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==== Memory Code ==== | ==== Memory Code ==== | ||
- | A term coined | + | Title of the book by Lynne Kelley. Ways of encoding environmental, |
+ | * our memory for geography: we may not be great at remembering list, but we are amazingly good at remembering places. Imagine your house. Almost nobody struggles to remember where the living room, bedroom, kitchen, toilet are, or even the furniture in those rooms. Modern memory champions still use this technique known as a memory-palace. Often the greek [[https:// | ||
+ | * our memory of character: you may forget someones name, but you never struggle to remember someones personality. The expression that indigenous peoples “think stones and mountains are alive” they give them character. | ||
- | ==== Hiking with Monsters ==== | + | ==== Hiking with Monsters |
+ | Notes on a research program in collaboration with Sjef van Gaalen and Creative Coding Utrecht. | ||
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+ | === Stage1: Landscape as Mindpalace === | ||
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+ | //Not only was his knowledge not reproduced in books like the ones he nevertheless wanted to write with me, but it had nothing to do with authorship. Knowledge didn’t originate with individuals, | ||
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+ | === Stage2: Hiking with Monsters === | ||
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+ | ==== Hiking with Monsters at ArtEZ 2020/ | ||
Notes an a student program run by Theun. | Notes an a student program run by Theun. | ||
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* Intro Nederlands landscape. | * Intro Nederlands landscape. | ||
* Set up whatsapp (or otherwise) | * Set up whatsapp (or otherwise) | ||
- | * Field assignment: find a creature that interests you, how would you design a way to communicatie with it? Give it a name that is based on how you communicate with it. | + | * Field assignment: find a creature that interests you, <del>how would you design a way to communicatie with it?</ |
- | * Research assignment: What lived in your area before? What do you think is missing now? What qualities are missing? | + | * Or what qualities does it have? How do you think it finds its way in the world? Are there talents you share? < |
== Session3 Regeneration == | == Session3 Regeneration == | ||
* Regenerative practices | * Regenerative practices | ||
- | * What would your area need? How do you create | + | * <del>What would your area need? How can habitat |
- | * Assignment: what natural cycles are missing, disrupted? How to reconnect. (Any size, tiny ant tunnel) | + | * guest: Vasanth Bosco |
- | * Assignment 4th year: How can local people become active participants in that reconnection? | + | * review assignment last week |
+ | * Field assignment: Take a 1 hour hike from the perspective of your animal. Try to experience the world through it’s eyes, ears, of antennae. Slow as snail, fast as a bird. Report your experience, what do you notice about the area through the animal perspective? | ||
+ | * Design an exercise for others so they can experience the perspective of your animal. How can someone experience the world from that perspective? | ||
+ | * <del>Assignment 4th year: How can local people become active participants in that reconnection? | ||
+ | * Research assignment: What lived in your area before? What traces are left, if any? What do you think is missing now? What qualities does your environment lack? Choose one quality and propose a way it can be regenerated. | ||
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+ | == Session4 === | ||
+ | * take 4 characteristics or qualities from your animal and give them to a class mate. He/she designs a character based on the qualities and gives you back the ' | ||
+ | * take a 1 hour hike with your monster. | ||
== Session4 Rewilding == | == Session4 Rewilding == | ||
- | * What would your area need? Which organisms can regenerate it? | + | * <del>What would your area need? Which organisms can regenerate it?</ |
- | * (Coral, trees, wolves they all create | + | * < |
- | * Assignment: find three spots in your area where you see potential for rewilding. | + | * In groups: what do each of your animals need? Where do their interests match or clash? How could such different needs be brought together? (Multispecies design) (Afterwards give example of Aboriginal totems). |
- | * (What timescale do you design for?) | + | * What timescale do you design for? |
+ | * Field assignment: what natural cycles are missing, disrupted? How to reconnect. (Any size, tiny ant tunnel) | ||
== Session5 Team work == | == Session5 Team work == | ||
- | * Based on previous lesson, work in groups on one organism. Who are the experts? | + | * <del>Based on previous lesson, work in groups on one organism. Who are the experts?</ |
- | * assignment: Design a research team: what kinds of expertise are needed? (What is in it for them?) | + | * <del>assignment: Design a research team: what kinds of expertise are needed? (What is in it for them?)</ |
- | * assignment 4th year: Design a research week. Location. Team. Question. | + | * <del>assignment 4th year: Design a research week. Location. Team. Question.</ |
- | * (Don’t design the team sitting in your classroom. Do it on location!) | + | * <del>(Don’t design the team sitting in your classroom. Do it on location!)</ |
+ | * < | ||
+ | * Group: Choose one of your animals. Make a list of the qualities of your animal. Give them to an other group and they will design a creature (character design, mythological being) based on those. < | ||
+ | * field assignment: hike with your Monster through your area: what do you notice from the monsters perspective? | ||
+ | * Assignment 4th year: How can the monster / creature activate local people? Or more formally: how can locals people become active participants in reconnecting environmental processes? | ||
== Session6 Animals as guides == | == Session6 Animals as guides == | ||
- | * What qualities do animals need to thrive? (Elephants memory, bioindicators, | + | * <del>What qualities do animals need to thrive? (Elephants memory, bioindicators, |
- | * Ecologist can see this area needs… wolves. (Trophic cascades) | + | * <del>Ecologist can see this area needs… wolves. (Trophic cascades)</ |
- | * Assignment: (I give 5 animals and plants) in groups: what are the qualities of those animals? | + | * <del>Assignment: (I give 5 animals and plants) in groups: what are the qualities of those animals?</ |
- | * Assignment after class: translate those qualities into a human being a character. | + | * <del>Assignment after class: translate those qualities into a human being a character.</ |
- | * (In what ways does that help to think about the role of animals, in what ways does it hinder?) | + | * <del>(In what ways does that help to think about the role of animals, in what ways does it hinder?)</ |
+ | * Choose an environmental process in your neighbourhood. Translate its properties into a being. Assignment: ask someone else to hike with that Monster. | ||
== Session7 == | == Session7 == |