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Imagining Possibilities with Recycled Materials

Presenters: Keynote presentations by Sarah Denholm, Kirsty Liljegren and Jennifer McAuliffe

Date: Saturday 23 February 2019

Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm (registration from 8:30am)

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Category: Conference

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Program Description

Imagining Possibilities with Recycled Materials

“We must go beyond materials and techniques to stop and look at processes of empathy and intense relations with things…”  Vea Vecchi (2010)

 

Keynote Speakers:

Sarah Denholm

Kirsty Liljegren

Jennifer McAuliffe

 

Imagining Possibilities with Recycled Materials offers a full day of presentations on the creative uses of waste materials in educational settings. Featuring keynote presentations from Sarah Denholm, Kirsty Liljegren and Jennifer McAuliffe, participants will explore the role of materials in designing, researching and documenting children’s learning.

Themes include:

  • The communicative potential of materials
  • Intentional listening
  • The researching educator
  • The ‘grammar of materials’ (Vea Vecchi)
  • Organising materials to invite participation
  • Creating partnerships to source materials for use as educational tools
  • Sustainability and the ethics of materials

 

Full program details will be available in early February.

 

Photo credit: Chris Martin


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