This document discusses RDT's Green Map Project, which aims to promote environmental literacy and engagement with local communities through mapping and the arts. The project involves creating maps of neighborhoods using standardized icons to identify sustainable resources like parks, public transit, and recycling centers. Students participate in map-making through residencies that combine arts education, movement classes, and learning about the local natural and built environment. Their maps and a performance celebrating the local area are meant to reinforce sustainable living and discovery of place. The goal is to activate learning about sustainability through artistic expression of the resources in a community.

2. Recycling

5. NEED
Environmental Literacy
Caring for the earth
Designing our neighborhoods
Engaging students in the life of their
communities.

7. RDT’S
Green Map Project

10. RDT’S
‘GREEN MAP’
‘LOCAL’ ECONOMY
CHOICES: Buy, Do,
Grow, Make
COMMUNITY-CENTERED
Planning, Design, Land Use
Choices
MOVEMENT, Arts &
Expression-Reinforced
Learning & Living
‘PLACE-BASED’
Discovery, Learning &
Education
SUSTAINABLE CHOICES
for Ecological Living,
Working, Investing,
Governing
RDT’s Green Map Project
Mirror to Sustainable ‘Place’

12. Green Maps from around the
world
Uganda
Liverpool
San Francisco

13. Green Maps use Internationally
Standardized Icons: Sustainable Living
Airport
Farmers Local Market Recycling
Green Building Air Pollution
Light Rail Bus
Rapid Transit

14. Green Maps use Internationally
Standardized Icons: Nature
Bird Wildlife
Watching
Eco-Nature Walk
Migration Zone
Wetlands
Natural Corridor
Greenway Park / Recreation Area

15. Green Maps use Internationally
Standardized Icons: Culture & Society
Environmental
Education Public Library Landfill
Cultural Performance Cemetery Solid Waste Transfer Station

16. Wetlands

17. 1. School Residencies
2. Creation of a Map
3. Performances

18. MAPPING PROCESS
• Learn about maps
• Look at your neighborhood
• Collect information
• Study the Icons
• Make a digital or hand drawn map
• Place icons on your map

19. I-80
I-15
I-215
I-80
Bangerter
Highway
City
Creek

21. Arts & Environmental Education
Residency
• Lecture Demonstrations
• Creative Movement Classes
• Resource Information:
Natural Environment, Green Building,
Renewable Energy, Land-use, Geography,
History, Local Business, Conservation
SUSTAINABILITY

22. Activating Learning and Discovery
through
Artistic Expression
Photography
Video
Poetry
Essays
Interviews
Visual Arts
Dance

24. Performance
Celebration
of Place

26. Dancing the Green Map
Exploring the icons
Learning through Movement
Create Choreography

28. PROCESS
SEE
EXPLORE
ANALYZE
CREATE
EXPRESS

29. SUSTAINABILITY
Living, working, eating and
playing in ways that will not
jeopardize the health of the
planet or the quality of life for
all cultures, species or
generations to come

30. NW Salt Lake City RDT ‘Green Map’

31. RDT’S
Green Map Project

32. VIDEO