Minds and Materials:
Dr. Nerida Wayland Melissa Cowgill
Lindfield Learning Village
Making in Senior English
Making a School
Lindfield Learning Village - established 2019 as a K-12 public school on the site of the former University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
Ku-ring-gai campus
Lindfield Learning Village
Year of the Maker
Term 1 - Loose Parts, Slow Looking, Rituals and Routines and Maker Mindset
Term 2 - Big Loose Parts, d.school design thinking w/ LLV maker mindset, deconstruction and/to (re)construction to develop a sensitivity to design
Term 3 - Digital Making and Fabrication (Robotics, Coding, Software - Adobe Suite, 3D Drawing Tools - Sketch Up and TinkerCad) and (Laser Cutting, Cricut)
Term 4 - Agency, Maker Identity, Maker Faire
Embedding Making at a Faculty Level
Experiential Making
The Uncanny
Uncanny Creations
Illustrations of Practice
Playing with Philosophy
Collaborative Inquiry
Material Deliberation
Exile: Spaces in The Tempest
Place-Based Making
Thematic Landscapes
T.S. Eliot Synecdoche Sculptures
Collaborative Composition
Collaborative Meaning-Making
Thought Experimentation
Embodied Interpretation
Multimodal Representation
Uncanny Creations
Layered Materials
Mixed Media Making
Collaborative Making
Metacognitive Reflection
Playing with Philosophy
Ethical Play
Constructive Choices
Collaborative Inquiry
Material Deliberation
Exile: Spaces in The Tempest
Mindful Observation
Natural Making
Material Inquiry
Spatial Construction
T.S. Eliot Synecdoche Sculptures
Collective Synecdoche
Embodied Persona
Collaborative Annotations
Multimodal Composition
Student Feedback
“I loved them [Minds and Materials lessons] a lot.”
“The most engaging, the most exciting, but still super informative.”
“Fantastic every time - best lessons.”
“These I find very helpful because stuff gets into my brain better.”
“Good as long as there is no interpretive dance.”
Student Results
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre.ˮ
— W. B. Yeats, The Second Coming 1919
Thank you!