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
A resource from Cultures of Thinking

Understanding Map
A resource from Cultures of Thinking

A visual depiction of the ways in which students make meaning and understand concepts.

Understanding Map

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Article
Boston Early Civics Curriculum
A resource from Children Are Citizens & Making Learning Visible

Boston Early Civics Curriculum
A resource from Children Are Citizens & Making Learning Visible

Blog describing curriculum developed by Mardell and others in the Boston Public School kindergartens that recognizes children are citizens. And, examples from BPS K2: Kindergartners' ideas for making Boston a fairer and more interesting place for children.

Link to the Blog
Our Boston 2014 Download

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Article
Engaging City Hall: Children as Citizens
A resource from Children Are Citizens & Making Learning Visible

Engaging City Hall: Children as Citizens
A resource from Children Are Citizens & Making Learning Visible

An article by Krechevsky, Mardell, & Romans putting forth a view of young children as citizens.

Engaging City Hall: Children as Citizens Download

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Thinking Routines (Video)
A resource from Artful Thinking & Visible Thinking

Thinking Routines (Video)
A resource from Artful Thinking & Visible Thinking

Thinking Routines

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Article
Art Works at Work: The Impact of Workplace Art
A resource from Art Works at Work

Art Works at Work: The Impact of Workplace Art
A resource from Art Works at Work

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 exhibition’s features salient to their experience of the art. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 19 affiliates of an Australian organization with an institutional art collection. The interview data were transcribed and analyzed using thematic analysis by two researchers, with a final inter-rater reliability of 0.96. The results showed that respondents believe there are five main ways they are impacted by the art in their workplace: the art promotes social interactions, elicits emotional responses, facilitates personal connection-making, generally enhances the workplace environment and fosters learning. Participants indicated the salient features of the collection are its changing nature, creativity, diversity, quality and connection to the organization’s mission. The findings suggest that there may be a number of positive impacts on employees and other affiliates when art is present in the workplace, including interpersonal learning and mission-related content learning. The findings suggest that art connected to the organization’s mission, rotating exhibitions and diverse collections are valued by workplace viewers. The study highlights the importance of the aesthetic environment in the workplace and is one of the first to examine artworks in the work setting.

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