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2015-03-08
08 March
On 8 March 2015
In arouse SOLIDARITY
Tagged ableism matters, class matters, faith matters, fieldtrips, origin matters, race matters, simulation/gaming, youth

The Canterbury School | March 2015

This is the tale of a 3-day design event in which middle school students and their teachers imagine and begin to create a more beautiful world. Our initial responsibilities were to start to arouse solidarity in participants with persons separated from them by social identity and to begin cultivating transformation in participants’ ways of thinking and doing toward others. We provided insight, design and impetus each step of the way and will continue to work with the school over the next year to help them to continue to progress.more…

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it's easier to get from THERE to HERE than it is to get from HERE to THERE.
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everything that someone tells you is true; they are reporting their experience of reality.
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to argue with someone else’s experience is a waste of time.
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to add someone’s experience to your experience, to create a new experience, is possibly valuable.
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discovering you don’t know something is the first step to knowing it.
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we know more together than we do apart.
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you understand the instructions only after you have assembled the red wagon.
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if you can’t have fun with a problem, you will never solve it.
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the future is rational only in hindsight.
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every person working a problem already possesses an answer or an important piece of one; the work of design is to stimulate one, several, or all of us to remember what we already know.
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in every adverse condition, there are hundreds of good solutions.
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creativity is the process of eliminating options.
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you fail until you succeed.
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nothing fails like success.
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nothing is real until it is practiced.
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we are who we practice to be.
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