Join us at the 2025 Playground for a transformative faculty program that explores these parallels. We invite participants to reimagine their classrooms as liminal spaces where conventional rules are temporarily suspended in favor of alternative logics and collaborative meaning-making. Through hands-on workshops and reflective exercises, faculty will explore how intentionally constructed boundaries can create environments for radical imagination and learning. We will experiment with ideas like the magic circle, staying in the gap, threshold learning, and teaching with chance.
Amidst challenging contexts, this playful program offers space to embrace uncertainty as a generative force in teaching, while interacting with an interdisciplinary group of colleagues. Participants will leave with renewed pedagogical approaches that balance structure and spontaneity, protection and challenge.
Please submit your application by Monday April 28; we will notify you on Friday May 2. We will then be in touch with you about first steps the following week.
Asynchronous activities:
- Tuesday May 13, Wednesday May 14, Thursday May 15, and Tuesday May 19
Synchronous sessions:
- Friday May 16, 9:30am–12pm
- Monday May 19, 9:30am–12pm
- Wednesday May 21, 9:30am–12pm
- Thursday May 22, 9:30am–12pm
In addition to the synchronous sessions, which occur on zoom, there will be asynchronous activities which open on May 12.
Because of the new academic calendar, please note that our synchronous time in the Playground will be shorter this year. As such, the stipend amount has been adjusted as well. Eligible faculty qualify for a $500 stipend.
