storytelling by moving wooden pieces

Craftswomen winding the cotton strings around their home-made loom for a Boucherouite carpet in South West Morocco.

food for thought: what education can learn from religions http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vXUvhfqcM_M#at=90

Inspiration:

A different approach to design: http://kulchi.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/the-secret-language-of-azilal-rugs.

Different places of learning: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/08/20/classroom-portraits-julian-germain/

A different way of telling a story: http://www.woaw.org.au/teachers/tell-an-aboriginal-story-activity/

A moroccan weaving comb with a traditional diamond symbol. These tools are passed down generations and are beautiful objects by themselves.

           Impressions from travelling in the Draa Valley, South West Morocco.

                                          play - pattern making

aleatoric- german origin -some element of the artwork is left to chance, and/or some primary element of a composed work's realization is left to the determination of its performer(s).

really nice article about using imagination in the classroom

empty book

-examples of beautifully diaries here, here, here, here, here

thinking about: storytelling through textiles