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What Can a Body Do? (First Year Read, 2024)

A guide to the First Year Reading Program selection for 2024: What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World, by Sara Hendren.

Epilogue

Further Reading

Isotype

International System of Typographic Picture Education: Originally conceived of in Germany and now the general term for a simple graphic that represents the expected use of a space.


Krzysztof Wodiczko & Interrogative Design

"Interrogative design—making things not only for solving problems, but to ask questions."
(What Can a Body Do?, p. 202)

“Interrogative Designs: Conversations with Krzysztof Wodiczko” | Part 1, Featuring Erika Naginski

Maxine Greene & The Social Imagination

"The arts can move the young to see what they have never seen, to view unexpected possibilities. They are always there on the margins to refuse the indecent, the unjust, to awaken the critical and committed to visions of things being otherwise. There can be no final solution; but there is time--always time--to reject somnolence, to choose to begin."

(Greene, 2010; emphasis added)

Maxine Greene addresses the topic of imagination. From the Museum of Education’s Readers’ Guide to Education exhibition.