also a sign of China, and what’s more, as loved by all, panda itself is actually a sign of LOVE.
•The word “Loneliness elderly”, “Empty home”, “low-income”, “difficulty” and “live disabled” etc. are mentioned frequently when concerned about the old. The elderly needs help, and in this project children contribute their fortune (creativity and love) to build a warm home for these helpless elders.
•Till the end of 2006,there were up to 7.91 million people aged 65 or over in Henan province, making up 7.6% of the total elderly population. Henan province has the greatest elderly population in China.*
•Henan, as a major agricultural province, The concentration of elderly in rural areas is higher than in cities.*
•The young are moving from rural areas to cities for study and business and finally stay in cities, which increases the percentage of elders in rural areas, and also leads to lack of care for elders.*
Source: Journal of Henan College of Finance & Taxation Feb1 2008

On-Line Carpool Service

On-Line Carpool Service

Contact: Zhang Weiwu zhangweiwu+hitch@realss.com

So what's the big idea?
We are web professionals who want to do a web service for people to share cars by building a carpool website.

Why?
* Because there is a huge demand.
* Traffic jams in Beijing. Commuters suffer.
* People waste their time.
* People's health is in danger: by daily stress (direct), by air pollution (indirect)
* Environment suffers. Carbon emission. People need a solution
* People already practice it. (For example: 顺风哥 )

Car pooling difference between the West and China
* In the West carpooling is mainly used for long distance travel, in china for commuting.
* In the West, focus on saving long distance travel cost. In China, beyond cost, there is also need for comfort and dignity.

Legality
Recently legalized in China

For more information or if you would like to assist with the project as a…
* Media partner
* CSR partner doing green commuting
* Documentary director looking for topics
* Idea contributor
Contact: Zhang Weiwu zhangweiwu+hitch@realss.com

**Note: This is a non-GTB project.

The Pop Bottle Car 饮料瓶汽车

THE POP BOTTLE CAR: A collaboration with artist Doug Lewis and the grade 9 students at Canadian International School Beijing.

饮料瓶汽车－与北京加拿大国际学校艺术家Doug Lewis和他的9年级学生们的合作

By Doug Lewis. Chinese Translation by Juliet.

I started working with pop-bottles last year for the sheer enjoyment of it. Truth be know, because they were free and readily available, not because I was making recycling-based art.

My initial idea of pop bottles as ‘pop-art’ created by youth -- the most targeted consumers and future producers of pop culture -- makes the bottles a perfect object-as-metaphor.

I am the middle/high art teacher at CISB where soda pop and popular culture are both a major consumption.

我用饮料瓶子搞创作是去年开始的，当时纯粹是兴趣使然。老实说，并不是因为我立意要做环保回收艺术，而是因为它们既不用花钱又随处可得。我的初衷是用饮料瓶诠释“波普文化”。现在的年轻人正在或即将成为文化的制造者和消费者，饮料瓶成为一种完美的比喻载体。作为北京加拿大国际学校的中高年级艺术老师，波普和流行文化是我的一个阐释要点。

I learned of Greening the Beige last year from a colleague that was involved . I was asked if I was interested in contributing some of my work to their fundraiser.

Last year’s pop-bottle based work taught me to put earth as a perfunctory concern in how I think about art making. Further, that working with my students presented an opportunity that we could explore environmental and cultural issues together.

我是去年从一个同事那里了解到“点废成绿”组织的。同事参与了它的活动，问到我是否有兴趣捐献一些作品用于募捐。去年的创作就是以饮料瓶为原材料，这使得我在对艺术创作的思考中有了一份对地球肤浅的感悟。并且，和学生们一起工作让我们有机会共同探索这个课题。

The Pop Bottle Project showed at Yugong Yishan and CISB students were noted as complete collaborators of the project, as it was their consumption of pop that helped make the work.

饮料瓶项目曾经在“点废成绿”在愚公移山举办的募捐活动中做过展示，并注明北京加拿大国际学校的学生们是项目的全程协作者，因为作品所用的饮料瓶是他们用下来的。

The making of this year’s Pop Bottle Car is a work that is in constant progress by students of CISB .

Through their everyday consumption of pop drinks this time, too, but the difference being that the students are collecting, cleaning and designing most everything: all classrooms of the school bring their bottles every morning to the art room.

During lunches detention-recipients (voluntarily) disinfect the pop-bottles, my art students (grade 9 predominantly) form the plastic into car parts by also using bamboo for the architecture.

They will be continuing to do so throughout the 2009/10 year and at year-end, the bottles will be given to someone that can use them for income completing the project.

今年的饮料瓶汽车是一个由北京加拿大国际学校的学生们逐步完成的作品，原材料仍然来自于他们每天都在消费的瓶装饮料。所不同的是，这次的饮料瓶收集、清洁和设计工作几乎全部由学生自己完成：全校各个班的同学们每天上午都往艺术教室里交瓶子。午餐间隙，义务值守生负责给瓶子消毒，艺术课的学生们（主要是9年级学生）把它们做成汽车的各个部件，结构部分要用到一些竹子。他们将坚持把这件事情从2009年一直做到2010年。到2010年底，把这些瓶子卖掉换来收入，项目才算结束。

The students were made aware of specific concepts:

- Pop-art is about popular culture

- Plastics are made by low-grade crude oil, oil not entirely different than what gasoline is made from, thus they both produce green house gas emissions

-Recycling bottles is an artistic form of an advertisement for recycling

- Pop bottles are worth money

学生们可以从项目中得到这样一些具体概念：

－波普艺术是关于流行文化的；

－塑料是由低等原油制成，这种油与汽油提取原料并无本质不同，都能排放温室气体；

－瓶子再循环是在用艺术形式为环保回收做广告；

－饮料瓶是可以卖钱的。

By Doug Lewis. Chinese Translation by Juliet.