Canstruction Art, design, architecture, engineering, construction, philanthropy.

It’s a great idea and a wonderful project.

We made our first foray for Fall Festival Reimagined 2011 with this fireplace. Made out of donated food cans it was built by a group consisting parents, faculty and students. It was dismantled last month and the food donated to the Queens Galley In Kingston.

But it looks like the bar in can construction was set long ago.

This tower of baked bean tins was at the Ideal Home Exhibition, London in March 1936.

Canstruction old style. Baked beans display at the London Ideal Home Exhibition March 1936


 

Josie Holford

View Comments

  • Canstruction sounds like a great way for team work and collaboration. It's probably a good way for students, parents and faculty to share ideas and have fun. The picture of the fireplace made out of cans is so cool. I really liked how they put fire in to.

Recent Posts

The Affair of the Chocolate Teapot

Midge Hazelbrow, the indomitable co-head of Wayward St. Etheldreda's Academy, took herself for a brisk…

1 month ago

Best Practices, Reading Wars, and Eruption at Wayward

Before the eruption, it was a typical senior leadership meeting at Wayward. Head of School,…

2 months ago

Words Matter

When I taught fourth and fifth grade at a school that didn't assign grades, the…

2 months ago

The Culinary Capers and Comic Catastrophes of Gerald Samper

It was the Gert Loveday review of Rancid Pansies (it’s an anagram) that set me…

2 months ago

Working and Not Working

A post on LinkedIn caught my attention this week.  It's had over 11,000 views so…

3 months ago

Gall, Nerve, Courage, and The Party of Women

 Women's rights campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen of Let Women Speak had a big announcement last week.…

3 months ago