Hope all is well, everyone.

Wow- what a weekend!

The DIY workshop has been a lot of fun, and our students are excited.   It’s great to have students that are so involved (amazingly focused).

 At this point, the class as a whole understood very well what the workshop was about, and building instructions, and they were trying to find their own projects and ideas to explore.  One student said that she wanted to make an automated umbrella that she could wear as a backpack (!).  Irene , another student, was working on a cat exercising furniture piece at home since the first workshop began.  Their crazy inventive ideas  made me very happy!!

We did some exercise on the second workshop, one is The Marshmallow challenge. The students were ask to build the tallest structure using marshmallow and spaghette in 18 mins.  And each group needed to take 5 minutes and made an instruction on how they made it, and taught it to the other group.

The other exercise was an instruction and drawing exercise — we took Sol Lewitt’s diagram and asked the students to follow the instructions and made a large drawing with groups.

We then compared the result from the groups and observed how they understood and followed the same instructions.  We had a discussion on  how some instructions were made to ask people to make identical results, while others were giving more organic results — people could be making different projects from the same set of instructions, and which did the students like better?