Maiken's inquiry

Design Projects

approaches +ideas for teachers

A resource to be used with and for teachers of Design and Visual Communication in Aotearoa New Zealand As partial fulfilment of the Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching Programme for International Teachers requirements By Maiken Calkoen

Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater. Video explaining the significance and meaning of this piece of architecture.

Inquiry Project:Strategies for facilitating divergent design thinking in students while engaged in design practice and individual project work

Architect Zaha Hadid's building 520W 28th Street and the concepts driving the architecture

Precedents and sources of note from time in the USA

Oil painting of Indiana, Pennsylvania, part of the township on the edge of campus of IUP

Frameworks and initiatives of note from time in the USA

Pittsburgh: A context for innovation and education

Aotearoa New Zealand frameworks + new curriculum / assessment resources

Oil painting of part of Aotearoa New Zealand as viewed from above

Creativity,analysis and interpretation of divergent thinking

Thomas Heatherwick's Vessel: concept and construction

Strategies for teachers for initiating project work with students

Summit One Vandebilt: Immersive experience within specific spatial design.

Ideas / strategies for facilitating exploration / divergent thinking

Gustav Klimt : Gold in Motion. Immersive exhibition, NYC.

Next steps for teachers + approaches to the long-game of sustaining project work

Santiago Calatrava's Oculus building: Explanation of the architect's intention for the user