"We haven’t learned much from the past, but there’s some things you should be able to figure out. Book burning leads to people burning." Interview with Art Spiegelman by @PENamerica: https://t.co/OP0Z9uc5JJ
First post in AGES, but it's well worth breaking radio silence to post this amazing surprise. Alumnus Christopher Cisse popped in today at the end of the academic day, saw some theatre, distributed some hugs, and told us about his success out at Rochester Institute of Technology.
Our initial essential questions:
What purpose does the building serve in the city?Why do we think it was built in this style?What role did places of worship have in the community vs what role do they have now? Does a change in this dynamic shift the way we read the architecture?
Today, Asher and I continued his studies in architecture at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. There, we sought to explore/answer several essential questions.
Rather than find simple answers, we found complex realities and even more questions we wanted to explore...
Class of 2024 Malaika Campbell has released a collection of poetry via @Amazon KDP as part of her ColLAB experience. Malaika tackled this project 99.9% independently, navigating the rather detail-oriented process with real poise and aplomb.
Senior Lyle Daniels & I reviewed numerous linguistics concepts & specific structures to English (& the history of their inclusion/usage) for his ColLAB. He is learning Toki Pona, a philosophical artistic constructed language, in hopes of a probable linguistics minor! Suno pona!!!
Ms. Legro & Mr. Jackson's Game Theory & Design ColLAB got off to quite the start today, taking part in a cartography workshop as they begin building games, building stories, & building worlds.
@winchendon_nyc #thisisschool#school#immersiveeducation#ColLAB#gaming#tabletop
Xinyu Andy Zhao TWS|MA's Renaissance man, 2017 valedictorian, & my adopted son, stopped by to see the NY campus, fill us in on his recent graduation (4 yrs for both a BS *&* MS), & let us know about his amazing 1st big job as a programmer for Amazon.