Corrina Hui

Making Math Relevant Through Social Justice and Design

[corrhui]

Thank you for your work (+ for sending these awesome stickers), @jessicasabogal @akonadi_oakland ! #whitesupremacyiskillingme #writeback #decolonizeyourhistory #equity #dsxoak From @jessicasabogal artist statement on @akonadi_oakland website, "Other people...are deciding things for us: our histories, what gets passed down, what gets shown in the media, etc. - So this poster is about that. It urges us, as artists and thinkers and students, to speak out, to make a place for ourselves in history. To demand it. To show up. To not get written out."

[corrhui]

This Book is a Planetarium...and other extraordinary pop-up contraptions

I'm excited for This Book is a Planetarium coming out in October. I love that it will support explorations of math, time, light, sound, science, art, design, and making. I also love that everything is made of paper, which is a relatively accessible medium. 

[corrhui]

Stoked to discover this artist/designer and tinkerer and can’t wait for her new book, This Book is a Planetarium (out Oct. 3rd!) 

[austinkleon]

Children should be able to do their own experimenting and their own research. Teachers, of course, can guide them by providing appropriate materials, but the essential thing is that in order for a child to understand something, he must construct it himself, he must re-invent it. Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand that which we allow him to discover by himself will remain with him visibly…

Jean Piaget (via austinkleon)

[corrhui]

Take This Hammer: Art + Media Activisim from the Bay Area at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (@ybca)

Take This Hammer: Art + Media Activism From the Bay Area was an exhibit curated by Christian L. Frock at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts from March 11-August 14 2016. The Curator Statement explains that this exhibit "reflects on the Bay Area’s unique legacy as a center for social justice movements and considers the ways in which the tools of visual art and performance are amplified via the internet by artists, technologists and organizers to leverage global public dialog." Christian L. Frock included Bay Area change makers whose work is "aimed at impacting important social issues, including racial justice, wealth disparity, gentrification, displacement, police brutality, the prison industrial complex, immigration, gun violence, war, and the environment."

Some of the data visualizations featured in this exhibit that I'd like to use with my students this year include:

Immersive data from The Liberator Cycle, 2016. Jeremy Mende. mendedesign.com

Compilation of Maps: Ellis Act Eviction Map, No-Fault Eviction Map, Loss of Public Space Map, Map of Killings by the SFPD and OPD, 2016.  Anti-Eviction Mapping Project. antievictionmap.com

Out of Sight, Out of Mind- Immersive Data Visualization, 2016. Pitch Interactive. pitchinteractive.com

Bay Area Melting Pot: A Region of Immigrants, 2016. Stamen. stamen.com

[corrhui]

Three-part Revisionist History Mini-Series

According to its website, Revisionist History is a podcast from Malcolm Gladwell and Panoply Media that "will go back and reinterpret something from the past: an event, a person, an idea. Something overlooked. Something misunderstood." 

This three-part Revisionist History Mini-Series examines how well America is making use of its human potential, opening up college to poor kids, and educational philanthropy.

Malcolm Gladwell is a great story teller and each podcast is illuminating. The statistics that he cites and features on the webpage for each episode are powerful and great resources that I can use with my students as inspiration for their Superhero Projects and/or for our weekly Daily Spark about social justice/equity.

Episode 04: Carlos Doesn't Remember

Episode 05: Food Fight

Episode 06: My Little Hundred Million