Unknown Outcomes was a series of participatory workshops, first presented as part of the Material Culture in Action Conference (2015) and were formulated in response to archival research into the experimental practices emerging from Ted Odling’s Section V of First Year Studies at Glasgow School of Art (1965-mid 1970s). The historical Section V challenged GSA’s own position on what a creative education might necessitate, critiquing the institutionalised teaching norms of its time. Section V encouraged first year students to question fundamental assumptions about making by challenging the faculties of perception as a means of understanding how this experience may be deconstructed, transposed, and communicated via other sensorial registers. This paper reflects on our restaging of Odling’s teaching ideas and principles in the form of the Unknown Outcomes workshops to explore how the materiality of the archive can be used as a critical tool, a catalyst, and a point of departure from which to develop generative critical positions that relate to current educational contexts. We ask how might Odling’s practice—through the archive— be given new material potency for current students to explore and identify the pedagogical norms rooted within their own learning contexts?