Tate Modern Early Years & Families Learning Programme
I recently completed a short piece of data analysis work for the Early Years and Families Learning Programme at Tate Modern. This involved an analysis of existing feedback and documentation around the Intergenerational Making Studio - a drop-in space located by the Turbine Hall. The studio is an artist-designed environment, (informed by key concepts in the Reggio Emilia approach) which responds to themes raised by current commissions and exhibitions at the museum.
The studios produced for 2019-20 included The Elements by Albert Potrony, inspired by materials and ideas from the Olafur Eliasson: In real life exhibition and the philosophies behind Loose Parts Play; and Making Protest by Jessie McLaughlin, which took as its starting point Kara Walker’s Hyundai Commission Fons Americanus and the #RhodesMustFall movement. Families were invited to explore, create, destroy, read and debate what radical change they would like to see.
Images by Rob Harris