Fabrication is all about making the world while making ourselves, our quintessential subject maki... more Fabrication is all about making the world while making ourselves, our quintessential subject making.' 1 Meskell (Ed.), Lynn. Archaeologies of Materiality
This project utilises a series of experimental educational courses to explore ways to teach learn... more This project utilises a series of experimental educational courses to explore ways to teach learning about sustainability. In collaboration with 21 students and their two teachers from the teacher education course in Håndværk (craft) and Design at Københavns Professionsskole we investigate the didactic potential that presents itself through situating learning in specifically selected environments and with materials available in situ. By meeting the environments of Hareskoven and Sydhavns Genbrugscenter, we explore contrasts such as nature versus culture, new versus old, and unused versus used. We make use of experiential learning and a phenomenological approach in our project, and we emphasize the role of participants' bodily and sensory experience in learning with materials. Our focus is on the connection between the life cycles of materials and people. Our didactic practice challenges participants to collaboratively create material expressions that process the topic of sustainability. Using the aesthetic learning process and a design intervention, we examine how the practical, aesthetic and linguistic interpretation of materials through composition and narrative can encourage reflection and create synergy between knowledge and cognition. Through discovery, reflection and action we experiment with how to create a deeper understanding of the challenge and responsibility that lies in our common experience of being in the world. Based on practical and theoretical experiences from the project, we have designed a course in learning how to learn about sustainability.
Fabrication is all about making the world while making ourselves, our quintessential subject maki... more Fabrication is all about making the world while making ourselves, our quintessential subject making.' 1 Meskell (Ed.), Lynn. Archaeologies of Materiality
This project utilises a series of experimental educational courses to explore ways to teach learn... more This project utilises a series of experimental educational courses to explore ways to teach learning about sustainability. In collaboration with 21 students and their two teachers from the teacher education course in Håndværk (craft) and Design at Københavns Professionsskole we investigate the didactic potential that presents itself through situating learning in specifically selected environments and with materials available in situ. By meeting the environments of Hareskoven and Sydhavns Genbrugscenter, we explore contrasts such as nature versus culture, new versus old, and unused versus used. We make use of experiential learning and a phenomenological approach in our project, and we emphasize the role of participants' bodily and sensory experience in learning with materials. Our focus is on the connection between the life cycles of materials and people. Our didactic practice challenges participants to collaboratively create material expressions that process the topic of sustainability. Using the aesthetic learning process and a design intervention, we examine how the practical, aesthetic and linguistic interpretation of materials through composition and narrative can encourage reflection and create synergy between knowledge and cognition. Through discovery, reflection and action we experiment with how to create a deeper understanding of the challenge and responsibility that lies in our common experience of being in the world. Based on practical and theoretical experiences from the project, we have designed a course in learning how to learn about sustainability.
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