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Cultural Evolution – part 1: competition, cooperation, and the human tendency to copy others without knowing it!
Part I of a three part animation series on Cultural Evolution, I created in collaboration with Michael Muthukrishna.
Michael Muthukrishna is an Associate Professor of Economic Psychology at the London School of Economics (LSE). His other affiliations include Associate of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, Affiliate of the Developmental Economics Group at STICERD, and Technical Director of The Database of Religious History.
Michael’s research focuses on answering three broad questions: (1) Why are humans so different to other animals? (2) What are the psychological and evolutionary processes that underlie culture and social change, and how is information transmitted, maintained, and modified? (3) How can the answers to these questions be used to tackle some of the challenges we face as a species? He uses a two-pronged methodological approach to answer these questions, combining mathematical and computational modeling (evolutionary models, social network models, etc.), and experimental and data science methods from psychology and economics. He uses the “Theory of Human Behavior” that emerges from this approach to tackle a variety of related topics, including innovation, corruption, the rise of large-scale cooperation, and the navigation of cross-cultural differences.
Making Sense of Strategy
In wrestling with the work of Getting Strategic about Peace and Social Justice I made an animation. You can watch it here:
If you’d like to read the transcript you can visit medium:
playing with textiles
A variety of products and designs available to print on demand at https://society6.com/soobsart and https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/sue-borchardt.html
Backpacks, prints, beach towels, duvet covers, curtains, ipad cases!
narrowing the knowing doing gap
what is LILA? – an animation on Harvard’s Learning Innovations Laboratory
An animation on Project Zero’s Thinking Routines.
I created this animated short in collaboration with thinkers at Harvard’s Project Zero, describing the thinking routines they have developed as part of their research and practice over the last few decades.
what is Project Zero? an animated short video on Harvard’s Project Zero.
Created in collaboration with Project Zero researchers, this animation offers one window into the research and practices of this long-lived and vibrant community of curious educators and learners.
Cardboard Boat Races — Saint Anne’s School of Annapolis
A time-lapse video of seventh graders at Saint Anne’s School of Annapolis testing out their creations. This year, they explored the phenomenon of buoyancy and Archimedes’ principle in building and racing boats out of cardboard.
Elevator Pitch — my 2013 mission
This animated short is my 2013 elevator pitch.
Underlying the content is a theory of learning and a philosophy of education: I believe that each of us constructs what we know (and do) from the ground up. I think of this literally, meaning that by engaging with ideas through conversation and play, we grow fresh connections in our embodied brains. Our habits of inquiry and exploration allow us to adapt to a changing world (and an aging body) and so are essential to a happy and healthy life.