Booking and Leasing: Cojiform supports a wide range of organizational, educational, and personal-growth goals.
Below you can learn about the components that make up Cojiform interactive exhibits, workshops, pop-ups, educational modules and so much more. Cojiform has been enjoyed by about 20,000 people of all ages and abilities, in a broad range of settings. Please email Isaac Bower to discuss bringing Cojiform into your setting.
Cojiform Components
All Cojiform exhibits, workshops, and pop ups are centered upon kits of the interactive Cojiform sculpture parts. Kits sizes are customized to meet the needs of each situation, with differing quantities of the three Cojiform shapes called L, Y, and S. Reach out to discuss bringing Cojiform into your setting.
Other elements include: printed folio books, signage and photo prints, larger free-standing fixtures, looping video content, and photo-stations.
In addition to these physical components, Isaac Bower can be booked for in-person workshops or pop-ups. When this isn’t practical, support materials are available to help staff at the leasing organization learn how to facilitate programming.
Leasing and Booking
Cojiform events, exhibits, workshops, or kit leasing begin with emailing founder Isaac Bower to discuss your needs and budget. Cojiform can be enjoyed with or without in-person facilitation from Isaac. Team leaders, museum staff, educators, librarians, and others can create their own activities with support materials (provided on request) such as prompts, challenges, and other structured activities.
Cojiform installations can be small and simple, such as a kit of fifty parts and a book on a table. Larger installations (at museums or conferences for example) can be created with freestanding fixtures and signage, a photo-station, and a hundred or more Cojiform parts.
Kits are sized to match the group and table sizes of a given setting. A kit can be leased for a particular event, such a team building session, or for a longer time frame, typically 2-4 weeks. For settings like schools, libraries, corporations, or senior centers, leasing a kit for several weeks allows for a mix of informal, walk up engagement and/or structured group activities.
Using a Kit
Informal and Self Guided
The fundamental use of the kit is simple: place the parts on a table, credenza, etc. and allow people to engage in their own ways. This “walk-up” mode offers immersive engagement in brief or long sessions that are tactile and creative, often yielding surprising epiphanies. With minimal noise and no mess, Cojiform sparks creativity, persistence, mindfulness, and collaboration in almost any setting. A printed folio book, banner sign, or pull-up sign can give participants inspiration and direction.
Guided Engagement
Whatever the activity, some people enjoy open-ended, self-guided exploration; others prefer working toward a known outcome with instructions. For the later, there are resources including books, signage and detailed tutorial videos. Participants can access the videos using their smartphones or via a device set up by the host institution. These resources are also useful for museum staff, educators, librarians, etc. who may be helping end users to enjoy Cojiform.
Structured activities
For classrooms, work teams, or any group, Cojiform can offer varying degrees of structure. Support materials are available to help hosts use prompts, challenges, collaborative goals, and other strategies. Hosts are also encouraged to invent their own ways to center Cojiform in group activities.
Founder Isaac Bower is happy to work with hosts to design relevant programming. When possible, Isaac loves to appear in-person to facilitate programing. Please email Isaac to discuss bringing Cojiform (and Isaac!) into your setting.
Cojiform has been enjoyed in places such as: The 2023 ATE PI Conference, MuseumLab, The Montshire Museum of Science, The Frick Environmental Center, The Design Alliance, Michael Baker International (Moon, PA campus) Dentons Cohen and Grigsby, The Susquehanna Art Museum, The Carnegie Science Center, The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, The Hoyt Art Center, The Ellis School, The Ephrata High School, The Carnegie Libraries of Pittsburgh, (including at L.A.M.P, The Library for Accessible Media for Pennsylvanians), The Western Allegheny Community Library, The Eva K. Bowlby Public Library, The John Paul Plaza (senior residency), Assemble, The Crossroads Foundation, Maker Fair, The Polish Hill Arts Festival, and more!