The New School
Strategic Collage Workshop
I had the incredible opportunity to work closely with Sloan Leo Cowan and Flox Studio to design and implement a large-scale, campus-wide strategic collage workshop at The New School. The goal was to connect the Steering Committee and Student Body through visual dialogue about current institutional challenges, creating new ways to envision the future together.
Cut paper collage workshops were used to express, critique, and re-envision the personal and collective experience. This dynamic creative process allowed for the deconstructing and re-combining found imagery in experimental ways to create new meaning and expressions. The collage workshops allowed participants to move beyond words to express their experiences and dreams for the future, creating a new dialogue to engage each other authentically and honestly, and move forward together however abstract and undefined the future may feel.
I lead the following elements of this engagement:
- Created 300 curated collage packets that were distributed to all participants as workshop materials
- Lead 2 in-person collage workshops on campus
- Created a virtual collage workshop accessible online to any participants
- Created a Strategic Workshop Synthesis, reflecting the strategy, rich experiences, conversations and visual expressions of ideation
A huge thank you to Sloan Leo Cowan, the entire team at Flox Studio, Evan Ressegger for collage packet support, Linus Schmidt for photography support, The New School's Steering Committee and Student Body for an incredible collaboration, trust, support and open hearts and minds reimagining a stronger future together.