Show and Tell
(2007)
Show and Tell was specially developed as an adaptable workspace during Hidden Curriculum. Hidden Curriculum consisted of a series of workshops by Anette Krauss with two groups of 16-18 year old students, looking at the unrecognised and unintended knowledge, values and beliefs that are part of the learning process in schools.
Show and Tell enabled a space that could evolve with the Hidden Curriculum, reflecting and questioning the students’ actions and investigations. The space was cloaked in three large sets of layered curtains that surrounded the room and coiled into the centre. The curtains were made from materials of different weights and opacity: coloured translucent plastic, wool and hessian. The students could move the curtains around to easily and quickly alter the space: overlaying them to different degrees, opening up and enclosing areas to create different levels of openness and privacy, enabling them to decide how public certain moments and parts of the project could be. The space was also furnished with a set of tables, cupboards and seats that were constructed out of joined together parts of other existing furniture, which could also be re-configured and separated depending on different needs and situations. These adaptable elements offered the students multiple possibilities to change their environment, both responding to and affecting their activity and interaction.
Installation views, Hidden Curriculum, Casco, Utrecht
