The Midas Touch Project, a Liverpool-based transformative learning programme for very young children and their families and carers, aims to enhance children's and adults' sense of awe and wonder in their everyday lives. Using recycled, 'ordinary' objects as tools of play, work and learning, the Midas Touch programme uncovers the unusual within the usual, the strange in the familiar and the beauty within the unsuspecting.
Its approach relies on the metamorphosis of recycled, discarded and 'worthless' objects, their incorporation into challenging learning experiences and the documentation of children's learning for its affects and effects.
Midas Touch is based on an innovative project called REmida, based in the north Italian city of Reggio Emilia, whereby an early years practitioner (pedagogista) and an artist (atelierista) work collaboratively in different ways to enhance children's learning and promote the idea that waste materials can be resources. The Midas Touch team also wanted to adapt some key principles from the Reggio Emilia approach when rolling out its programme. These include:
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