"There is no single faculty called ‘curiosity’; every normal organ of sense and of motor activity is on the qui vive. It wants a chance to be active, and it needs some object in order to act. The sum total of these outgoing tendencies constitutes curiosity." (John Dewey in How We Think: A Restatement of the Relation of Reflective Thinking to the Educative Process, 1933, p. 37)

Catie_2019 Untitled    Catie Newell

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Murphy05 Guns and Medicine    Gary Murphy

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Aleksis3 Ambigram    Aleksis Lahti

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Sharon03 The Identity of Color    Sharon Que

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Peter2 Pod    Peter Hansen

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Marie3 Entrance Not For Everyone    Marie Tapert

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Kipling3 Fraction Dowel Box    John Kipling / Fred Goodman

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Newdoll1 Journey to Neon    Julie Newdoll

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Doug04 Steam engine    Doug Fraleigh

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Hapgood3 Sand    Susanna Hapgood

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Ray1 Untitled    Ray Wetzel

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Vaneck2 No Illusion Has Any Truth In It    Jon Van Eck

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Knezek2 Mirror boxes    Patricia Knezek and Gary Muller

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Chris3 Four Basic Ingredients    Chris Fraleigh

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Fran4 A Beautiful Space    Fran Beallor

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Nick1 Little Boxes    Nick Sousanis

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Cabinet3 The Cabinet    Dave Breakey and Jon Van Eck

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Presentation14 Exploration    Everyone

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A set of shoebox-sized "provocations" created by invitation for a presentation by Susanna Hapgood, Jeff Kupperman, Aviva Dorfman, Suzy Knezek, and Remi Holden at the Conference on Creativity, Play, and the Imagination Across Disciplines, Teachers College, Columbia University, May 28, 2011. Contact: susanna [dot] hapgood [at] utoledo [dot] edu.