International Visible Thinking Conference, Miami, FL
The goals for this session are to (a) introduce participants briefly to the Agency by Design initiative, situating the project in the current maker/hacking/DIY movement; (b) introduce participants to the core AbD idea of “sensitivity to design” via hands-on activities, documentation, and thinking routines; (c) explore the thinking and learning possibility space afforded through maker-centered experiences; and, (d) view agency through the lens of maker/making and explore the relationship between having a heightened sensitivity to design and the AbD concept of maker empowerment.
During this workshop researchers from Project Zero’s Agency by Design initiative will lead participants in a series of hands-on activities aimed at cultivating observation skills and encouraging critical analysis of the made dimensions of our world. After exploring the tools and materials of maker-centered learning, participants will then consider how learning environments may best be designed to support building, tinkering, making, and hacking.
When innovation takes place in our deeply connected, interdependent world, it is almost always the result of the collaborative efforts and insights of a variety of individuals. Despite the prominence of socially emergent creativity and innovation throughout business, science, and the arts, many educators and school policy makers still retain traditional, individual-based understandings of creativity. During this interactive lecture, Project Zero researcher Edward Clapp will make the case that educators who subscribe to traditional, individual-based understandings of creativity are focused...
A Roundtable Discussion Series presented by the Sam Francis Foundation and facilitated by Edward Clapp of Harvard Project Zero. The goals for this roundtable session are (a) to engage a diverse group of creative industry and education professionals in conversation around the overall theme of creativity in learning, today and tomorrow by way of three guiding questions: What does creativity look like?Where and how does creativity thrive? and What are the conditions that support creativity...
The Urbano Project, 29 Germania Street, Boston MA (JP)
In this open conversation with leaders in the fields of arts and learning, we will uncover how it is that we learn with and through the arts and identify the ways in which arts learning is being applied to artistic practice and social change. The goal of this panel discussion is to have a robust conversation around contemporary ideas of arts learning.
Key Questions:
How do we learn with and through contemporary art, what does this look like and how is it facilitated?
Harvard Graduate School of Education, Askwith Hall, Cambridge, MA
The Harvard Educational Review and Springboard: The Harvard College Design Club invite you to join us for a film Wednesday, November 12th at 5:00. Maker is a documentary examining the current American "maker movement," fueled by passion, design, and DIY principles. The film will be followed by discussion where experts from the field will engage in a lively conversation about the possibilities and challenges that the...
A Roundtable Discussion Series presented by the Sam Francis Foundation and facilitated by Edward Clapp of Harvard Project Zero. The goals for this roundtable session are (a) to engage a diverse group of creative industry and education professionals in conversation around the overall theme of creativity in learning, today and tomorrow by way of three guiding questions: What does creativity look like?Where and how does creativity thrive? and What are the conditions that support creativity...
A Roundtable Discussion Series presented by the Sam Francis Foundation and facilitated by Edward Clapp of Harvard Project Zero. The goals for this roundtable session are (a) to engage a diverse group of creative industry and education professionals in conversation around the overall theme of creativity in learning, today and tomorrow by way of three guiding questions: What does creativity look like?Where and how does creativity thrive? and What are the conditions that support creativity...
A Roundtable Discussion Series presented by the Sam Francis Foundation and facilitated by Edward Clapp of Harvard Project Zero. The goals for this roundtable session are (a) to engage a diverse group of creative industry and education professionals in conversation around the overall theme of creativity in learning, today and tomorrow by way of three guiding questions:...
Project Zero Perspectives: Making, Thinking, and Understanding, San Francisco, CA
The contemporary maker movement has been described as a return to the DIY (do-it-yourself) movement of the 1960s and 70s. Now, as then, the proposed benefits of engaging children in DIY learning experiences range from heightened expertise in STEM subjects to increased creative capacities for young people. While few makers and educators would argue against the content-area and creativity-based learning outcomes associated with DIY activities, some, such as Make magazine columnist David Lang, have suggested that the “DIY” moniker is in itself a misnomer for maker-centered...
