The learning matrix

The workshops produced a tremendous amount of material and we needed to figure out a methodical way to  handle all the results. We started sorting through the descriptive words the children had used to see what might be more predominate or important. This process formed 5 clear categories: movements, atmospheres, objects, nature and connections. Each of them are mostly derived from the results, although in some cases we added what we observed during the workshops and described in the children’s presentations of their creations. We visualised all the words and categories and created a large chart - The Learning Landscape Matrix.Our intention  with the matrix was to find a way in which the younger children could mix their fantasy with the reality of a space (from the older kids list) while the older children could fill their real spaces with the fantasies things the younger had imagined. We realised we needed something much more tangible and hands on and decided to make the Matrix of Learning tridimensional.