Project description

Prayer brings unity to a group. Singing has the same effect on a group.

This is a designer's log. It includes class notes, outside of class planning meeting notes, and personal idea notes.

Project details:
Thanksgiving Point Museum of Natural Curiosity. A major goal is to get parents and children learning together in an enjoyable experience. The museum will have multi-disciplinary exhibits. How does a person help to facilitate, kick-off, and stimluate parent and child togetherness in learning through the exhibits? The project is centered on the person with a role of wandering around and help learning happen without become the teacher. It is like the idea of a catalyst. Catalyst is not changed by kicking off reactions in other chemicals.

We are writing a manual for the catalyst role to help something happen between parents and children exploring the museum.

This wandering catalyst should be semi-invisible and unrecognizable and transparent. This person creates an impact and then moves on. This person is an interaction stimulator, but does not really participate in the interaction.

We are creating a manual and a training system.

Metaphor: Performer/Agent in a setting/environment. Performer acts on the environment or artifacts in the environment like a system. The environment and systems respond to the performer in a cause/effect ways or orderly. "Acting in the world" Learning takes place through acting and seeing the response. A companion can be added (catalyst) to the environment for learning efficiency, danger mitigation, and focus (suggest interpretation and provide models).
Catalyst could be an evaluator, facilitator, teacher, conversationalist, etc.

Personal thoughts: Perhaps the catalyst role can be patterned after the way God interacts with us.

What are we going to have to know?
Read chapter 1 of Ten Faces.