Colour Literacy Foundations
The Colour Literacy Project is an educational initiative to build a bridge between art and science (and beyond) for 21st century colour education, while addressing common misconceptions and misinformation about colour. Our website is under development, and will contain state-of-the-art, introductory, interdisciplinary information and materials on the art, science and industry of colour within a multi-disciplinary framework, for teachers of all education levels.
We are re-framing colour education to focus on experiential learning, incorporating up-to-date scientific discoveries and technologies, to make it relevant for our 21st century experience of colour.
We have created three foundational series for teachers.
Eye Opener Series:
Starts with seeing and noticing colour variations and introduces basic ideas about how we see colour; establishes the importance of how colours are always viewed in context; solidifies being able to describe colour with all its attributes and explores the 3-dimensional nature of colour spaces.
STEAM Series:
Explores the spectrum and relations between light and colour; compares various colour mixing processes; introduces colour perception; explores various types of complementary colours; introduces contexts for device-dependent colour.
Living in Colour Series:
Explores our cultural and emotional connections to colour, the ways colour plays a role in our personal and cultural identities, and ways that colour helps us to make sense of the world around us.
We are currently testing our curriculum, and will post exercises and teacher resources. Our first school to complete our re-framed introduction for colour is St. Teresa’s RCP School, Irlam in Manchester, UK. They were so inspired by the curriculum, they chose to celebrate International Colour Day 2022 and 2023 with school-wide colour activities!
