Visual Thinking

& Tinkering

Tuesday September 8th

(Asynchronous, 12-2pm)

Today's Agenda:

Warm-up & share
Further play with paper
Archive - help organize/maintain
Further research - Watch the TED talk or listen to the podcast

Today's Goals:

I can engage in creative play with limited materials.

I can collaborate with my cohort to maintain our archive.

I can engage in further research about the role of play in artmaking.

Dear explorers,

Today we will NOT meet together on Zoom as a whole group. We will do so tomorrow night. I invite you to work independently today and to follow the instructions below. If you have any questions, I am available to you-- feel free to call, text, to email me. We can also arrange a Zoom meeting if that would be helpful. Before you begin...

Please put on your LAB COAT!

Please invite play & experimentation into your heart. Let donning this lab coat be a ritual that summons your inner child and creative spirit.

Most of all, have fun!

Sincerely, Erin

"The moment of change is the only poem" - Adrienne Rich

Warm-up

Elegant Problem: Grab a piece of paper.

Change it.

Use no tools.

Spend no more than 10 minutes with this.

When the ten minutes is up, please document your altered paper and upload it to our Padlet (click here) under the "9/8 - Warmup" column

What material do you wish you had access to while you were working? Write that down in your field journal.

Making

Further play with paper

Instructions

Spend about 30-45 minutes on this exercise.

Use two different kinds of plain paper.
Transform and combine the paper. The end result must be self-supporting (not on the wall or hanging). Document the process as you work.
You may use the tool that you identified above during the warmup. You may use ONLY that tool, no others.

Share the results HERE (to our Padlet) under "9/8 - Making (Further play with paper)

A bit of Archive work

Please take a moment to watch this screencastify video that I have created for you and please take 5 to 10 minutes to update/maintain our class archive.

Make sure that your:

-Non-traditional material resource is placed under Resources on the Nontraditional Materials page

-Work from last week (what you made, the materials you used & your partner's writing that inspired it) get uploaded under "prototypes"

-Artist exemplar gets listed under "Artists"

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Further research:

Before tomorrow's class, please

Listen to this podcast: https://onbeing.org/programs/stuart-brown-play-spirit-and-character/

The decline of play | Peter Gray | TEDxNavesink https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg-GEzM7iTk

Summarizing Checklist

By our seminar tomorrow night, please make sure to:

Warm-up: spend no more than 10 minutes & share the results of your play to our Padlet
Further play with paper (spend 30-45 minutes, document your experiments and share to Padlet)
Archive (please take a moment to watch the video & please help to organize and maintain our archive by uploading your work from last week to our Google Site from the Google Drive folder I shared with you)
Further research - Watch the TED talk or listen to the podcast. Take note of your responses/reactions/takeaways.

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