Author Archives: chfoley

we presented 2 weeks ago today. I’m writing this reflection using my notes/journal entries from the day of, photos my mom took of OLB, and memory. -the presentation was a success. people showed interest in each of our 3 projects. we need better representation of the chair in the palmer. -lisa suggested a place for […]

all our crit room brainstorming culminated in several ideas for different kinds of seating to disrupt the status quo of critique. bobbie made this genetically modified donkey seat, incorporating the idea of therapy donkeys into seating for the crit room. Audrey and I both modeled high chairs to draw attention to the person presenting, elevating them […]

  I want to make a quilt with all the scraps of crochet we practice making w different materials!!!! what a cool artifact to hang in the palmer. it’s also serves as another example of data visualization- our time, effort and process materialized in an object.

The abstract from a Penn State Graduate School of  Visual Arts dissertation written by Renée Kredell aptly summarizes performance art pedagogy  which has partly informed our crochet classroom project: “…performance art, used as a pedagogical methodology, can create an educational space that is transformative (causing reflection, both personal, and institutional. The dissertation aligns performance-art pedagogy with […]

we met with Lisa this morning. She was helpful in outlining some next steps, but the process is inherently messy so we are definitely going to have to work and think HARD to make all the pieces come together. we spent the rest of the afternoon in 203B brainstorming and interviewing and affinity mapping. by […]

I’ve found my point of inspiration in the crit room. Although I still want to make connections to Sanders/the experience of computer science students, I am particularly interested in how students give and receive crit/how teachers critique their students’ work. what can the crit room offer to these experiences? how can the crit room intervene […]