[-empyre-] Fw: Re: prototyping fairy tales

[christopher sullivan]

it is a week, are the prototypes still the point of departure? 
I think I missed the introductions. Chris.


Quoting Adrian Freed <adrian at cnmat.berkeley.edu>:

> At 10:22 AM +0000 3/23/10, Alexandra Antonopoulou wrote:
> >Hello to everybody,
> > the very act of designing and making using the ideas that fantasy can
> offer.
> >
> >In my case, the children rewrite and reillustrate fairytales creating
> contemporary versions based on their own experiences. This enables them learn
> about design and be given voice as moralizers. They have also to design a new
> medium that would host their
> 
> Thanks for describing your interesting work.
> Could you please expand on this idea of giving voice as moralizers. I am
> curious
> if this is an emergent feature of children's play and storytelling or if it
> is a
> particular cultural norm we communicate to children with our stories (created
> by adults)?
> 
> Are adult stories  prototypes that children rework? Are children's stories
> prototypes that adults use for their writing?
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Christopher Sullivan
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School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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