Reading Time: 6 minutesFlame icon created by Freepik – Flaticon Open Toolkits ’25 BarCamp 14:10-16:20 18th November 2025 West Court, Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh A BarCamp is a stucture for presenting and playtesting a UX; in this case, an Open Toolkit. Open Toolkits ’25 runs prior to the open publication of this year’s […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOpen Toolkits are free, open resources created by artists and arts organisations for the purpose of sharing their practices 2025’s cohort of MA Contemporary Art Theory students will each create an Open Toolkit to share with you. Each Toolkit enables an open way of inhabiting a practice by taking part in it. An archive […]
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Reading Time: 4 minutesSummary： This open toolkit guides learners through a connected and systematic sequence of observing, questioning, comparing, and rewriting in response to a contemporary artwork. The process emphasises interpretation as a constructive act shaped by perspective rather than correctness. To support online learners who lack real-time interaction, this version includes a collective comment section at the […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesIntroduction Have you ever wondered leftover tea can be dyed to produce different colors and textures? In this “One Tea, One Cloth – Tea Dyeing Mini Lab”, you will use two types of tea and two kinds of fabrics to run a small “science + craft + art” experiment within 20 minutes. You don’t need […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesSummary: In recent years, sleep problems have received increasing attention and discussion, especially after the start of winter time. Many people are troubled by sleep issues due to emotions, lifestyle habits, and other factors. This toolkit will help you create a simple sleep healing tool: a soft, fragrant pillow “toy.” The entire creation process is […]
Reading Time: 5 minutesIntroduction The activity will teach you a practical, repeatable method for abstracting a real space. You will follow a set of steps to produce a rough piece of work, which you may then choose to refine or use as a basis for further experimentation. You may either work digitally or on paper, which can aid […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesSummary： This open toolkit aims to help learners develop curatorial writing skills through direct engagement with a contemporary artwork. By observing, questioning, and rewriting, participants learn how visual evidence and contextual knowledge shape interpretation. The process emphasizes interpretation as construction, not as finding a correct meaning. Learning Outcomes: After the session, learners will be […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes This practice is for anyone all genders, all backgrounds. Feminist Decluttering is about noticing the silent rules that society puts on us: how we “should” look, behave, spend time, and constantly try to be “better”. Instead, we are here to take back our space, our time, and our right to live for ourselves. Instead of spending time and energy catering to the gaze and […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesTea and Art: A Learning Suite for Experience, Reflection and Sharing is a 20-minute open learning toolkit centered on tea art. What is “Tea Art”?Li (2020) defines tea art as a reflection of the tea ceremony that perfectly combines tea ceremony and art.Link: https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/125949451.pdf 1.Introduction (1 minute) This course takes tea art practice as the […]
Reading Time: 5 minutesSynopsis A practical guide for creation, teaching learners to obtain script texts from the website of the radio drama, and complete the performance of the radio drama by imitating the author’s expression styles and rhythm control. Introduction Have you ever wanted to stand in front of the microphone and boldly release your voice? […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes🪧 Introduce · Do you feel stressed? Are you often anxious about your studies, work or life? Spending time in nature has a uniquely restorative effect on us, both cognitively and mentally. […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesSynopsis A 20-minute, step-by-step toolkit that helps any learner turn nerves into energy and deliver a clear 30-second opening using paced breathing, a personal self-talk line, and an if-then plan. How this toolkit connects You will read for 30 seconds twice. The Practice Text Pack gives you short public-domain passages to read. The Mini Workbook […]
Reading Time: 7 minutesHI – Wake up, Welcome to 2025 Cyber Generation. You, Human, WHY WE NEED STUPID YOU? 🙂 BEFORE START – Quickly Look Have you felt anxiety, confused by the title? Are you not having good painting expression skills, or have no ideas? Please follow those videos of self-emotion express experience on YouTube. (Optional) (All […]
Reading Time: 6 minutesDear friend, Welcome to this corner of courage and authenticity. Perhaps you have been trapped by the idea of “must be perfect” for a long time, consuming your inner energy and leaving you without the courage to start so many things; Or maybe you’re just curious about self-exploration. No matter who you are, welcome to join this short […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesIntroduction & Aim Much like in life, the creative process often leads us into moments of uncertainty or “lack of inspiration.” Makers, artisans, and artists whose well-being depends on their creations know about it very well. These moments, however, are not to be feared. Instead, they offer an opportunity to shift perspectives, pushing us to […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesIntroduction This toolkit is for those stuck in a loop. The instructions provided may be used to escape from a physical, mental, or imaginary situation. The learner will engage in double-loop thinking by following instructions to write a short text; this process can be applied to a project, artwork, problem, or thought experiment. Single-loop learning […]
Reading Time: 6 minutes“We perform ourselves in everyday life.”——Erving Goffman – The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life Introduction (2 minutes) Everyday Exhibition is an online, self-paced micro-curation toolkit that invites you to slow down and rediscover the aesthetics hidden in your daily life. Drawing from Erving Goffman, a sociologist who described everyday life as a kind […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes The core impact of media does not come from the “content” it carries, but from the media itself as “an extension of humans.” Specific Learning Objectives: 1, By selecting, pasting, and annotating media materials, complete a collage portrait and use art works to reflect on media. 2, Through reflection, understand the […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesSection 1: Introduction – Art is All Around You ( 2 mins) Learning Goal: To challenge the preconceptions that art must be a skilled craft and introduce the idea that “concept” is central. Question: When you hear the word ‘conceptual art’, what’s the first idea that comes to mind? In my view, Conceptual art is the […]
Reading Time: 6 minutesData Art Classroom Toolkit Data is everywhere—our emotions, daily routines, habits, environment, and choices all involve data. In this toolkit, you will learn how to transform simple numbers from your life into visually expressive artworks using p5.js. No prior coding experience is required—you only need curiosity and some personal data. […]
Reading Time: 6 minutesWhat’s Your emotion now? We often divide our life into different stages, taking major events as the symbol, and compress the emotional complexity of each period into a single dominant emotion. When we lovelorn, we will summarize this difficult time as a sad emotion. However, the emotion is so soft that it is changeable every […]
Reading Time: 5 minutesConcept Our pockets are the miniature museum of our daily life. The objects we carry are not random. They are unconscious traces of time, behavior, and identity. In Pocket Archive, participants are both archaeologists and curators: excavating the objects they carry, arranging them as an exhibition, and discovering the hidden connection between body, habits, and […]
