The road to innovation is paved with failed designs. What follows is — depending on how you want to think about it — either a gallery of technologies we lost or an invitation to consider alternate futures. Some of what might have been is fantastical: a subway powered by air, an engine run off the […]
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Learning Community Ideas 2014
Ideas to Explore: “If you’re not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else’s mind.” Noam Chomsky in “Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?” Ship of Theseus Psychic continuity Simulations of the Retina Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
Drawing needs to be a curriculum essential
Drawing has creative, expressive and educational value; it remains fundamental to translating and analysing the world– Anita Taylor “Drawing remains a central and pivotal activity to the work of many artists and designers – a touchstone and tool of creative exploration that informs visual discovery. It fundamentally enables the visualisation and development of perceptions and ideas. […]
Not STEM, STEAM
“The neurobiologist Antonio Damasio has written about Descartes’ error that, to put it in shorthand, “I think therefore I am.” Damasio instead makes the compelling argument, empirically based in neurology, that feeling and emotions as expressed in art and music play a central role in high-level cognitive reasoning….. much of the focus in education these days […]
Link Between Art, Perception, and the Self
“When you look at a painting and feel that somehow it was made just for a person like you, it might actually be true. New neuroscience research shows that deep feeling of personal resonance from some works of art is linked to your brain’s sense of self.” Neuroaesthetic Research Probes Link Between Art, Perception, and the […]
Open Culture
The British Library Puts 1,000,000 Images into the Public Domain, Making Them Free to Reuse & Remi The best free cultural & educational media on the web The British Library Puts 1,000,000 Images into the Public Domain, Making Them Free to Reuse & Remix
Workshop: Designing Digital Projects for ADV1100
On Wed. January, 23rd I will be facilitating a workshop for all faculty teaching ADV1100: Graphic Design Principles 1. After teaching Web Design for my first six years at City Tech and observing that only a minority of students appeared to have grasped basic design principles and concepts by the time they reached their concentration […]
Fostering Friendships with Collaborative Projects
One of the greatest joys I get from teaching is seeing friendships develop in the classroom. I always ask my students on the first day of class to look around the room and introduce themselves to the person sitting next to them, because “these strangers will someday be your colleagues, partners, bosses, clients.” They always […]
MTA Field Trip
I often bring my ADV1100 Graphic Design Principles classes down the street to the A Station at Jay Street-Borough Hall where artist Ben Snead has a permanent glass mosaic and ceramic tile artwork called Departures and Arrivals. While all students benefit from research in the field, I find that it gives Freshman/foundation students a chance […]
The Big Test
Today I gave the OpenLab discussion feature a run for its money. I held my ADV1100 class online on the OpenLab using the discussion form for one of the critiques of the second class project: Aural Topographies (Pattern Mashups) The students did an excellent job given the challenging discussion interface (we’re working on that) and […]