How can art schools get to freshman prmoptly and early in shifting their current view of the world from a head-brain linear process, to a systematic, non-linear process?
Assignment: Create an artist-book based on a culture.
Last week, students in my Freshman Seminar course at Bunker Hill Community College had an opportunity to work with book-arts expert Kate Castelli. Kate showed the students how to create some simple folded book structures that can be built and modified into their own [...]
These two audio/slideshow recordings are from a critique session on 3/24/2011. Students are just beyond the midpoint in their capstone projects, and have diagrammed some user-flow and design mockups. The comments and critiques were quite interesting, and I believe, helpful.
Continuing a discussion from my Communication Theory class, on 2/8/11
Imagine your driving from Boston to California and your GPS dies. You have no map and you are in a dead cell area. Now what would you do? I’d call this a great time to be creative and improvise. While it can be uneasy [...]
Freshman Seminar is a foundation art course course, team taught with senior professor Courtney McGlynn, at Bunker Hill Community College. This module has students take a current event article from the news, and create an abstract collage. Also part of the module is a field trip to the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (See [...]
Yesterday, we brought our Freshman Seminar students to the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. Students are working on the second module of the course where they discover and learn the process of conceptualization. Their assignment entails taking a current event article and creating a collage, based on interpretation.
The key to this assignment [...]
Here are some snapshots of students in my iPhone and Freshman Seminar courses at Bunker Hill Community College. Creative brainstorming, mind mapping and conceptualization; hammering out ideas!
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011 -
Today I guest lectured at Berklee College of Music in Boston. The course is called Stage Performance, and is taught by ledgendary musician Livingston Taylor.
The students in this course are learning, what I consider, the most complex part of being a musician. To me, performing live has all [...]
Februrary 7th, 2011 – Marc O’Brien of Project M talks with the students of the Introduction to Web Design course about mobilizing your ideas. Ben and I were thrilled Mark could make it! After this talk, a group workshop commenced and we had some wild results. – http://www.marcobrien.net
“Project M is an [...]
Interactive Projects – January 26th, 2011
This clip is from a facilitated discussion dealing with developing goals and objectives as they pertain to interaction design. Students in this session collaborated on determining what objectives would be needed to developed to attain a common goal of “Graduating from the AIB design program”
Once a consensus [...]
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