Brandon Clifford, Johanna Lobdell, & Wes McGee

Crop Circle Kit

Crop Circle Kit

introduces architectural education into middle and high school pedagogy, with the aim of fostering play as a means to learn. Using architectural projects with legacies of myth and geometric mystery,

Crop Circle Kit

curricula draws from Neolithic stone circles, to geoglyphs, to crop circles. As part of this curricula,

Crop Circle Kit

designed a collection of constructed histories, as told through a series of written and illustrated vignettes. The mission of this work is to provide an educational experience at the crossroads of imagination and reality.

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Crop Circle Kit

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Credits

year

: 2020

principals

: Brandon Clifford & Jo Lobdell

project leads

: Taylor Boes \ Gil Sunshine

visualizations

: Mackenzie Muhonen

acknowledgements

: This research is funded in part by the "

Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab (J-WEL)

pk-12 Education Innovation Program”, an initiative of MIT and Community Jameel, which works with member organizations to promote excellence and transformation in education at MIT and worldwide. Further support is provided by the MIT HASS Fund,

The Grayson School

, the

Louisiana State University Virtual Frictions Workshop

, and the

University of Arkansas John G. Williams Distinguished Visiting Professorship

. If you are interested in funding research into progressive education platforms, please email us at info@cropcirclekit.org.