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How to fall down a rabbit hole
Syllabus / November 2023
A syllabus of strategies for submitting to curiosity, allowing the sticky thoughts that get caught in our brains to lead us down new paths. By using intuition as our guide, rather than logic or habit, we find ourselves joyfully tumbling down rabbit holes, into previously unknown worlds. Applicable to all different kinds of creative production, the processes outlined in the syllabus help us to work through creative blocks and recognize patterns, and encourage getting lost as a method for finding.
Read the full syllabus here.
The Deepest Well
Association for Community Design / October 2023How do our relationships shape the way we learn, move, and participate in the world around us? What tools facilitate reciprocal, relationship-based learning environments? The Deepest Well panel brings together three educators/artists exploring the qualities of reciprocal learning environments; specifically, how community agreements are a crucial tool in co-creating space for fruitful, generative, and safer knowledge-sharing. Audience members will learn about community agreements and their best practices, and be prompted to think about how they might apply the tool as a way to create value-aligned teams, accountability structures, and assessment tools.
This work was done in partnership with Maggie Wong and Kate Rose. For more on this work and a printout , check out our website.
Small fire metal works
Oxbow + ACRE / Summer 2023Facilitating small fire metal work, using sand casting and cuddle-fish bones to create small scale objects.
Infinite Moves: the creative capacity of mentors, friends, and other learning-centered relationships
Design Forge / March 2023How do our relationships shape the way we learn, move, and participate in the world around us? How do formal and informal learning environments influence our capacity to create, play, and fall further into ourselves? In this participatory session, we’ll explore our own relationships to better understand our most fruitful, generative, and safe learning environments. Participants will work together to collectively ideate ways in which they might share and replicate these modes of relationships in and outside the classroom.
Reciprocal classroom learning
Future of Design in Higher Education / June 2023What tools facilitate reciprocal, relationship-based learning envrionments? In this participatory session, we’ll explore the qualities of reciprocal learning environments, and how community agreements are a crucial tool in co-creating space for fruitful, generative, and safe knowledge-sharing. Participants will work together to create their own community agreements for our FDHE sessions, in addition to practicing frameworks transferable to the classroom.
On Methods and Mapping
Common Field / Fall 2021Hosted by Common Field, this keynote presentation centered on the the research, methodology, development, and organizing around the Chicago Arts Census. Along with my colleagues–Adia Sykes, Stephanie Koch, and Kat Bowen–we covered presented on our methods for Research, Collective Authorship, Survey building, Dissemination and Engagement, and Next Steps.