Arts & Aesthetics

Art and design is all around us, from the objects that we make and use, to the complex systems we participate in, to the ideas we imagine and construct. With a foundational focus on learning and the arts, Project Zero has spent nearly five decades exploring skills and capacities that will help learners of all ages notice, understand, and manipulate their designed world.

Resources

Book
Studio Thinking from the Start: The K–8 Art Educator’s Handbook
Published: 2018
Students of all ages can learn to think like artists! Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education changed the conversation about quality arts education. Now,... Read more
Book
Children Are Citizens Book 2017
Published: 2017
People from all around the world know about Washington, DC. They talk about it, write about it, draw it, and make movies and TV shows about it. But almost always, we hear... Read more
Book
Participatory Creativity
Published: 2016
Participatory Creativity: Introducing Access and Equity to the Creative Classroom presents a systems-based approach to examining creativity in education that aims to make... Read more
Book
Maker-Centered Learning: Empowering Young People to Shape Their Worlds
Published: 2016
Maker-Centered Learning provides both a theoretical framework and practical resources for the educators, curriculum developers, librarians, administrators, and parents... Read more
Article
Children Are Citizens: The Everyday and the Razzle-Dazzle
Published: 2016
How do children get to know their city and the city get to know its children? How often are children asked their opinions about their city? The UN Convention on the Rights of... Read more