This is the start of a sequence of videos to be used as a training and information tool in the management and delivery of Akane Takayama's 2010 sculpture "DOG". These videos are to help the artists who will assist Takayama in the construction of 1000 DOG sculptures for installatioin in London Parks in 2010.

Part of this installation will be used within the Create Festival and the whole project contains a social inclusion project involving schools across London.

Using this series of videos not only will the artists be able to see how the construction works but the teachers in the schools will be able to show their pupils, using digital projection from their computer onto whiteboards, how the sculpture is conceived. This will allow teachers to build lessons around the idea of model construction before the artist, Akane Takayama, delivers workshops on model making to the pupils in the schools which have signed up to the project.

The sculpture project works in two distinct areas. Primarily it is an art installation and part of the artist's existing catalogue of work created over the past 25 years in London. This sculpture works on the ideas of disposibility, relationships in space, relationships in scale, juxtaposition and cultural ownership, all of which are continuing themes in this artist's history.

Go here to  see the full description of the Artistic Remit.

The social inclusion element is actually a separate schedule in which the artist aims to demonstrate to children at primary school level the possibilities of model making from found items and the process of public art sculpture from conception to delivery. The aim of this aspect of the work is to enable young children to see their own creative powers as potentially being represented in public space and thereby claiming ownership of that space.

Go here to see a full description of the Social Inclusion Remit

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