plaster reinforcement to "mini lockers"

Jasmine visited us again at the beginning of February to show students how to reinforce our "mini locker" molds.  She began the demo by having students place pins along the back and into the rubber casting they had created already. She then applied some packing tape to create a barrier between plaster pieces.  This will allow for two halves ensuring support but ease of release after the concrete sets.  Students learned to mix plaster appropriately and apply it when it was ready to one side.  While we waited for the first side to set, Jasmine showed the student the designs that our landscape company, SKALA had put together for us. We then discussed how the design would work with what we had planned and narrowed down our original sketches to focus on seating and student life as the main aspects for design inspiration.  This was a critical juncture as SKALA's design included seating and students might have easily considered the locker cement molds as stand alone art pieces rather than functional additions to the space.  It seemed unanimous that students wanted something they could use as seating in particular within the design.  Jasmine suggested "bench tops"that we could create out of concrete using the locker form and using the everyday objects we had practiced casting.  This concrete could be cast in any variety of colours and therefore stand out against the comparatively plain rectangular seating forms that SKALA had suggested as part of their beautiful designs.  This was an exciting and interesting way to mimic the final process of casting.