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Jan 11 2017

Physical Representations of Abstract Concepts | A Project Idea

Sometimes students and teachers struggle with how to integrate Design Thinking, Making, or other product-focused classes into abstract classes like history or philosophy. Sometimes they also struggle with integrating these types of classes into the sciences. I am personally a big fan of using the means and materials of a product-focused class to abstractly represent abstract concepts. You can see work like this in my Apocalypto, The Long Now, Electricity States, MAKEShift Poetry, and Piracy Based Learning projects. One aspect that people struggle with is how to illustrate concepts. If the abstract concept is our muse, what is our palette? Here is a brief list of categories and some links to get you started:

Electricity & Light

Electromechanical

Mechanical Gears & Linkages

Software

Sound

 

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