SEAT OF LEARNING is a translucent, architectural, art installation centered around how we learn and re-learn from material objects. Learning is much like growing and shedding skins, expanding as each skin stretches over the last or reducing as old layers are teased apart to release, re-define, forget or acknowledge the past. The overlapping architectural form of SEAT OF LEARNING mirrors this layered density and sharp clarity of memory that is prompted by common objects. Over the past 2 years, Lackey and Lehn have interviewed close to 70 individuals who responded to public calls asking them to bring an object that has been meaningful over time. Each person was interviewed, answering questions about their object and what they have learned from it. A selection of 32 objects and edited audio stories and videos are sequenced throughout the installation. The audience can move or be still as they delve into private thoughts and collective awareness emanating from the potency of objects.