From On the River
We are beginning our work with some assignments to make, gather, or do things along the river. Please follow our progress and join in with your own results. Open Studio Assignments is inspired by the work of Mark Dion and the Learning to Love You More Project.
- Bare Feet by the River
- Body and Space
- Conversations and Stories
- Go Sketch
- History Bits
- Houseboats on the River
- Hypothetical Flood
- Inside-Out Outside-In Studio Projects
- Monsters of the Grand River
- Pathways to a Picnic
- Remembering the Raft Races
- River Findings
- River Inlets and Outlets
- River Water Samples
- Show Your Fish
- Sites for Discussion
- Songs About the Grand River
- Sounds along the River
- Spatially Political
- What Would Re-Rapids Look Like?
Resources
Following are inspiring uses of open pedagogical structures in art projects. Such projects are based on a Constructivist approach to learning in which the learner is respected as a knowledge producer and equal. Paolo Frier's work with Liberation Pedagogy is also representative of the political significance of this way of structuring learning and culture.
- http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com/
- Mark Dion's Tate Thames Dig a river project
- [Learning to Love you More] An example of an open pedagogical studio model
- http://www.stockyardinstitute.org/
- http://www.stockyardinstitute.org/pedagogical_factory.html
- http://www.stockyardinstitute.org/PedagogicalFactory.html
- [Center for Urban Pedagogy]
Ideas for Open Studio Assignments
- Poems On/About the River
- What would it look like if it Flooded now?
- What would Re-Rapids look like?
- Vessels on the River
- Skateboarding Sites
- Street Sketches - Drawings
- Photos of the River
- Impossible Proposed Structures
- Possible Proposed Structures
- Interviewing Bridge Walkers
- River Markets
- Floating Structures from found natural materials
- Sites for Discussions
- Fictitious sites along the River
- Fictitious Houseboats
- Sites for Picnics
- Drawings of the River
- Animals
- Plants
- Bugs (Insects)
- Rocks
- Vistas
- Music
