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Essential Questions:
Essential Questions:
What can materials teach us?
What can we learn from play?
Today's Agenda:
Today's Agenda:
Checking in - Midterm self-reflection
Previsualization
90 minutes of making
Reflecting
Takeaways
Looking ahead
Outcomes:
Outcomes:
I can reflect upon my progress so far in the course.
I can live strategies that prompt idea generation and support creative thinking.
I can engage in exploratory play with materials.
I can reflect upon my discoveries, epiphanies and enduring understandings arrived at through embodying childlike ways of being.
Checking in: We're halfway through our journey!
Checking in: We're halfway through our journey!
please complete this self-reflection about your growth and learning throughout the course thus far
please complete this self-reflection about your growth and learning throughout the course thus far
That business aside... tonight is all about playful, joyful making.
That business aside... tonight is all about playful, joyful making.
I invite you to embody childlike ways of being, seeing and exploring.
I invite you to embody childlike ways of being, seeing and exploring.
Why are we doing this?
A previsualization
I invite you to close your eyes (or turn off your camera, whatever is most comfortable for you)
I want you to think of a place that you feel very safe and comfortable.
Call this place into your mind's eye.
Where are you within the space?
What do your surroundings look like?
What is the atmosphere like? what about the weather?
Do you associate any colors with this place?
Are you alone, or are others with you?
When you listen, what can you hear?
If you were to reach out, what would you touch?
Reach out and touch it, how does it feel?
What does this place smell like?
Do you have any memories associated with this space?
Call those memories to mind now. Spend a moment with them.
Spend a moment feeling the way that the space makes you feel-- safe, comfortable.
When you are ready to open your eyes/turn on your camera please do. Spend a few minutes writing about your space and how you envisioned it.
Prompts to guide making
Prompts to guide making
You will be making many things. Don’t think of any of your work as too precious.
You will be making many things. Don’t think of any of your work as too precious.
STRATEGY: MATERIALS EXPLORATION
STRATEGY: MATERIALS EXPLORATION
You choose which ones, and if you end up with less than four-- don’t stress!
You choose which ones, and if you end up with less than four-- don’t stress!
Just don’t spend the whole time on 1 prompt. The idea is to engage in MATERIALS EXPLORATION.
Just don’t spend the whole time on 1 prompt. The idea is to engage in MATERIALS EXPLORATION.
PLAY. DISCOVER. BE A KID AGAIN.
PLAY. DISCOVER. BE A KID AGAIN.
processing the experience:
processing the experience:
stream-of-consciousness reflection
stream-of-consciousness reflection
in Padlet
1. What did it feel like while you were making tonight?
2. What did you discover? List as many discoveries as you can
3. What surprised you? What “AHA! Moments” did you encounter?
4. In what ways did you feel childlike?
5. In what ways does being an adult artist hold you back?
7 pm
chat waterfall
chat waterfall
in a word or phrase: what is a takeaway from tonight's making?
in a word or phrase: what is a takeaway from tonight's making?
For next week:
For next week:
-Read & Take Notes
-Read & Take Notes
You choose: A chapter from the Holistic Monograph :
Mary Wolf - Creating Safe Art Environments for Troubled Youth
or
Stacey McKenna (Salazar) - Changing the Mood: How to add personal meaning to an ordinary design problem
-Do/Create
-Do/Create
Sort your Strategies Archive (see instructions below)
Add at least 2 strategies from this evening's class and the purpose they served
OPTIONAL: Fill out this anonymous midterm feedback tool to give feedback on the class so far!
-Looking/planning ahead:
-Looking/planning ahead:
Bring your "makerspace" and your elegant problem to class next week, we will be prototyping!
Summary of what must be turned in to your Strategies Folder (shared with me):
Sort/Organize/Refine your Strategies Archive according to the above categories
Add 2 new strategies to your Archive from our class
OPTIONAL: anonymous midterm feedback tool
Important, but not collected:
Read from the Holistic Monograph (Wolf or McKenna)
Come prepared to prototype!
How to re-organize your strategies archive:
How to re-organize your strategies archive:
Restructure your strategies archive into the following categories:
Responding to art
Prompting idea generation
Supporting creative thinking
Supporting Engagement with Materials
Building community
Integrating Art, Self, and World
Authentic Assessment
Other (group all remaining strategies here OR feel free to come up with your own sub-categories under this umbrella)
Note: It is absolutely fine to have a heading with no strategies listed underneath at this current moment, but please keep that category present.
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