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Forthcoming Lectures + Events Seeing Anew [IFF-L20]A lecture by Trevor and Ryan Oakes at Machine Project Sunday, June 24 @ 7pm // Previous IFF Lectures The Logic Alphabet of Shea Zelleweger[IFF-L19]A discussion with the IFF and Dr. Shea Zelleweger at Foshay Masonic Lodge Saturday, March 3 @ 5pm Structural Considerations of the Business Card Sponge[IFF-L17] By Dr. Jeannine Mosely Sunday, September 10 @ 8pm The Insect Trilogy @ Telic Arts Exchange How Flies Fly [IFF-L14] By Dr Michael Dickinson The Ecology of a Termite's Gut [IFF-L15] By Dr Jared Leadbetter What is it Like to be a Spider? [IFF-L16] By Dr Simon Pollard Where the Wild Things Are 2: Things That Think: Where the Wild Things Are: Crocheting the Hyperbolic Plane: Darwinism on a Desktop: The Logic Alphabet Why Things Don't Fall Down Kindergarten: Crocheting the Hyperbolic Plane [IFF-L5] The Mathematics of Paper Folding [IFF-L4] The Physics of Snowflakes [IFF-L3] Crocheting the Hyperbolic Plane [IFF-L2] The Figure That Stands Behind Figures: // Previous Events Crochet Hyperbolic Workshop |
The Institute
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| Kindergarten – “the
garden of children” – is one of the most pervasive institutions
in existence: Googling the word Kindergarten yields 11 million results,
Christianity 13 million. But the kindergarten most of us experienced
as infants is a diluted version of what originated as a radical
and highly spiritual system of abstract-design activities whose
universal, alternative language of geometric form aimed to cultivate
children’s innate ability to observe, reason, express and
create. As practiced initially, the aim of kindergarten was “to
instill in children an understanding of what an earlier generation
would have called ‘the music of the spheres’ –
the mathematically generated logic underlying the ebb and flow of
creation.” // In his book "Inventing Kindergarten" Norman Brosterman argues that within this lost world of women and children we can locate the seedbed of modern art. With its emphasis on abstract decomposition and building up from elemental forms, the original kindergarten system of the mid-nineteenth century created an education and design revolution that profoundly affected the course of modern art and architecture, as well as physics, music, psychology and the modern mind itself. In this lecture Brosterman will discuss the history of kindergarten and its influence on such modernist giants as Frank Lloyd Wright, Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Le Corbusier and the Bauhaus school. |
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An architect, collector, curator and wood carver, Norman Brosterman became interested in Friedrich Froebel’s kindergarten system while compiling one of the world’s finest collections of children’s building blocks and construction toys. He is also the author of "Out of Time: Designs for the Twentieth Century Future", a book about science fiction visions of futures past. Brosterman’s collection of building blocks became the basis for the “Potential Architecture” exhibition at the Canadian Center for Architecture in Montreal and his collection of sci-fi drawings was the basis for a Smithsonian Institution traveling show. // This lecture series is supported by a grant from the Annenberg Foundation. |
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