Stone Soup is an old folk tale that illustrates the benefits of collaboration. Essentially, a village turns a situation of food scarcity into a festival of delicious soup by working together and putting their own contributions into the simmering pot. In our Design 001 class activity, Stone Soup, we learned the importance of working together and throwing our ideas into "the pot" to create something bigger and better than what could have been achieved on our own with simply using our own materials.
In my group, we had an array of materials: art supplies, an art smock, a board game, a Frisbee, bottles, boxes and more. By looking at the pile of items we brought, it would be impossible to tell what would be created. Though, our design was not simply aesthetic, we created an idea, a story, to go along with it. We created a dream world, complete with multiple characters and a puppeteer.
Our final product was significantly beyond what I had anticipated. Originally, I went into Stone Soup expecting a small, mish-mashed "thing." I suppose that is what Stone Soup was about; creating something big from many small ideas. We started with a few thoughts, and the next thing we new, the rest came naturally. Stone Soup was just like a snowball of ideas.
Here is our final product, an installation piece that illustrates a dream from our smaller character. Although, we all had a number of ideas of what the story should be. But I suppose that's part of art; it is subjective to the viewer, as well as the creator (or creators).
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