.: SMALLab - the Situated Multimedia Arts Learning Lab :. SMALLab is a mediated learning space that serves curriculum and experimental design composition at three locations: Coronado High School in Scottsdale, AZ; Phoenix Country Day School in Phoenix; and Quest-to-learn middle school at Parsons New School of Design in NYC. See more on SMALLab: "A SMALL way to keep up with technology", "Gaming SMALLab", "SMALLab at Parsons New School for Design"
Click here to watch a video overview on SMALLab.
I collaborate with educators, researchers, media designers, and high school teachers to design and develop learning scenarios for students at Coronado High School in Scottsdale, Arizona. A few of these are listed below with a synopsis of the work and my role in our partnership.
.: Creativity Interventions and the Sensor Squid :. In 2007, I worked with artist Becky Stern (makezine/craftzine.com associate editor) and colleagues in the Reflective Living Group to develop media experienes to promote creativity in the workplace. This led to the co-creation of a shared tangible interface (the Sensor Squid) and a brainstorming activity that pulled community media (such as text, images, videos, sounds) into a passive browsing tool also known as the "media jam". This tool allowed multiple participants to draw and audition media they had created and make seemingly hypothetical and sometimes arbitrary relationships between media artifacts in order to draw out their personality and their ability to perform creatively and spontaneously through play. The goal of this activity was to encourage new connections between media and work by activiting playful and pleasurable modes of thinking. See a video about how the relation game works by clicking here.