Arts & Aesthetics

Art and design is all around us, from the objects that we make and use, to the complex systems we participate in, to the ideas we imagine and construct. With a foundational focus on learning and the arts, Project Zero has spent nearly five decades exploring skills and capacities that will help learners of all ages notice, understand, and manipulate their designed world.

Resources

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Understanding Map
Published: 2015
A visual depiction of the ways in which students make meaning and understand concepts. Read more
Article
Boston Early Civics Curriculum
Published: 2014
Blog describing curriculum developed by Mardell and others in the Boston Public School kindergartens that recognizes children are citizens. And, examples from BPS K2:... Read more
Article
Engaging City Hall: Children as Citizens
Published: 2014
An article by Krechevsky, Mardell, & Romans putting forth a view of young children as citizens. Read more
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Thinking Routines (Video)
Published: 2014
Article
Art Works at Work: The Impact of Workplace Art
Published: 2014
This paper explores the impact that employees and board members of an organization believe the art in their workplace has on their experience at work and identifies the... Read more