Colby, great to meet you here. Welcome.
See my reply in the conversation with Maria, above:
"Bringing their own associations and experience in, to add richness to the images is a very sound workshop technique. It might take longer, but it would be so much more grounded in their own sense-making, rather than asking them to 'detour' through the obscurity of pedagogical theory (which very few people have a taste for - even academics, lets be honest ...) and trying to use such abstract terms for their own sense-making.
In other words it might answer your and Nick's challenge to make the 'ivory tower thinking' more accessible - not by editing and reconfiguring it, but by destroying it, and getting the learners to build their own versions of the mapping sheet instead, just from the images. Wonderful idea!"
As you say: "...so that individuals can contribute to the HOW something gets built has been quite key to how they adopt it into practice".
We are trying to find ways /partners / funding to make the footprints more interactive, and more of a creative, building, exercise than a tool-using exercise.
And a spin-off of this reseach and development is a paper on another related theme, 'creative synaesthesia', exploring some of Ramachandran's research on neurology, with links to emergence and embodied learning. The paper is coming out in the Leonardo journal, but only mid-2014. Read more here ..., and if you want a copy of the paper ahead of publication, send an email to one of us (see our emails on the wiki here ....)