Dream Worlds: Ecosystem of Exploration

This project will develop novel STEAM education kits and curriculum for classroom and after-school program use, based on longstanding LASG experience and practice with ‘metastable structures’—those which balance stability and adaptability. Metastability provides a potently different way of thinking about our constructions and a more symbiotic relationship with our environment. Participants will use these kits in a ‘learning-by-making’ model, to construct narrative and expressive creative works. Their creations will display expressive qualities, enabling impactful creative exploration for student and youth participants and raising important questions and realizations about our relationship with our environments. It is our hope that these experiences generate curiosity and a sense of agency in youth, who increasingly feel powerless in a rapidly changing world. The partner organization has a history of developing similar curriculum and kits, and this expands their catalog.

Faculty Supervisor:

Rob Gorbet;Philip Beesley

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Partner:

Riverside Architectural Press

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

University of Waterloo

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