Creativity & Innovation

Possibility Books ( also known in prior iterations as Visual Notebooks and ThinkBooks)

Possibility Books (PB) are a brief activity (~10 minutes) in which students/participants are given a single, daily prompt and asked to respond to the prompt through a process of visual mark-making.

Possibility Books have been used in over 23 FYP courses as well as in over 15 additional courses across divisions.

See DocuGuide for faculty wanting to learn more about using Possibility Books in the classroom.

Outcomes

The Possibility Book (PB) Project serves outcomes related to:

Institutional Antiracism Commitment: by introducing modes of learning that have been excluded from traditional, colonial-based academic inquiry, and providing space that centers various identity perspectives as assets.
Course content: by providing space to process ideas and/or reflect on questions, students can become reflexive learners iterating their understandings by connecting the content to themselves, prior knowledge, and nuanced discernment of concepts. (ie: for CC100 classes, PB supports thinking about the nature of academic disciplines and the liberal arts).
Creativity & Innovation: by exploring diverse ways of thinking and knowing, and by practicing divergent thinking and vulnerability.