One Hundred

Senior Project Advisor

Thomas Hummel

Document Type

Project

Publication Date

Winter 2025

Keywords

100, elementary education, creativity, newness, exploration, children, childhood, pedagogy, daily, impractical, creation, Montessori, curriculum, lesson plans, preschool, Bellingham Public Schools, collaboration, kindergarten, abstraction, dialogue, curiosity, discovery, failure, forgetting, memory, practice, praxis, method, adaptability, flexibility, improvisation, sustainability

Abstract

One Hundred reclaims the imaginative potential of daily life. An enactment of generative interdependence and sustainable unknowing, One Hundred seeks the boundless creativity of youth through improvisational inquiry and selfless making. Fulfilling a list of wishes and directives of four-to-eight-year-old students from five Bellingham preschools and elementaries, the project documents one hundred consecutive days of practicing newness. Between November 20, 2024, and February 27, 2025, the author was given something new to try or make or do each day. She did not know her day’s work in advance. Each morning, she opened an envelope prepared by her advisor and adapted. If given a familiar task, she made it new. If given the impossible, she made it possible. Completed amidst a hectic schedule of coursework and volunteer employment, the questions posed by One Hundred are immense. How do we maintain daily transformation? How do we redefine routine? How do we cultivate creativity in the face of deadlines and depletion? While its answers are many, what One Hundred insists upon is remembering what we’ve lost along the way.

[A transcript to the video is included below as a supplementary file.]

Department

Honors

Type

Text

Rights

Copying of this document in whole or in part is allowable only for scholarly purposes. It is understood, however, that any copying or publication of this document for commercial purposes, or for financial gain, shall not be allowed without the author’s written permission.

Language

English

Format

application/pdf

Additional Files
VanLandingham H capstone transcript.pdf (110 kB)
Transcript to video for One Hundred
Link to Full Text

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