CoP - Research - HATO

Research into HATO and their collaboration with Primary Schools around Liverpool, using interesting and unique ways to help them learn and create.

As part of the Liverpool Biennale programme, we collaborated with more than 100 pupils from Childwall Sports Academy and other local schools on the Dazzle Island project. The design of the permanent artwork came to life via a curated workshop programme and a bespoke digital tool.


·      ‘We create a toolkit’
·      Letting the students be free
·      Workshops and talks become connecting pieces between us and them.
·      Help students discover and learn about Sir Peter Blakes’ Dazzle Ferry
·      Experimenting with ideas of form and composition
·      Worked with students
·      Related to the different rules and activities associated with their school playground.
·   Children created their own coded games and signs.

Constructivism in relation to Hato

·      Constructing new representations and models of reality as a human meaning-making venture, with culturally developed tools and symbols.

·      Students perceive their environment in ways that may be different from those intended by educators.

·      Relevance emerges from the learner.

·       Helping students connect their current ideas with new ones.

·       active learners interacting with their surroundings.