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Exercises
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something BlueAlways Try and Read Something Beautiful on Waking, First Thing
Parliament Debate
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Tuned in: Listening and Thinking-Out-Loud Together
Senses and the Soundscape
What is School For?
Tight Doorways Into Big Rooms
The Human Camera
Rumpelstiltskin-ing
Play by the Rules
Starting Out
Drawing Exercise
Tilting Time – An Exercise for the Mind
Art Proposal Thought Exercise
River Crossing Puzzle
The Tour Mindset Exercise
On Making Things From Scratch
Participatory Reading Event
An Exercise in Automatic Writing
On Half-Blind Drawing
Copyright It
Mycological Provisions
All Ears Workshop
The Fall of the Studio (And Others)
Time Totem
Exercise for Urban Areas
Hallucinations Without Drugs
Diary Exercise
Remote Choreography
Mental Exercise / Mental Pause / Mental Force
The Reception Game
Tailoring a Conceptual Experience
49 Ways to Change Your Home
Collage Scavenger Hunt
To Get Away from the Romantic Idea of the Individual
The YES! Principle
News Papers
Notebook Exercise
Book Drop
Art in a Time Like This
Singing Rocks
Unspoken Projection Between Strangers
Hey Student & Hey Teacher
Instructions for an Unexpected Absence
25 Ways to Make Love to the Earth
Image to Body
The Sentence
The Excluded
Lines Into and Through Head-Space
Make a Space
The Circle Game
Banner Drop
Listen ’n Speak
Time Totem
This exercise encourages thinking about shared experience and individual interpretations of specific moments. Each child receives the same instructions but individual results will vary greatly.
Create a collective totem sculpture representing a specific amount of time.
It is recommended that the project is introduced by discussing how we measure and appreciate time. Get suggestions from the class.
Give each child a fist sized lump of white air-drying clay.
Give the following instructions:
“You will be timed for five minutes as you play with the clay. You can roll the clay in your hands, squeeze it, pinch it, imprint it with your fingers. Do not try and make a shape, just feel the clay.”
After five minutes STOP immediately.
Everyone should create a hole wide enough to thread the clay into a totem.
Restart the timer and give the class the following instructions:
“You will now be timed for twenty-five minutes as you paint the clay. Use the paint provided to decorate the clay with colourful patterns and designs, follow the contours of your fingers.”
Beads/feathers or any of the other materials provided can be added at this point too.
After twenty-five minutes everyone must STOP immediately.
Everyone now has a small lump of clay representing half an hour of their time and creativity.
String the individual moments together to create a large time totem.