Celebrates and develops imaginative practices and programs in schools, workplaces and communities; and collaborates with organizations to increase imaginative engagement and innovation.
The lab’s work is interdisciplinary and international in scope. Primarily, the team works with educators, researchers, and school administrators in all learning contexts (from early learning to graduate school and adult education) to improve education by introducing innovative practices and programs that engage the emotions and imaginations of students in learning. They also seek to showcase and disseminate related imaginative work by teachers and outdoor educators, educational leaders, researchers, activists and organizations working for social change, and to highlight the crucial role of imagination in educational responses to the current ecological and climate crises.
- Workshops, seminars, coaching, mentoring, conferences for teachers and administrators, and for any interested organization around increasing imagination and engagement
- Graduate programs in curriculum, pedagogy and educational leadership
- Collaborations in Indigenous education
- Program development, implementation, expansion support: Learning in Depth, Whole school projects, Imaginative Ecological Education, Walking Curriculum
- New formats for planning teaching, resources, online professional development/networking
- Arts and cultural industries
- Education
- Management and business related services
Specialized labs and equipment
- Collaborative space to work on research projects
Private and public sector research partners
- Facultad de Educación y Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Finis Terrae (Chile)
- EDUSPACES – MultiLab, Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione - Fakultät für Bildungswissenschaften, Libera Università di Bolzano - Freie Universität Bozen (Italy)