Your+Symbols

= The New Iconography =

Essential Question: What is the relationship between humans and their environment?
Trees (40+) Sidewalks (23) Schools (22) Parks (17) Sports/Recreation (17) Uptown (17) Houses (16) Fields/Courts (14) Roads (14) BrickStreets (13) Churches (13) Bird Park (12) Brown Street Signs (11) Landscaping/Flowers (11) Mt Lebanon Library (11) Wildfire (11) High School Stadium (10) Stores/Businesses (10) Woods/Trails (9) Cars (8) Mt Lebanon Golf Course (8) Mt Lebanon Pool (8) Crosswalk/Intersections (7) Playgrounds (7) Weather/Sky (7) Garbage/Trash/Recycling (5) Gas Stations (5) Mt Lebanon Cemetary (5) The T/Trolley (5) Hills (4) Walking District (4) Water (4) Farmers' Market (3) Galleria (3) Mt Lebanon Sign (3) Municipal Building (3) Power Lines/Street Lights (3) Public Spaces (3) Washington Road (3) "The Fountain" (2) Memorials/Monuments (2) Welcome to Mt Lebanon Mural (2)

As a group of young Americans, you seemed to describe modern America as in a time of transition and consumption.

Phase/Stage of Modern America = "**Consumption"**

As a group of young Americans, you looked for elements in your landscape that represent your community and listed your ideas on a wiki page. From this master list, I asked you to vote for the main elements that represent the relationship between humans and their environment in this phase of "consumption".

Your paintings should incorporate **at least 3 of elements** into your composition:


 * Malls or signs of business
 * Uptown/Washington Road
 * Intersections/Traffic lights
 * Cars
 * Trolleys/Tracks
 * Telephone poles
 * People/Families
 * Schools


 * Step 1:** **Here are some of the ideas being discussed as symbols of our modern landscape:**


 * trolley tracks
 * grass
 * intersections/traffic lights
 * "Bird's eye" views of Mount Lebanon streets ("loops")
 * telephone poles
 * trees
 * "The fountain"
 * Washington Road
 * houses
 * cars
 * fire hydrants
 * sidewalks
 * schools
 * baseball fields
 * flowers
 * shrubs/landscaping
 * "uptown"
 * Malls
 * religious buildings
 * Business signs
 * clouds
 * Galleria
 * people?
 * Football Field
 * Street Signs
 * Detailed Architecture
 * The "Welcome to Mt.Lebanon" sign
 * Families
 * Basketball courts


 * Stage 2: What stage is America in today and what modern symbols reflect this in our landscape?**
 * Change 12
 * Technological
 * Innovation
 * Scientific
 * Renewal/Regroup
 * Consumers
 * Obesity
 * Materialistic (more focused on wants than needs)
 * Economic 2
 * "Fast" Food
 * Green 2
 * Digital
 * Information/Communication/Social Networking
 * Troubled/"Nosey"

Step 3: What 10 symbols from our wiki list best represent the stage/phase of modern America?

 * malls 11
 * telephone poles 10
 * insections/traffic lights 9
 * cars 9
 * washington road/Uptown 8
 * people/families 8
 * trolleys/tracks 8
 * business signs 6
 * schools 6
 * architecture 5
 * sidewalks 5
 * houses 4
 * street signs 3
 * trees 3
 * religious buildings 3
 * the fountain 2
 * Birds' eye view 2
 * grass 2
 * flowers 2
 * shrubs/landscaping 2
 * "welcome to Mt. Lebanon" sign 2
 * Sports
 * baseball fields 2
 * football fields
 * basketball courts 2
 * clouds


 * Step 4:** Is it acceptable to say that you describe the stage/phase of modern America with the word " **consumption** "? We consume information, ideas, energy, and goods. Even the fact that the word "green" came up in groups fits that idea as it seems some are questioning that consumption.

Based upon your tallies, here is your new iconography:
 * 1) Malls (and business signs)
 * 2) Uptown/Washington Road
 * 3) Insections/Traffic lights
 * 4) Cars
 * 5) Trolleys/Tracks
 * 6) Telephone poles
 * 7) People/Families

How do each of these items represent "consumption"? How do each of these illustrate the relationship between humans and their environment?


 * Definitions of "consumption":**
 * to do away with completely
 * use by (or exposure to) a particular group or audience
 * the utilization of economic goods in the satisfaction of wants or in the process of production resulting chiefly in their destruction, deterioration, or transformation
 * to spend wastefully **:** [|squander]
 * to eat or drink especially in great quantity
 * to enjoy avidly **:** [|devour]
 * to engage fully **:** [|engross]
 * to utilize as a customer
 * to waste or burn away
 * to utilize economic goods