This may seem a surprise but here is an example of experience design beyond experience. Composed when Beethoven was completely deaf, it begins as emotional conflagration – a strident unison of G’s extends over three octaves, and one and one-half bars which are followed with one hundred and twenty-six consecutive bars noted as forte or beyond. Its structure is comprised of stark, sometimes toothed contrasts where sections break off precipitously; cool tension subsides into warmth. The Grosse Fugue is an acoustic experience to which Beethoven had no direct access; it maps creative experience beyond the senses.

The future of education? At EDG we work with themes not disciplines and to do some basic reading check out Mark C. Taylor’s op-ed piece in The New York Times. That’s the future and that’s EDG.

Ronald Jones