Great Boston Kite Festival: Kite-making Workshop
Discipline: Educational curriculum
From the earliest days of his career, Michael was deeply interested in the pedagogical aspect of exhibit design. Cutting his teeth as the first Design Director of the Boston Children’s Museum, Sand and his team immersed themselves in the studies of Piaget, John Dewey, and other education scientist-theorists.
In the mid-’60s, Sand went from the Children’s Museum to the nonprofit Educational Development Center, founded by cognitive psychologist Jerome Bruner. As EDC’s Art Director, he helped shape a range of groundbreaking educational curriculum that reached hundreds of thousands of children across the country.
Sand remained a firm believer in learning by doing throughout his career. His exhibits encouraged children and adults to be active participants in their own learning, interacting with physical spaces in ways that created new meanings and understanding.
