Curiosity

How do we harness the power of wonder?

Field Trip: January 7th, 2021 10-11:30 PT

Workshop: January 20th, 2021 12-1:00 PT

You need only spend a few minutes with a young child to know that we are born with curiosity in spades. But how do we continue to honor and  stoke it? How do we create learning environments that fortify the orientations and skills needed to see wonder and possibility everywhere one looks? 

Access to this month’s experiences start at $25.

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Field trip guests

  • Design 39

    Design39 is a K-8 school in San Diego, CA. It is designed with the individual learner in mind and built to foster collaboration, creative confidence, and inquiry, so that students develop the courage and growth mindset necessary to change the world.

  • The Heartwood School

    Heartwood Agile Learning Center is a K-12 independent school in Georgia. They aim to artfully enable students to pursue their curiosities and become leaders of their own learning.

  • Steve and Kates

    Steve & Kate’s believes in trusting kids with the freedom to make their own choices. Driven by their natural curiosity, children experiment with their own decision-making and develop the confidence to try, fail, and learn on their own.

  • YouMedia

    YOUmedia operates as a drop-in, out-of-school learning environment for Chicago teens to develop skills in digital media, STEM, and making. They encourage participants to create rather than consume and to learn based on self-interest.

WORKSHOP (1.20.22)

What does it feel like to unlock a totally new part of your brain? How can we design experiences that offer that opportunity to our young people? 

In this workshop, we will get a sneak peek into the mind of a brilliant – and curious – artist and teacher, Kelli Anderson. We’ll learn about satellites, art and paper engineering as she teaches us how to fold flat sheets of paper into origami tessellations. Each participant will receive a kit of these materials to use during the workshop.

This virtual workshop will be led by Kelli Anderson, "an artist, designer, and tinkerer who pushes the limits of ordinary materials and formats by seeking out hidden possibility in the physical and digital world. From wedding invitations to Utopian newspapers, she re-designs commonplace objects to go beyond their ordinary functions and create surprising experiences." (Learn more about Kelli at TED.com or kellianderson.com.)

Participants will receive eight fold-it-yourself RISO-printed posters.

“This Book is a Planetarium,” by Kelli Anderson

“This Book is a Camera,” by Kelli Anderson