I found this video of Tibetan monks tinkering with cardboard automata by noticing my friend Eileen Clegg had made a comment on Tiff von Emmel’s blog back in April, 2009. The cardboard automata is a “tinkering activity” developed at the PIE Institute at the Exploratorium (check out the PIE IDEA Library). This is one of three videos with the monks posted by The Learning Studio at the Exploratorium from a project they did in Sarnath, India in January, 2009. You’ll find more backstory on The Learning Studio blog.
Exploratorium Learning Studio gets Tibetan monks in India tinkering with cardboard automata
Posted by Claudia L'Amoreaux on July 10, 2010
https://sightingsbyclaudia.com/2010/07/10/exploratorium-learning-studio-gets-tibetan-mo/
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Anonymous
/ July 10, 2010It’s great to see what they imagine after understanding how the physics work.
JJVentrella
/ July 16, 2010Loved this vid. Made me smile. Beautiful meditative sculptures.