Curb Scholars
Curb Scholar Blog: Learning and Moving Forward
Sep. 23, 2014—This blog post was written by Ben Knight. At the end of this past summer, I completed my first full project with Curb. I had done a few small things around campus and worked in groups to generate ideas, but I hadn’t finished a full-scale creative service project until about three months ago. The project...
Curb Scholar Blog: Reflecting on Utopia
Sep. 16, 2014—This blog post was written by Rachel Anand. For opening retreat, Mr. John Bielenberg gave us the prompt “Utopia” as part of his “Ingenuity Blitz” program. After doing a “Think Wrong” exercise, where we took a word we were given and linked it everything our minds related to it, our team randomly selected two words...
Curb Scholar Blog: A Semester Begins
Sep. 15, 2014—This blog post was written by Grace Cowan. Surprisingly the beginning of the semester has been very busy. During the opening retreat, my group created a project called “DUMBphone” to bring attention to the overuse of smartphones. During our Curb sessions, we presented our idea to the rest of the scholars and received their feedback.
Curb Scholar Summer Blog: Disa’s Eco-Informatics Research in the Cascades
Sep. 9, 2014—This post was written by Disa Yu. I spent this summer in the forests and mountains of the Cascades mountain range in eastern Oregon. We lived in the cabins of the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest and conducted research in the field of Eco-Informatics. I thought that Eco-Informatics was a good example of the interdisciplinary creativity...
Curb Scholars “Think Wrong” at Opening Retreat
Aug. 28, 2014—Before the classes had begun, the Vanderbilt Curb Scholars were hard at work getting their year off to a creative start. They spent a week attending the Curb Center’s Opening Retreat, a series of workshops, exercises, and a field trip to The Farm, an intentional community located in Summertown, Tennessee. From their experiences at the...