ABSTRACT
This chapter sketches few guidelines for creating environments that support slow looking. Slow looking is an important and unique way of gaining knowledge about the world. It is important because it helps us to uncover complexities that can't be grasped in a quick glance. It is unique because it involves patterns of thinking that have a different center of gravity than those involved in critical thinking, and different as well than those involved in creativity, though it shares many cognitive capacities with both these areas. Slow looking is a learningful behavior. It is propelled forward with the aid of strategies and supports like those just discussed, but it also involves more. Slow looking is not primarily judgment oriented, though its fruits certainly inform good judgements. Rather, slow looking emphasizes deferring judgment in favor of apprehending the complexity of how things are at the moment.
