writings from the portal
seeing topology, geometry and symmetry through a spinning hoop
embodied learning, proprioception, what movement reveals
creative coding, data viz, experiments that may or may not work
stories from workshops with kids, schools, and neurodivergent learners
people, books, ideas that opened new portals
why 2D math? what can the body discover that the mind alone cannot?
I wish to challenge what's considered intelligent and beautiful. Art can be analytical and math can be aesthetic. Technicalities are beautiful and expression is intelligent. To challenge boundaries that we set for ourselves, that "Oh, I can't do this cause I'm not a math person" or "I'm not a creative person at all!". Let's open the boxes that we put ourselves, our thoughts and our bodies in!
latest posts
Happy Pi Day from me and my hula hoops!
When you spin a hula hoop, you literally spin π. Three hoop moves — isolations, chest rolls, waist hooping — each trace a different face of this infinite constant.
read on substack →A creative-tech, analog/digital, participatory process journey
Designing a community data selfie for a science event → cleaning the data → recreating it in p5.js → writing about the whole chaotic, joyful process.
read on substack →Using the Lego Foundation's Learning Through Play framework to analyse what actually happens when kids play Hoopscotch — and why the submarine metaphor changed how I design sessions.
read on substack →Appreciating the body's intelligence!
At a fire jam, I heard "Triangles are my favourite shape" and my body just... made one with the hoop. An investigation into embodied cognition, trefoil knots and rose curves.
read on substack →Spinning into Infinite Possibilities
The portal, the hoop, the inscribed triangle that started it all. What Spinfinity is, why it exists, and the worlds it's been spinning into.
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