What if I could change size?

Last year I completed a DLaB Erasmus course called Technology Outdoors, which aimed, amongst other things, to promote digital learning across the boundaries of physical spaces, across curriculum subjects and across languages and cultures, to facilitate collaborative learning across national boundaries. This year's course is STEM to STEAM, which is adding the arts to science, technology, engineering and maths building on the technology outdoors by promoting real world exploration and creative problem solving through physical and digital making.

I've just completed week one and explored the concept of art helping us to visualise scientific data - looking at the hidden world. On a wonderful, but time consuming wander through amazing photograohic magnifications, I stumbled across the former biologist Robert Rock Belliveau, who on retiring started taking amazing magnified photos of fruit and vegetables. There's a great article here.

Throughout June, I have also been participating in a challenge to create a daily direct watercolour, that is a painting without any under drawing. More info here. Combining that with this course, I created this direct watercolour painting from a magnified image of a corn husk with silk from an image by Robert Rock Belliveau. (sorry the photo has lost some of the vividness of the original)

I can see this sort of activity as a great jumping off point into further art and/or science.

If you are interested last year's DLab posts are here:

Technology Outdoors: Creating Trails
Technology Outdoors: Art in the Environment
Technology Outdoors: Wild Writing
Technology Outdoors: Science Outdoors

Now it's time to start week two on design thinking.