Hands-on activities and resourcefulness build innovation

The School of Intuition enhances traditional academic learning, emphasizing resourcefulness, intuitive problem solving, kinesthetic learning and spatial-mechanical aptitude to spark greater ingenuity, imagination and creativity.

The School of Intuition provides classroom coursework, educational workshops, talks and presentations for the public. Students learn Ned Schaper’s life-long daily practices, Available Resource Technology or A.R.T., to generate completely original ideas to help them solve all kinds of personal and societal problems.

The Universe Within world-building course

The Universe Within is an educational course created by nonprofit Mat Bevel Company that builds students’ creative thinking abilities by teaching specific hands-on skills to help them tackle life’s challenges with greater imagination. The Universe Within is a grassroots solution to a national creative intelligence deficit that increases student capacity to innovate, problem-solve and navigate unknown situations through original thinking exercises and out-of-the-box approaches.

Inspired by Mat Bevel Company President Ned Schaper’s world of Beveldom–a fine-art mechanical land teeming with inspiring characters–students participate in a five-part introduction to world-building including: The Daily Doodle, Corrugated Headgear, The Art of Kinetics, Story Book and Pedestrian Carnival & Group Exhibition. The five modules teach students how to: a) record and connect ideas on paper, b) cultivate and model desirable character traits c) imagine and build spatial, mechanical structures, d) analyze and improve their creative process and e) present their ideas in a cohesive way to others.

The course has been designed to increase student creativity in math and science using educational best practices and creative play. Students play the role of a character in a world of their own making while learning geometry, physics, math and scientific observation from the things that they create.