Chapters

Sensing Nature; Knowing Nature

Exploring tools, process and content

The first part of the book reflects on the Sensing Nature, Knowing Nature workshops I conducted between 2003 and 2007 with children aged 5 to 14. This section explores how children naturally engage with the world through their senses, their playfulness, and their inherent capacity for exploration

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Re imagining Art

Reintegrating cognitive and aesthetic structure

The second part shares how the insights from the workshops were utilized to reimagine art education in schools. It discusses how art can be a means to retain children’s attention to the world around them, nurture their autonomy, and preserve the integrity of their sensory experiences.

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Awakening Numbed Senses

Deschooling the Schooled

This section focuses on work with design and architecture students. It highlights efforts to help them unlearn habitual patterns shaped by formal schooling and to rekindle their natural abilities—to see, to sense, to play, and to reconnect with their innate aesthetic sensibility.

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Musings

A Tentative articulations

The final part is a reflective exploration. It delves into themes of natural sensing, the numbing effects of schooling, the aesthetic sense, cultural erosion, colonization, tradition, and modernity—raising questions and offering insights drawn from lived experience.

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What the Book Explores

From villages and pottery wheels to children’s spontaneous explorations, a map of how beauty lives in the body — and how to recover it.

Awakening Beauty

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