Monthly Archive for January, 2003

Group retreat

These are few random notes i took during our group retreat.

- Spiral -> SPIROGRAPH

- Colorforms: shapes, spatial relationship, aestethic

- knots -> motor skills

Sometime the tool is an object sometime is a conceptual framework.

Alfred Gell’s “The antropology of time”

Howard Gardner “Multiple Intelligences”

Dome shadowing system

Dome Shadowing System

Multi-variable exchange

A quick sketch on how the different variable can play together in the user interface.

Biosphera Multi-Variable-Exchange

About time: Inventing the Fourth Dimension

Some notes I took while reading William Friedman’s About Time:

- rhythm

- grouping of intervals

- sequencing

- temporal order -> young children, like adults, use information about sequence to infer casual relationship

- temporal duration -> alongside order, must be stored in the long-memory representations

- event differentiation

- flow -> uniform, all encompassing single dimension along which only two events can be ordered and only two intervals compared

We need to allow children to explore freely time and duration also giving them a tool to construct a reference system.