Orchestrating Engagement in Multimodal Deconstructions at an Art Gallery: Affordances of Spaces and Tools

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  In Roundtable Session: Contemporary Discussions in Learning Environments Research 2 (Table 4)

Abstract

What if we designed learning environments which afford engagement with ‘sight’, the act of seeing? This study aims to present the process of developing a multimodal learning environment at an art gallery museum to support creative movement and dynamic storytelling as a way of looking and engaging with a modern art painting. More specifically, in this paper we aimed to explore the affordances of a multimodal learning environment that facilitates creative movement and dynamic storytelling while engaging with the deconstructed space of an art painting. Findings revealed that various techniques and tools were employed while interacting with the art gallery spaces which afforded open-endedness, non-linearity, pluri-perspectivism and future orientation.

Author

• Agni Stylianou-Georgiou, University of Nicosia