Reading Time: 3 minutesConcept Your pocket is a miniature museum of your daily life. The objects you carry are not random—they are unconscious traces of time, behavior, and identity. In Pocket Archive, participants act as both archaeologist and curator: excavating the objects they carry, arranging them as an “exhibition,” and discovering the hidden connection between body, habits, and […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesIntroduction After trauma, how do we go on living? Perhaps art cannot provide us with answers, but it can help us see who we are and face the truth. Reflecting on trauma is important—it can effectively help us bid farewell to the past. Yet our goal is not to dwell on the past and the […]

Reading Time: 4 minutesSummary The core focus of this Open Toolkit is to enable you to complete a small weaving art installation in the style of Cathy Jacobs within 20 minutes. You can create a mini work of 10 to 15cm that can be directly used as a desktop decoration. The content will be revolve around the construction […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesDo you want to be an artist?🧑‍🎨 Do you want to have a pet partner? Let’s go!!!   ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Unit1: Prepare Materials 🧻Newspapers or tissues 🔖Cardboard or cardstock 🥣Latex ✂️Scissors 🩹Tape 🖋️Marker pen 🎨Acrylic pigment   ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Unit2: Teaching Video （Only look at the first 6 minutes） 🎥 http://xhslink.com/o/5rd6zs8GBDm   ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Unit3: Making Steps 1.Think […]

Reading Time: < 1 minuteSummary The focus of this open toolkit lies in exploring the connection between music and memory and helping learners present their emotional and memory responses to music in a visual form. Through reflective listening and visual creation, learners can transform their personal experiences into a creative form of expression. Materials needed: A computer or phone, […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesSuitable for whom? People of any age, whether you are an adult or a child. Whether or not you have an artistic background, you are welcome to explore.   learning aims 1. Recall and identify childhood spaces. Recalling specific memories and spaces (such as rooms or gardens) through sensory cues (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory). 2. […]

Reading Time: 6 minutesSummary This open toolkit guides you through a simple but rich observation exercise. This open learning manual will guide you through a very simple yet inspiring observation exercise to explore how “time” affects our perception of artworks. Sometimes, when we think we are “looking,” we are actually just focusing on the brightest or most central part […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesReading (1 minute) Learning Objectives To enhance self-awareness by expressing learners’ personal perceptions of themselves. To understand the limitations and complexities of generative AI tools (algorithm-generated images may not align with your perceived “accurate” self-image). To explore topics related to self-awareness, prompting reflection on the comprehensiveness of your self-perception. To conduct self-assessment through reflection and […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes♠Learning Aims · Understand the profound significance of the body as a vessel for identity formation· Acquire fundamental techniques for self-exploration through artistic methods · Cultivate awareness of bodily sensations and emotional states · Develop cognitive connections between personal experiences and socio-cultural contexts · Create personally meaningful body maps and embodied expressions · Conduct self-assessment […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesAims: My open toolkit may help contemporary art students gain clearer insight into career prospects. It can effectively help relieve employment pressures and reshape their employment perceptions through psychological support or job opportunities on various websites.   Image source: SHVETS production on Pexels Step 1: Experience sharing (10 mins) a) Introduce your previous work experience. […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes1.Introduction Thinking question (1 min) “If I place a toilet in an art museum, is it considered art? For example, look at the photo below.” This is a classic question in contemporary art. In traditional views, art is understood as painting, sculpture, or handcrafted objects. The object shown above is Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain (1917). In […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesReading Time: 3–5 minutes This toolkit helps beginners understand exhibition accessibility through two practical tasks: writing alternative text and assessing visual clarity. In exhibitions, accessibility means all visitors—including those with visual impairments—can access information. This toolkit offers simple ways to make visual culture more inclusive.   No physical tools needed just a pen or digital device […]

Reading Time: 7 minutes  Introduction / Context     When you think of ‘Model Villages’, you might immediately think of miniature houses. This is by no means incorrect- but the term ‘model village’ can also refer to the industrial ‘model villages’ designed by architects to house industrial workers. By making this ceramic house you are constructing your own […]

Reading Time: 4 minutesThis open toolkit guides learners to express emotions through simple signs by observing and transforming the structural logic of Oracle Bone Script. 1. Cultural Context Oracle Bone Script represents one of the earliest human attempts to record inner states and external experiences through simple visual structures. Its use of body parts, actions, and situational scenes […]

Reading Time: 8 minutesBanksy – Ferris Wheel, 2017, installation view, Barbican Centre, London, England, photo: Ungry Young Man, Banksy – Basquiat – London Barbican – September 2017 – 04 , CC BY 2.0 Art Detective Crash Course     Ready to solve your first art mystery? Use this personalized 20 minute art detective simulator. You’ll receive a magical […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesOverview How often do you reflect on the habits in your everyday life that seem to go unnoticed? In this toolkit, you will focus on these seemingly mundane physical actions and explore how the meaning of these actions changes when you remove these actions from their contexts of productivity or habit. Repetition and duration are […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesDraw It With Your Eyes Closed👀   Summary In this activity, you draw an everyday object with your eyes closed. Instead of relying on what you can see, you use touch, sound and imagination to guide your drawing. This allows you to pay attention to details like texture, shape and weight, which are often ignored […]

Reading Time: 8 minutes“Cinema is a mosaic made of time.” ——Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time (1986)   Many viewers focus solely on the narrative when watching films, yet cinema’s true allure often lies concealed within its audiovisual nuances—a single frame composition, a dolly shot, or a sound effect can all generate distinctive cinematic storytelling. These elements collectively form what […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesLearning Aims You will: Explore your personal memories through an object or photo that is meaningful to you How do objects connect with identity and memory Learn to tell the story of the same object from multiple perspectives 💡Tip: This event is an invitation rather than a request. You can freely choose the content and […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesBefore You Start (about 10 seconds) If needed, open the large-print instructions or the audio guide link included in the kit so you can follow along comfortably. Steps： Gather Your Tools and Materials（about 1 minute） Choose one tool you like (pen, key, toothpick, eraser, blunt scissors, carving knife, etc.) and one material to mark on […]