Sept 20 2019
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Ollie George
“I am interested in design education and the language we use to speak about schools. I took issue with words like class, school, university… these words hold a lot of meaning and history and I am interested in finding playful, humorous and more insightful ways of describing our experience of learning’
This session gave people three randomly generated words that described a new type of learning space, for example: A radical myth station; A poetic imagination club; An open manifesto train. People then designed how these places would work. The aim of the session was to explore how language affects our understanding of places and methods of learning.
Lesson:
> Using the Nouns of Assembly website, take three randomly generated words
> Explore how this place might work, what it might do, who for and why.
> Visualise your place
Learning:
> Role of language in behaviour and learning
> Role of randomisation in opening up lateral thinking
> Generative design learning and collective knowledge creation
References:
Nouns of Assembly
a design school for anyone, made by everyone. 