From Text Book to Work BookRuth Meredith

M. C. EscherDrawing Hands

1948Lithograph

Students are on information overload.

Students need to learn to integrate knowledge with experience.

Three Basic Elements of Project Design:

Integrate course concepts/contentWith activity

Set up collaboration between students and/or groups

Require reflection on the results of the process

Learning

The Creative Process is a useful way to apply knowledge in experience.

Making Trash Fairies: The Artist as Collector

Collect and Sort Trash Chose and Assemble selected bits and pieces

Result: A Trash Fairy

This project illustrates principles from course readings.

Ruth MeredithAfterthought

2009

Problem solving is useful way to apply knowledge in experience.

Tangram Instructions AssignmentFollow instructions to create the Tangram pieces.

Construct a Tangram figure.

Write a set of instructions for making that figure.

Test your instructions by letting someone else follow them.

Revise instructions using feedback

Collaboration is an effective way to transform experience into knowledge.

Exquisite Corpse Book Project

Collaborative artist book based on a Surrealist game.

This project illustrates the concept of SEQUENCE a principle of design.

Instructions

I hear and I forgetI see and I rememberI do and I understand.

Chinese Proverb