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Ice Breaker
Be Curious
Look And Pause
Imagine
Go Deeper
Engage
Reflect

Step 1: Be Curious

The objective of this step is to approach digital collections through intuition, feeling, and being present.

To choose an object to work with, it is first necessary to become familiar with the available universe in the digital collections. In the following exercises, we invite you to review and browse the suggested collections with a curious and open-minded gaze. Once you know the general context, choose objects that draw your attention or that you can approach affectively.

+ This step is carried out in groups, synchronously.

+ Estimated time: 60 minutes.

assignmentActivity 1: Browsing Digital Collections

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Duration: 30 Minutes

Materials:

Step by step instructions:

  1. We invite you to explore the digital collections calmly and with an active curiosity, trying not to stay with the first things you find. Below are some prompts for searching for objects in the collections. Each group member will follow two search prompts:

    Student 1
    • Find two objects where you can notice the trace of the hand with which they were made.
    • Find objects from three different periods.
    Student 2
    • Find two objects made of different materials.
    • Find one heavy object and one light object.
    Student 3
    • Find one object with many details and another that is simple or smooth-surfaced.
    • Find one zoomorphic object and one anthropomorphic object.
    Student 4
    • Find one object that you could have in your home and another that you could not.
    • Find one hollow object and one solid object.
    Each student selects 2 to 3 images to respond to the prompts and uploads a record to the work logbook, including the links where the objects can be found in the digital collections (we do not want to lose them!).

assignmentActivity 2: Objects and Affects

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Duration: 30 Minutes

Materials:

Step by step instructions:

  1. Share the images found during the previous exercise with your group members, observing them in order to reflect on the following questions:
    • Which object attracts me?
    • Which object do I dislike?
    • Which object intrigues me?
    • Which of these objects do I think I could make myself, and which could I not?
    • Is there any object from my everyday life that resembles these or could fulfill similar functions?
    • Which object seems useless to me in the contemporary world?
    • Is there any object that could solve a current problem?
  2. Each student chooses one of the questions and adds their response to the work logbook.
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