Articles about West Wight cultural connections
Make a celebratory walk linking the Neolithic sites - the tumuli, underwater archaeology, the Longstone and Downland tumuli and ditches of the West Wight - how do you link archaeology and current surface landscape and geological terrain layers link with our ideas of the Neolithic Culture - what do we think we know, and what do we actually know?
Robert Hooke: from lowly Freshwater youth to the Curator of Experiments at the Royal Society, the experimental engineer for both Isaac Newton and Sir Christopher Wren, helped in the planning and rebuilding of London after the Great Fire and was the first to document the Scientific Method,
At Portsmouth Art College in the mid-Sixties, the sculptor-research artist Maurice Owen became fascinated with the Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico, and especially the series of his paintings labelled Il Grande Metafisico (The Great Metaphysician) - he developed 3-dimensional interpretations of these flat paintings, depending upon whether the set-square in the painting was 45/45/90 or 90/ 30/60. His finished constructions were bought by Le Centre Pompidou in the 1990s
Birbalsingh is a strong advocate of child-centred learning - this is a technique totally familiar to art and design creatives - it is how we encourage hands-on learning in most art colleges and universities, and it stemmed from Government Design Schools and the famous Bauhaus and Russian Vhkutemas schools. There are strong arguments in favour of student-centred, project-based learning... explore them with us!
