Citizen Art -- Collective Mathematical Art to Raise the Public Awareness of Mathematics
Anna M. Hartkopf

Proceedings of Bridges 2019: Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Education, Culture
Pages 355–358
Short Papers

Abstract

The project Polytopia – Adopt a Polyhedron aims to raise awareness of mathematics in the general public. The participants are invited to adopt a polyhedron, give it a name and build a model. The individual polyhedra are displayed on a website, where we provide a crafting sheet for each polyhedron. Furthermore, we encourage the participants to build a creative model of the polyhedron from materials of their choice. Pictures of these models are uploaded to the website and thus a gallery of polyhedra emerges. In this paper we show results of the project. More than 1400 polyhedra have been adopted and 230 models were built.

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