“The Sculpture Kit”: Material Pedagogy and Entangled Making

Playing, making, and learning are increasingly understood in arts education and the wider social sciences as overlapping rather than distinct. This resonates with new materialist philosophies applied in a visual arts context, which present the material encounter as a means of accessing information about the world, positioning it as a form of pedagogy. “The sculpture kit,” a collection of six materials (developed collaboratively with a young child and then tested with larger groups of adults and children) responds to this condition. In this article, I present the kit as a method to facilitate experiences of “entangled making,” acknowledging materials’ pedagogical role in observing exchanges of knowledge between children and adults, materials, and humans.