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Centre for ImAginAtion a catalyst for change
Contribute financially: * * * *
Building renovation will cost $300,000 USD Donations in all amounts help support programs and cover building expenses. Plans are in place so that work can begin immediately. Full renovation can be completed in under six months.
Contribute with your time & expertise: * * *
Mentor a student project online Share your wisdom in a one-time talk Spend time with us through a themed residency
For updates on events, follow us on Instagram @cfiwoodstock. Educators largely operate within an industrial paradigm, the very model that gave birth to the problems our children will have no choice but to navigate. They enter adulthood in an interdependent, highly connected world. Tides of seawater, human migration, and racial nationalism are on the rise, to name just a few issues. Our islands are both literally and figuratively disappearing. Our education needs to reflect and respond to the world we now inhabit.
SHARE IN THE WORK OF IMAGINATION We value your ideas, your experiences, your connections, your time, and your resources. Contact Amy Seefeldt at imagination@woodstock.ac.in
fall, 2017
trimester i July-september
trimester ii october-december
scholar in residence
focus on water Living Waters Museum is the brain child of Dr Sara Ahmed (‘81), a researcher, gender specialist, and water rights advocate who has worked at the intersection of water, culture, and livelihoods since 1986. Her doctoral research at Cambridge (1991) analysed the politics of purity and pollution in the cleaning of the Ganga at Varanasi.
What does rapid change mean for South Asian identity?
RICHARD DELACY Richard Delacy teaches Hindi-Urdu in the Department of South Asian Studies at Harvard University, as well as a course on contemporary Indian commercial cinema called ‘Bollywood and Beyond.’ He completed his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He studies primarily the postliberalization novel in Hindi, and is interested in the intersection of cultural production, globalization and economic liberalization since 1990. He is also interested in popular cultural production and the world of commercial Hindi cinema in Mumbai.
scholar in residence
SARA AHMED Michael Martin is a museum designer and Ecological Design Thinking consultant from the UK. He will join us to facilitate student contributions to Living Waters and to help us build a prototype of a Living Machine based on the work of John and Nancy Todd.
MICHAEL MARTIN
special projects atmospheric data station Working with Dr. Varun Sheel and the National Physical Research Laboratory, Department of Space, in Ahmedabad, we will install equipment to track and record weather and precipitation patterns, as well as air quality. In this way, the Centre for Imagination will contribute to a growing national (and global!) database. As the data accumulates, students will be trained in using modelling software that allows scientists to predict future patterns based on current trends.
online radio station An initiative of Grade 11 student, Tanishq Daniel, we hope to launch an online radio station this fall. This will allow students to share their original music with the world, as well as facilitating student journalism through newscasts and podcasts.
we will build a living machine
Mary-Rose Abraham, an award-winning, Columbia-trained journalist, will offer a three-week training in radio production for all involved in this exciting venture.
Women in Leadership: An inquiry into the obstacles.
ELEANOR NICHOLSON Eleanor Nicholson served as a school administrator in Chicago for more than forty years, after which she completed stints at both Kodaikanal and Woodstock School as Interim Principal. Eleanor completed her PhD at Loyola University in Chicago and has occupied leadership positions ever since. The central studio in the Centre for Imagination will be dedicated to this inquiry, featuring interactive stations for staff and students, mentoring conversations, film screenings, panel discussions, and more!
student leaders
MARY-ROSE ABRAHAM
design thinking workshop In February, for a week, the Centre for imagination will offer Woodstock staff the opportunity to learn the basics of design thinking, the approach to problem solving that is changing many fields, including education.
MONA NASSERI HARVESTING & FILTERING WASTE WATER THROUGH A SERIES OF MICRO-ECOSYSTEMS
interns:
The CFI depends on our team of student interns for hosting, design, publicity, & mentoring.
Originally from Iran, with initial training in jewelry design, Mona Nasseri earned her doctorate in design from the University of Dundee, in Scotland. She now lectures at Schumacher College in the UK. She will collaborate with Amy Seefeldt in offering this workshop for Woodstock staff.
projects: A team of committed students facilitate all student projects, hosting and mentoring.