working with Rhosddu school the children made circus puppets from their drawings and designs, which we then animated. They designed a poster and a programme collaboratively for their ‘super silly circus’. I will post the edited version of the animation as soon as it is ready…

working with a local school to produce learning materials that were based on creative interpretation of the science curriculum. this project involved the children inventing a character with powers based on knowledge of the properties of materials and inventing narratives based on what would happen when their character met another. This enabled them to visualize concepts and create dialogues between abstract properties. I believe there are may educational advantages to children drawing ideas rather than focusing solely on their ability to verbalize.

mansfield college oxford july 2007

I presented a paper called ‘visual allegory- creating character based learning materials for children’ showing some of my own work and work produced in collaboration with school children.