Przedmiot: Inspiracje

To encourage creativity, Mr Gove, you must first understand what it is

During a recent appearance on BBC’s Question Time, Michael Gove, the secretary of state for education, extolled the importance of encouraging creativity in schools. He’s right. Creativity is essential to the success and fulfilment of young people, to the vitality of our communities and to the long-term health of the economy.

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How your “working memory” makes sense of the world

“Life comes at us very quickly, and what we need to do is take that amorphous flow of experience and somehow extract meaning from it.” In this funny, enlightening talk, educational psychologist Peter Doolittle details the importance — and limitations — of your “working memory,” that part of the brain that allows us to make […]

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Artist Creates Intricate Mud Paintings On School Walls To Bring Art Into Villager Children’s Lives

Beautiful mud paintings depicting a universe filled with plants, animals and people covered the walls of a classroom at a school in Sujata Village, India. Japanese artist Yusuke Asai painted this work of art in the Niranjana School in order to raise awareness of how the children and villagers of Bihar live.

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Sphere-Based Science: Build Your Own Geodesic Dome

An engineering endeavor from Science Buddies Key concepts Architecture Geometric shapes Engineering Physics Introduction Have you ever seen a geodesic dome? Geodesic domes are spherelike structures made up of interconnected triangles. A famous geodesic dome is Walt Disney World’s Spaceship Earth at Epcot, but geodesic domes are also commonly found as climbing domes at playgrounds.

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Action Painting Wagon

The Action Painting Wagon brings joy to experimental painting sessions with children by combining painting with music. The paper is placed on top of a speaker, which is placed in the center of the tabletop. Different musical experiments can be carried out, which will cause the painting to vibrate accordingly to the intensity of the […]

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Die Baupiloten – The kids are alright

Founded in 2003 by Susanne Hofmann, Baupiloten is a Berlin-based architecture collective that has a unique approach to working with architecture students, giving them the opportunity to apply their creative energy to real life practical experiences. The award-winning studio specialises in realising innovative social design projects such as schools and kindergartens.

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Puckelball Malmö

Short movie commissioned by the City of Malmö showing the unique Puckelball playground in Kroksbäcks Park in Malmö Sweden. The playground was nominated in the competition Making Space 2010 that gives prizes to the best architectural and designed spaces for children. The Puckelball playground is made by the swedish artist Johan Ferner Ström.

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