Emotional Opera / e-motion

Emotional Opera - the many senses of our opera

One way we relate to the world is through our many senses. The five main senses of the human body are sight, smell, touch, sound and taste. We also have other senses which give our life a definite flavour and give us a definite feeling that is emotional and informative in wonderfully mysterious ways.

e-motion

Sometimes learning can seem to be a lonely and long process, so removed from anything relevant to our every day lives. However, when we think of learning utilizing our full range of emotions and in terms of motivational design and playful emergence of creativity, it can become meaningful for us. In designing optimal learning explorations and collaborations, emotional commitments and cognitive processes seem to be key in meaning-making.

If we can make emotional commitments and take emotional risks in the course of engaging ourselves in an activity or a relationship, we are able to see emergent creativity and learning taking place in ourselves.

We have transformed the word emotion into e-motion to accentuate the emotional (or affective) element of learning and motivation, as well as to imply that the "e" can be replaced by a number of playful learning words and concepts such as essence, exploratory, engaging, en-spiriting, effervescent, elastic, eager, to describe the unlimited potentials of playful constructivism. In addition, the japanese word ii means good. Thus, ii-spirit means healthy, vital spirit. ii-sense means a vital sense of design or style and even ii-motion could be motion which benefits us.