SENSE.
Try to be open and ready to direct your perception – hearing, smelling, seeing, tasting. It’s also about showing that experience physically and emotionally. Provide ways for people to hear, see or taste and share what they have noticed.
Identify and express the different layers of perception.What colours? What textures? What smells? What sounds can I hear?
What is happening?
Connect with other people’s knowledge and experience.
Involve.
Try to understand where everyone is coming from. Offer different spaces for people to contribute, with different levels of interaction, and spend time on each one to make the activity more valuable to everyone.
How does each person contribute to this experience? What is my goal for this project? What is the other persons goal?
What does this mean to me?
What does this mean to you?
Make.
Offer chances to watch and talk about what you have done through making things and practical activities. Make your own ideas based on what you can see and feel and how you feel inside. Think about what other people in the group think, and put these together. Say it in your own words.
What are the challenges I have when I try to be practical and try something I don’t know how it will work?
How does the topic or object change?
What does it do?
Imagine.
Bring people together to share different ways of exploring, creating and thinking. Try to open your mind to new ideas and think about things differently. Choose something that is neither too easy nor too difficult for you.
How do we understand the world around us, think and act?
How can I change the space to create different ways of seeing it, thinking about it, and doing it?
How could this work?
What is this for you?
How does this work?
How can I open my mind to different perspectives?
Relate & Connect.
Try to make links between what you see and the patterns you notice. Consider what you already know, what others know, and what you can find in texts or multimedia resources.
How does this relate to other things?
What new ideas or opportunities are there?
Set off to Find Out.
Introduce a stimulus that encourages an open and ongoing situation to be explored.
What would I like to know about it?
What do I already know about it?
What matters to me?
What first step can I take?
What are our shared goals?
Discipline Switch.
Try to mix science, art, beauty, space, technology and society to understand facts, phenomena and problems. Remember that things can be interpreted in more than one way. Not all problems have easy answers, so be patient while you wait for them.
Co-produce & Act
Combine learning and knowledge with the ability to take action on issues that affect us all. Work together to produce facts and information in research and learning processes, and in research that is also a learning process.
What are we doing when we learn together?
How can we use evidence to make decisions together?
How can we act on our own and together?
Be Diversive & Inclusive
Be open to all kinds of people. Ask yourself if you are leaving anyone out as you move through the learning process. Make sure underrepresented groups get involved.
How can we improve inclusivity through feedback?
What actions help make sure everyone can take part meaningfully?
Who am I missing in this process?
Work with Space, Place and Time.
Put questions and activities in the right place and make them relevant to the local area. Think about the effect of politics on this space.
What steps can ensure thorough exploration over quick conclusions?
How does the local area affect our approach?
What things about space should we think about?
How can we focus on the process rather than just getting immediate results?