Making Across the Curriculum Conference and Pre-Conference

What are the roles of power, participation, and representation in design and making? What does it mean to be ethically empowered? Project Zero researchers Edward P. Clapp and Sarah Sheya, in collaboration with DC educators have begun exploring these questions through the lens of maker-centered learning. In this session, they’ll take a deeper look at how maker-centered pedagogy can support young people to be ethically empowered and develop a critical sensitivity to the design of objects and systems, particularly systems of power and access. They’ll introduce new Agency by Design tools and share documentation from several different classrooms participating in Agency by Design’s Making Across the Curriculum Project.