The Ecology of Creativity
Module One: A Beginning Place
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Introduction: This course intertwines ideas and art-making throughout. It is organized into week-long modules, which should make it easier to stay on track and keep up. Each module consists of:
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Concept Stream: Reading and discussion.
Traditional, cognitive college materials |
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Project Stream: Ongoing long-term Projects; including the Online Earth Journal of each student |
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Process Stream: Focus here is on doing--making art and observing nature, plus online discussion and reflections; interactive forums where students post questions from any stream and discuss. |
Concept Stream:
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Read: The Ecological Function of Art Making and Sharing
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Read: Yearning to be Round: Introduction and Chapter One
Yearning to Be Round
Chapter Two: Thinking in Wholes
Yearning to Be Round Chapter Three: Meet Your Birth Mother
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Read: Coyote's Questions and Life Defeats Death in the Desert
Read: How We Learn Science Through Making Art |
Supplementary Reading :
Dayton and Sala, "Natural History: The Sense of Wonder, Creativity and Progress in Ecology" , (Scientia Marina 65:199–206, 2001)
Here:
www.icm.csic.es/scimar/PDFs/16dayton.pdf
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Project Stream
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Artist/Naturalist: For this course, you will take the role of Artist/Naturalist. Go HERE, and thoroughly explore. See if you can discover an affinity for one of these artist/naturalists, living or passed.
Journal of Everyday Earth: each student will create a journal of art made in response to Earth Gifts and add to it at least two times a week.
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