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Kinetic Sculpture Concept | Project Highlights: D.C. Haley Elementary School
The Dennis C. Haley Elementary School in Roslindale is a learning community serving approximately 300 students, grades K–5. Haley Elementary was the first Boston Public School to be designated a "Peace Zone" and all students and faculty honor the "Pledge for Peace" and the components that make it work. Haley also partners with the Boston Nature Center, a Mass Audubon program, and through collaborations with the school’s teachers, the students are afforded an environmental and community based learning initiative. Haley Elementary School contacted Community Design Resource Center of Boston to help expand its many outdoor spaces that are presently being used as outdoor classrooms. The school also expressed a desire to create a community garden to increase community participation with the school. The project involved two phases; the first was an initial cleaning, painting, and planting session in collaboration with volunteers from City Year Serva-a-Thon that occurred in early June 2008. The second phase took volunteer landscape architect Paul Simon and designer Diane Akula through a design engagement process interviewing teachers, students, administrators, and community members that resulted in drawings and schematics of community gardens, a wetland resource area, rainwater harvesting, bird and butterfly gardens, a kinetic sculpture and an interactive sundial.
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