Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Looking at 4MAT, again

Thinking about paradigms and ways, frameworks, structures, that embrace the way we perceive, think, process, design.

I thought of 4MAT, again... (well, really, it was an article in the New Yorker that struck my thoughts...the article was about the theater, philosophy, writing, etc. of artist William Kentridge. He was talking about his early theater training and how 'There was this theater school I'd heard about in Paris, L'Ecole Jacques Lecoq, whose approach was very different from traditional forms of theater training. Instead of starting with a text, Lecoq started with movement as the basis."

Somehow, that reminded me of 4MAT, and how that design philosophy says that we begin with experience (one could also say movement too) as how we 'process' our experiences. I also begun thinking about my past training with 4MAT because work hired a ID and asessment person to come in for the last faculty retreat and her book mentioned Kolb, which mae me think about the system again. I heard that her workshop wasn't very engaging, or ? - in any case, I'm thinking about my own knowledge and training.
(A big plus in my book is that 4MAT is also very artistic and looks pretty! LOL)

 







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