A few projects I really like, but aren’t quite ready to live on their own
Bonus Projects
The Project: A six-week asynchronous non-credit course developed for Professional Development at the University of Utah
The Goal: Encourage creative, authentic styles of communication for people already in their career to shift their approach and increase chances for growth.
Currently in redevelopment to include more focus on AI tools & technologies, this course is set tu run again as soon as Summer 2024.
Strategic Storytelling
Course Outline & Overview – built in LucidChart, has been used to secure resources & approvals from leadership.
Content map used to guide the site build and lecture recordings.
The Project: A collaborative study with of what curiosity is, how it can be honed and taught.
The Goal: Increase individual awareness of divergent thinking, playful exploration, and cross-collaboration.
In partnership with Andreas Mershin of MIT, Chris Rose of RISD, Hannah Choi, and Linden Gledhill.
Next steps are to continue researching & exploring the elements of curiosity, developing curriculum, and getting more people involved with experiential learning about curiosity.
Honing Curiosity
What is curiosity?
What are the conditions of curiosity?
Is it curated?
Can you harness curiosity and begin to use it?
How does one teach curiosity to enact radical change?
Curiosity follows the same neurological pathways as an itch and inhibits fear. Curiosity transfixed, reconfigures emotions, and begets pleasure, and we want to understand how to teach the skills of being curious. Through the lens of olfactory experiences, while integrating concepts from both scientific study and design, we are looking forward to exploring how to teach curiosity to people from all walks of life, and are curious ourselves of what we can learn about how we, as humans, formulate questions and share stories with others.
Workshop One
February 02, 2020
The first of a series of workshops and courses (to-be) exploring how we define and understand curiosity, we spent time exploring an MIT Olfactory Lab, understanding where the spark of curiosity comes from, and began to ask how we might begin to harness these questions to push the study of curiosity and exploration forward.
