Play this game with Creative Arts Students. It will help them imagine a possible alternate world. This will facilitate compassion and tolerance of other ways of being
Begin this exercise by asking the class questions that will make them curious as to how the accepted Art World developed.
- What would have happened if the Medici Family had not benefactored Michelangelo?
- What would the world be like today if Hitler had not eschalated World War Two? Would the Art world be the same?
- If the Pyramids had not been built. Would Egypt be different today? If slavery was not allowed at that time could they have been built or would their nature be changed?
- What would Australian Art be like if white man had not invaded Australia? What if some other nationality had gotten here first?
- How would the Art World have developed if buying and selling Art was banned?
- Would the development of Art be different if Artists were treated like Living Treasures and did not have to worry about making a living?
- What would Art be like today if Feminism had not become an accepted way of thinking? Would Art be different?
- Would the Art World be the same today if the camera had not been invented?
- Would it be different if travell hadn't become so cost efficient and easy?
- Computing? Has it made a difference to what could happen?
- What about the printing press did the invention of this technology change the world and thus the Art World?
Keep on brainstorming. You will find that the factors which influence the shaping of history are inexhaustible.
Give the students a framework for investigation.
So you could pose a hypothetical framework for investigation such as.........
- Pretend you are Michelangelo and you don't have the funds to keep sculpting - what will you do?
- You live in the 18th Century and you have a great idea - how will you tell others about it?
